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Slavia Meridionalis
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ISSN 2392-2400 · Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences · 393 articles in the index
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The Places of Composition of the Gospels according to the Subscriptions in Church Slavonic Tetraevangelia
The Places of Composition of the Gospels according to the Subscriptions in Church Slavonic Tetraevangelia This paper is dedicated to the examination of the so-called geographical modifier present in the subscriptions to the Gospels in handwritten and early printed Tetraevangelia. The four Gospels…
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Some Distinctive Features of the Slavonic Recensions of the Martyrdom of Daniel and the Three Youths
Some Distinctive Features of the Slavonic Recensions of the Martyrdom of Daniel and the Three Youths V. M. Istrin published two Greek (1903) and two Old Slavonic (1893) recensions of the Christian legend about the Martyrdom of Daniel and the Three Youths. I. Franko published some other recensions…
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Eighteenth-Century Popular Ruthenian Religious Songs in the Context of the “Folk Bible”
Eighteenth-Century Popular Ruthenian Religious Songs in the Context of the “Folk Bible” Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ruthenian religious songs played a significant role in popular piety, primarily addressing the spiritual needs of Orthodox communities through accessible language and familiar…
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One Day Some Evil Man: Inferentiality of Expressions within Political and Legal Texts in the History of the Serbian Language
This paper diachronically follows the pragmatic decontextualization of phrases in political and law texts in the Serbian language. We employ the from-function-to-form approach. We analyze phrases containing unspecified referential terms. The corpora consist of (a) charters and letters of Serbian…
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Languages on the Move: The Linguistic Landscape of Moldova in the Second Decade of the 21st Century
For the past thirty years and since its separation from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, language laws and politics have shaped the linguistic panorama of the independent Republic of Moldova. Among the issues examined in the present article are the current statuses of Romanian, the official…
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Facebook Posting as Socio-Political Action in Bulgaria’s Quarantine and Social Distancing Contexts
The paper explores dynamics in Facebook users’ attitudes towards their interaction on the platform before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reports on a questionnaire-based study involving 120 respondents from Bulgaria, where Facebook enjoys an atypical 98% of all social media site visits. The…
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The Nation’s Soul and Motherhood: Conceptualizations of the State as a Body or Person in Slavic L1-ELF Responses
One of the key-metaphors in conceptualizing national identity is that of the nation as a body or a person. Nation-embodiment and -personalization have had a long conceptual history spanning more than two millennia and still figure prominently in present-day political discourse. Both the target and…
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Socio-Cultural Changes in the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language in Ukraine in 2014–2024
The article traces socio-cultural changes in the functioning of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine in 2014–2024 on the basis of legislative documents, works of scholars, articles in the media, and the results of monitoring and sociological surveys. It was found that due to the language policy of the…
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When an Eastern-European Problem Becomes a Pan-European One: The Metaphorical Construction of Europe’s 2022 Energy Crisis
The paper analyses The Economist’s narrative of the 2022 energy crisis in Europe. Conducted within the theoretical framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA), the analysis establishes that The Economist constructs the EU’s image through a DISEASE-centred metaphoric scenario. The EU is…
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On the Categorial Nature of the Generic Concept of Information
This study examines the generic concept of information, interpreted broadly and analyzed in relation to its semantics. The aim is to reveal its logical status, or its categorial nature at the highest level of generalization or abstraction: entitative or attributive; ontological or constructed…
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On (Political) Catchphrases, Winged Phrases and Precedent Lexis: Political Cognition and Special Wordhood
The terms ‘catchwords’ (including ‘catchphrases’ and ‘keywords’), ‘winged words’ (including ‘winged phrases’) and ‘precedent lexemes’ (under which both words and phraseological units are subsumed) are used, supposedly synonymously, in different analytical traditions. As linguistic analytical terms…
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Applied Linguistics: Current Trends and Prospects (International Conference in Sofia University, Bulgaria, 2023)
This review gives an account of an international conference entitled Applied Linguistics: Current Trends and Prospects, which took place on the 18th and 19th of November 2023 at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in Bulgaria. It was organized by the Department of English and American Studies…
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Borders in Flux: The Changing Conceptualization of Borders from a Cross-Temporal and Cross-Cultural Perspective
This study addresses two concerns: (1) how political actors communicate while doing politics, and (2) how language analysis can shed light on the conceptualization and re-conceptualization of a key concept of European politics, i.e., BORDER. Our aim is to analyze and model the variation in the…
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Mine Your Own Business: The Functions of Metaphor in Serbian Anti-Lithium Mining Discourse
From the perspective of Critical Metaphor Analysis, the paper examines how the topic of lithium mining and extraction is metaphorically conceptualized in the Serbian political and media discourse, particularly focusing on the ways anti-lithium activists and politicians use metaphor in the…
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Features of Propaganda Language in the Security Service Documents of the Polish People’s Republic and the People’s Republic of Bulgaria
This article examines the propaganda language used in documents produced by the security services of the Polish People’s Republic and the People’s Republic of Bulgaria. Based on archival materials from 1945 to 1989, the study examines the surveillance of intellectual circles. There is an…
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Talking About the Past that Lingers in Our Present
This article reviews theory-guided research at the intersection of Germanic and Slavic studies that integrates quantitative and qualitative analysis. Showcasing a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship between theory and empirical inquiry, the book details valuable insights that a…
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On the “Articlization” of the Propositional Argument in Bulgarian (in Comparison to Polish)
In the paper I discuss content explication processes in sentences expressing the causal relation in Bulgarian and Polish. The work implements the model of theoretical contrastive studies with a semantic interlanguage. I focus on condensation processes in the causal position. Apart from phenomena…
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Face Threats: A Pragmatic Analysis of Questions in Bulgarian Political TV Interviews
The paper examines types of questions journalists ask politicians in broadcast interviews from the perspective of pragmatic theory, and facework in particular. A small-scale study was conducted to address the research question of how journalists’ questioning techniques function as face-threatening…
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The Weaponization of Lexical Blends in Serbian Politics: Strategies of Discreditation
This study examines lexical blends as tools of political discreditation in contemporary Serbian discourse. Despite being a relatively recent word-formation process in Serbian, blending has demonstrated remarkable productivity in political contexts, generating over 3,000 formations. Analysis of a…
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Voice Onset Time (VOT) in L1 Slovenian Voiceless Stops and Its Transfer to L2 English
The study investigates the Voice Onset Time (VOT) characteristics of Slovenian native speakers producing voiceless plosives in Slovenian and English. Building on foundational research by Lisker and Abramson (1964), the analysis aims to fill a gap in VOT literature regarding Slovenian phonetic…