The Alphabet of Discord Selvelli, Giustina; Keil, Soeren; Dzankic, Jelena
2021, 20211020, 2021-10-20, Letnik:
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What is the relationship between writing systems and nationalism? How can different alphabets coexist in the same country? What is the destiny of the Cyrillic alphabet in Europe?
Giustina Selvelli’s ...original work provides detailed answers to these far-reaching and potentially divisive questions and many more by examining several intriguing debates on topics of alphabets and national identity in a number of countries from the Balkan area over the course of the last 100 years. Following an encompassing perspective on alphabetic diversity, Selvelli, an expert on Southeast European Studies, reconstructs the ideological context of national discourses connected to the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, also taking a look at the Arabic and Glagolitic scripts, and interweaving issues on the symbolism of the alphabet with the complex recent history of the region, marked by the parallel influences of the East and the West. She also sheds light on the impact of a range of alphabet policies on ethnolinguistic minorities, proposing a new definition of “alphabetic rights” with special regard to the multiethnic legacy of the former Ottoman and Habsburg empires.
This comprehensive book makes us discover the privileged role that writing systems played in the region’s delicate post-imperial and post-socialist transitions, leaving us captivated by peculiar stories such as that of the utopian “Yugoslav alphabet”.
Predsednica Bernicka se je zahvalila Petru Bunjaku za dokumentacijo, ki jo je predal Francoskemu komiteju, in za pomoč in nasvete. Potekal bo v podružnici Centre Malesherbes, ki je prostornejši ter ...sodobnejši kot stara stavba Sorbone. D. Bunčić je predlagal, da se zberejo bibliografski podatki referatov, ki so objavljeni po revijah, in se objavijo na spletni strani kongresa; predlaga pa tudi, da za to poskrbijo nacionalni komiteji. S. Nikolova je predlagala, da se za osrednje govorce povabijo pomembni znanstveniki, ki sicer ne delujejo na področju slavistike, vendar pa se ukvarjajo s tematiko, ki je s slavistiko povezana. Po razpravi, v kateri sta U. Büke in B. Suvajdžić predlagala, da bi posterje oprostili plačila kotizacije, je bilo sklenjeno, da se kotizacija ohrani za vse, da pa se določita dve višini kotizacije: ta naj ne bo odvisna od oblike nastopa, ampak od statusa udeleženca; S. Archaimbault je poudarila, da bo o tem mogoče govoriti šele tedaj, ko bo znano, ali so kongres podprli francoski in slovanskí inštituti. V nadaljevanju se je R. Baudin pozanimal, kaj MSK meni o predlogu, da bi na otvoritveno slovesnost povabili francoskega ministra za izobraževanje in s tem oblast opozorili na pomen slavistike, ki je v Franciji sedaj v krizi. 5 Imenovanje predstavnika slovanské države v predsedništvo MSK.
The paper presents a research tool for studying semantic change and polysemy patterns in Russian adjectives and adverbs. It is based on a corpus analysis of high-freqency polysemous units. For each ...of them we describe the meanings it can have, assign to each meaning a corresponding taxonomic class, identify types of semantic shifts between individual meanings (metaphor, metonymy; besides, a full-scale approach reveals non-canonical cases of semantic shifts), describe context conditions of these shifts (semantic and grammatical restrictions on co-occurring words). The results gained from this analysis are implemented in a database, which allows for various generalizations on the regularities of change in adjective and adverb meaning. Several examples are given to illustrate what kinds of queries can be performed on the database. Keywords: polysemy; semantic shift; metaphor; metonymy; semantics of adjectives; Russian language; lexical database.
