Drawing on a cultural perspective from the Global South, Notsie narrative, a West African literary folklore, we explore the high churn rate in the UK financial services industry. Viewing the storied ...accounts of former financial complaint handlers through a Notsie narrative lens, we examine why they frequently quit their well-paid jobs. Our study elucidates how the relentless pursuit of efficiency culminates in managerial tyranny - a set of impulsive and oppressive organizing practices that combine to precipitate high turnover. The wisdom of our Notsie narrative perspective centres on the importance of relationality - the skilled ways of interrelating that create connections between people, and what it means for the Notsie kingdom being doomed to collapse without its people; a wisdom seemingly overlooked and undervalued in western ways of knowing, located in individualism, rationality, and instrumentalism.
Presented are the perceptions of different foreigners who came to Slovene lands in the past or in the present time, as shown in Slovene folk narratives. Despite often stereotyped picture of the ...Others, the research demonstrates an immense complexity of these narratives and the fact that they tell more about Us than about Them. The book ('The Mysteriou Stranger and the Demonic Enemy. “The Other” and Otherness in Slovene Folk Narratives') brings a theoretical overview of the current research on otherness in folklore studies and contextualizes the examples into a wider international folkloristic, anthropological and historical frames. Stories about the Turks, the Napoleon’s French and the Huns reflect an interweaving of historical facts, archetypical imageries of the dangerous Foreigner and ideological influences. These narratives are strongly embedded into the landscape and reinforce the sense of a common identity of its members. The imagery of historic aggressors is understandably quite different from the imagery of Jews and the Roma, with whom the people of the Slovene lands have had a completely different kind of contact.The same goes for contemporary foreigners from other countries. Nevertheless, they all display a high level of stereotypization, generalization and projection of fears upon “the Other”.
The work presents the set of the 300 most well-known and most frequent proverbs, sayings and similar paremiological units in modern Slovene, its theoretical and methodological basis and also how it ...can be used in different phraseological and phraseographical tasks. The concept of the paremiological optimum was developed by Ďurčo and it combines the concept of the Permjakov’s paremiological minimum of the most well-known units with corpus-based and frequency-oriented analyses. 316 Slovene speakers were included in the sociolinguistic test and the top list of the 300 most well-known out of 918 units presented to them was additionally arranged according to their frequency in the FidaPLUS language corpus. Author presents different search procedures which he used in the language corpora. The paremiological optimum is modernized according to the most frequent form of each unit in the Gigafida language corpus. The comparative research of the Slovak and Slovene paremiology based on the paremiological optimum is presented in details. Author also describes how the data he gained can be used in the lexicography.
Divided as it is, philology is constantly improving through the emergence of new interdisciplinary sciences. One among them is ethnolinguistics. It has taken particularly firm roots in Slavic ...studies, especially with the Russian and Polish schools. While the diachronous researches of Nikita I. Tolstoy in Svetlana Tolstaya reach as far back as Slavic mythology, the Polish school, headed by Jerzy Bartmińsky, flirts with cognitive linguistics and is more interested, through its synchronous approach, in contemporary themes. The present monograph aims to evaluate the work carried out in this field to date and to raise awareness of the new interdisciplinary direction, which may link up the ethnologies and linguistics of different directions.
The article tries first to present St. Hieronymus, or St. Jerome, in the Slovene consciousness, as evidenced by rare philological sources. Coincidental sources from older periods and dialectal ...versions of Hieronymus' name: Heron (Heruon), Ronko or Rone, Jeruman, testify that awareness of him in the past was much more alive than it is today. Testimony that recourse to St. Hieronymus was much more alive in the past than it is today was rescued just before falling into oblivion by the third, ethnological section. Today only the church calendar retains the memory of him with faint reminders of former celebrations beside succursal churches dedicated to St. Hieronymus (Petkovec, Čelje, Bošamarin /near Koper/, Topolovec, Tabor above Vransko) and pilgrimages (Nanos, Koritnice near Knežak, Petkovec, Topolovec), and in Ljubljana, the Hieronymus Mass in Latin has been revived every year on September 30 at the Emona baptistery. There is no Slovene or weather proverb connected with St. Hieronymus, although his name day was once marked in wine-growing regions every year as the time by which the grapes were supposed to be harvested. Pilgrims in Koritnice near Knežak and in Celje near Ilirska Bistrica were very impressed by the fact that Vipava grapes were available at pilgrimage churches of St. Hieronymus. The central section is the richest, with an ancient fairy tale and a variety of stories, which are little treasures, memoirs, beliefs and intercessions, in which a pre-Christian mythological layer can be seen under the Christian blanket infiltrated by the modern phenomena. Throwing gifts into the water actually means giving to water, and sweets are an obvious proof of modern social culture, since they were formerly unknown. In fact, the collected folklore field material did not help to resolve the question of the place (and date) of Hieronymus' birth. In addition to the two still vital pilgrimage churches of Hieronymus in Notranjska (Koritnice, Čelje), it is surprising that there is also a church dedicated to St. Anton Puščavnik, and at Tabor near Vransko, an altar to St. Anton Puščavnik was added in the church of St. Jerome and the informants shamelessly but rightly state that believers formerly more often, and today in general, turned to St. Anton than to St. Jerome.
Short folklore forms are diverse group of short folklore texts~some of these are used in everyday communication and are still alive, others are reserved for specific moments~some of them are ...disappearing from our linguistic and cultural environment. Their structure,function, texture and context of use differ very greatly, as well as their length~it may comprise a single word (eg. greetings), one sentence (proverbs, riddles) or a short text (defense, prayer). Book systematically and comprehensively shows the origin, structure and classification system, and aesthetic structures of the most representative short folklore forms: working exclamations, greetings, curses, proverbs, riddles, incantations and prayers.
This book (‘Type Index of Slovenian Folktales – Animal Tales and Fables’) is the first of the comprehensive body of systematization of Slovenian folktales along the lines of the latest, revised ...edition of the Types of International Folk Tales by Hans-Jörg Uther (2004). It includes Slovenian animal tales and fables that have been listed among the first 299 numbers of the international classification system. It contains archaic, internationally comparable material which was previously difficult to access and is now published for the first time in a comprehensive and systematic form. With the transfer of the latest scientific results to the Slovenian research sphere~additional studies and comments~and the application of the international classification system for the classification of material it greatly facilitates further development of the discipline while simultaneously including the Slovenian narrative tradition in a broader international context. Since each folktale type includes examples of folktales the book will also attract the attention of the general public.
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