Issue 1/2018. 60 p. ISBN

Published on 23. 4. 2018



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Culturology

TERRITORIAL IDENTIFICATIONS OF THE GOTTSCHEE GERMANS: DIASPORA – HOMELAND RELATION

Moric, Anja
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Abstract

Based on research carried out among Gottscheers (Gottschee Germans) living in the USA, Canada, Austria and Germany, the article presents the social and symbolic meaning of the places the Gottscheers identify with and that influence their life as emigrants. These places are: the old country – Gottschee (the Kočevska region) and the places that are important for the (re)production of their traditions in their new countries. The article also describes the meaning of rituals, including pilgrimages to the old homeland and meetings in their new countries for strengthening their feeling of belonging to a group within the country of residence, and for the transnational connections between the Gottscheers from the mentioned countries and with the old homeland. The article concludes that the survival of the diaspora depends largely on its ability to maintain its culture and traditions through ritual practices at various locations outside the home country.

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Linguistics

NUMERALS AS FORMATION TOOLS OF THE PRE-ELECTION DISCOURSE IN THE FACEBOOK SOCIAL NETWORK

Kolenčíková, Natália
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The aim of the paper is to characterize basic features of the pre-election media discourse in social networks via pragmalinguistic ideological bases and orientation on selected language components, means, and methods. Social networks are typically characterized by an environment with a persuasive impact on a recipient. In the research, the author complies with the basis of the discourse analysis and answers questions of the traditional linguistics with respect to the relation of language, its use, and the social world. The issue is analyzed and interpreted with focus on a numeral as an independent word class that appears in the specific lingual as well as extralingual context. Material base needed for scientific intent consists of texts published by individual Slovak political parties on Facebook social network before the Slovak parliamentary elections of 2016.

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ABOUT FRENCH-SLOVAK GASTRONOMIC TERMINOLOGY OF MEAT

Košteková, Monika
In: , p. 38 - 51. ISBN:

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The basic requirement for international professional communication is a precise expression and a harmonized multilingual terminology of the domain. The author treats the possibility of establishing such a system of terms in the field of slaughtering meat, its culinary preparation and the preparation of dishes at the base of meat. The aim is to create a French-Slovak system of terms used in the field of gastronomy previously envisaged. Resources can be divided into several groups: recipe books, culinary dictionaries and encyclopaedic works, research, manuals, standards and codes, etc. The research provides not only partially harmonized terminology, but also shows a number of specific semantic and terminological inconsistencies, as well as suggestions for their solution. The various methods and processes necessary to delineate the subject, to create systems of terms and to harmonize terminology will be attempted. At the end, a critical evaluation of results will be proposed from the point of view of confirming or rebutting assumptions about the harmonization and equivalence of the terminology being addressed.

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ADJECTIVE IN SLOVAK LANGUAGE AND VARIETIES OF ITS USE BY NATIVE FRANCOPHONE SPEAKERS

Ráčková, Lucia
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The article deals with adjectives in Slovak language and their use by native francophone learners. Because of migration, many people nowadays need to learn Slovak language. The author recommends to teach it in a contrastive way by comparing Slovak language to a mother tongue – French language. The author presumes that the main sources of grammar interference within this group of speakers are fields of declination, gradation and anteposition of adjectives in Slovak language. A short analysis of authentic texts in Slovak language written by native francophone learners is offered. This analysis shows that the main problem is declination and the use of adjectives declined by the pattern “pekný” in all genders and various cases. In addition, native francophone learners of Slovak language often use adjectives in Slovak instead of using nouns or adverbs.

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