The aim of this paper is to apply an ecocritical approach to the analysis of selected literary passages by Slovene minority authors from Italy. Drawing from ecocritical discourse, the author presents ...a diverse conception of living space before delving into the analysis of selected passages, through which she aims to demonstrate that, in the case of minority literary authors, environmental issues intertwine with questions of identity, as threats to the environment as a living space are closely associated with threats to the ethnic community. This is particularly evident in the case of literary authors from Beneška Slovenia. The author concludes her views with an analysis of literary works by the youngest Slovene authors from Italy, who notably engage with ecological themes extending beyond the confines of the living space of the Slovene minority in Italy to address the global ecological crisis.
The paper discusses the role of the Slovene umbrella organizations SKGZ and SSO in the field of political participation of Slovenes in Italy. From a theoretical point of vhew the authors highlight ...important aspects of the role of umbrella organizations as a view of political participation of national minorities. Moreover, based on the results of an empirical study on representation in organizations of the Slovene community in Italy, they analyse major dilemmas of their functioning related to representation, decision-making processes (in the organization) and leadership and introduce a discussion on possible solutions.
On the 30th anniversary of independence of the Republic of Slovenia, the article offers an insight into the basic social and cultural characteristics of the population of young speakers of Slovene in ...Italy. The authors attempt to define the role that young Slovene speakers in Friuli - Venezia Giulia can play in the common Slovene space and explore their attitudes towards the Republic of Slovenia on an emotional, symbolic and practical level. In doing so, they rely mainly on research conducted over the last fifteen years. They conclude that this population is not fully centred on preserving traditional cultural values and language: it is primarily a population with high human and intellectual potential, which is already an important player in cross-border and other forms of cooperation along the Slovene-Italian border and attaches greater value to multilingualism than to nationality, ethnicity and the development of the Slovene minority in Italy.
The article explores the choice of language code among Slovene writers in Italy. During the last decade, there has been a shift in the choice of language, just like among Slovenes in Austrian ...Carinthia, as some writers choose to write either in their second language or language of the environment or opt for bilingual or translingual writing. In the article, the author connects this phenomenon with psycholinguistic theories on the emotional aspects of language code choice, proving that there are different levels of emotional experience of language, which of course is influenced by very different (both internal and external) factors. Since there are many responses to the literary multilingual phenomenon and because the authors themselves justify their choice in various forms, the article attempts to frame and explain it based on the findings of the psychology of multilingual speakers on the example of Slovene writers in Italy.
The Slovene community in Italy paid the utmost attention to the events in Slovenia at the time of the declaration of independence in June 1991 and the subsequent attack of the Yugoslav People’s Army. ...Drawing from newspaper reports, the article focuses on some major public events, charities and youth activities that were the result of cooperative activities of the Slovene community in Italy during the events in Slovenia. Thereby, the Slovene minority tried to influence the decisions of the Italian and European political leaders to intervene in the event of military aggression and support Slovenia’s independence, while also involving the public and successfully encouraging it to participate en masse in public events and charity campaigns to help Slovenia.
The author examines the data collected during field studies of the Slovenian ethnic minority in Italy, in order to retrace the use of anthroponyms (names and surnames) formed in this region in the ...20th–21st centuries. The processes of Italianization at its various stages, including the period of fascism with the strictest prohibitions on Slavic identity in general, have had a huge impact on the modern composition of the Slovenes’ personal names in Italy. As a result of Italianization, surnames have been changed graphically (written according to the Italian orthography rules), as well as structurally (final letters were added or truncated, Slovenian suffixes were omitted) and semantically (translation was used, the internal form was destroyed while maintaining an approximate phonetic appearance). The names were either translated or used in their Italianized versions. As a result, there is a situation of two names being used in parallel in which the “home name” differs from the one used for the same person in official documents. Currently, the name choice is influenced by other factors, both linguistic and extralinguistic, depending on the life of Slovenes in a non-ethnic (Romanic) environment. On the one hand, there is a desire to regain Slovene names and surnames that has arisen in response to Italianization. On the other hand, this trend is opposed by various kinds of extralinguistic factors: bureaucratic difficulties faced by a person who wants to change documents; low level of national consciousness among some representatives of the national minority; the desire to provide their children with a more comfortable life in a Romanic environment, established traditions (especially for mixed families). When choosing a name for a child, Slovenes have to bear in mind that the name should be euphonious in both Slovenian and Italian (taking into account Italian phonetics). As an alternative, the option of having two names remains very common, nicknames derived from “house names” are still in use and they are opposed to surnames in official documents.
Ob 30. obletnici osamosvojitve Republike Slovenije prispevek ponuja vpogled v temeljne družbene in kulturne značilnosti v Sloveniji manj poznane populacije mladih govorcev slovenskega jezika v ...Italiji. Avtorici poskušata opredeliti vlogo, ki jo lahko odigrajo mladi govorci slovenskega jezika v Furlaniji - Julijski krajini v skupnem slovenskem prostoru, in raziskujeta njihov odnos do Republike Slovenije na čustveni, simbolni in praktični ravni. Pri tem se pretežno opirata na podatke raziskav, ki so bile opravljene v zadnjih petnajstih letih. Z njimi podkrepita domneve, da pri tej populaciji ne gre zgolj za vidik ohranjanja tradicionalnih kulturnih vrednot in jezika: gre predvsem za populacijo, ki predstavlja kadrovski in intelektualni potencial, ki je že zdaj pomemben akter čezmejnih in drugih oblik sodelovanja in pri kateri je vrednota večjezičnosti občutena kot pomembnejša v primerjavi z vrednotama narodnostne ali etnične pripadnosti in razvoja slovenske manjšine v Italiji.
V príspevku je predstavljen razmislek o vlogi slovenskih krovnih organizacij SKGZ in SSO pri politični participaciji Slovencev v Italiji. Na osnovi teoretičnih virov avtorici izpostavljata pomembne ...vidike koristnosti obstoja krovnih organizacij kot mehanizma politične participacije narodnih manjšin. Na osnovi izsledkov empirične raziskave o predstavništvu in organiziranosti slovenske skupnosti v Italiji pa predstavita ključne dileme, s katerimi se soočata SKGZ in SSO pri svojem delovanju, predvsem na področjih reprezentativnosti, procesov odločanja (in organiziranosti) ter vodenja (in z njim povezanega načina delovanja krovnih organizacij), in razmišljata o možnih rešitvah.
Slovenska skupnost v Italiji je budno spremljala dogajanje v Sloveniji ob razglasitvi samostojnosti junija 1991 in napadu Jugoslovanske ljudske armade, ki ji je sledil. Prispevek se na podlagi ...časopisnega poročanja osredotoča na predstavitev nekaterih osrednjih javnih dogodkov, dobrodelne pomoči in aktivnosti mladih, ki so bili plod skupnega nastopa in delovanja slovenske skupnosti v Italiji ob dogajanju v Sloveniji. S tovrstnimi dogodki so predstavniki manjšine poskušali vplivati na odločitve italijanskega in evropskega političnega vrha, da bi intervenirala ob vojaški agresiji in podprla slovensko osamosvojitev. Hkrati so v svoje delovanje uspeli vključiti širšo javnost, ki je množično sodelovala na javnih manifestacijah in v dobrodelnih akcijah za pomoč Sloveniji.
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