Velmezova, Ekaterina (Ed.): Contributions suisses au XVIe congrès mondial des slavistes à Belgrade, août 2018. Bern 2018. Plusieurs aspects de la slavistique helvétique sont représentés dans cet ouvrage, préparé à l’occasion du XVIème congrès mondial des slavistes à Belgrade (août 2018): la linguistique, l’histoire, l’analyse littéraire, l’histoire des idées. Les auteurs des articles du recueil sont des slavisants helvétiques des sept universités (Bâle, Zurich, Saint-Gall, Berne, Fribourg, Lausanne et Genève) où la slavistique est enseignée en Suisse. Dieser Band aus Anlass des XVI. Internationalen Slavistenkongresses (August 2018) vereint mehrere Forschungsbereiche der Schweizer Slavistik: Linguistik, Geschichte, Literaturwissenschaft, Ideengeschichte. Die Autoren der Beiträge sind Slavisten der sieben Schweizer Universitäten, an denen Slavistik gelehrt wird (Basel, Zürich, St. Gallen, Bern, Freiburg, Lausanne, Genf). Mehr Informationen
Studi Slavistici XIX (2022) 1 Der diatribische Stil bei Kosmas dem Presbyter und Grigorij Camblak The diatribe is a mode of exposition that grew out of the teaching of the popular philosophers of the Hellenistic and Roman period. It was adopted by St. Paul in his epistles and by the Church Fathers, first of all by John Chrysostom. In a diatribe, the author presents his thoughts in the form of an argumentative dialogue with an imaginary interlocutor; moreover, this dialogue is not narrated, but acted out, the author speaking both on behalf of himself and his opponent. Some characteristic features of the diatribe are the frequent use of the parenthetical φησί ‘says (the imaginary opponent)’, the formulas τί οὖν ‘what then?’ (to introduce a false conclusion) and μὴ γένοιτο ‘far be it from me’ (to reject it), questions such as asὁρᾷς ‘don’t you see?’ and vocatives such as ἄνθρωπε ‘man’. Mehr Informationen
Zwischenzeiten, Zwischenräume, Zwischenspiele Ergebnisse des Arbeitstreffens des Jungen Forums Slavistische Literaturwissenschaft 2017 in Hamburg Dieser Sammelband präsentiert die Beiträge des 15. Treffens des Jungen Forums Slavistische Literaturwissenschaft (JFSL), das 2017 an der Universität Hamburg stattfand. Der Band bietet entlang der thematischen Leitbegriffe Zwischenzeiten, Zwischenräume, Zwischenspiele eine Momentaufnahme der aktuellsten Forschung von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen der deutschsprachigen slavistischen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. Die transgressiven Beziehungen von Literatur und Politik, Text und Medium, Identität und Kultur werden in den Beiträgen aus verschiedenen slavischen Literaturen unter vielfältigen methodischen Ansätzen sowie in breiter zeitlicher und räumlicher Auffächerung untersucht. More information (in german)
Old Russian Birchbark Letters: A Pragmatic Approach. Leiden 2018 Autor: Simeon Dekker This study aims at providing a further linguistic assessment of the birchbark letters in terms of their function and use. The perspective of the study is to view the birchbark letters not just as the texts themselves, but in the light of the communicative event as a whole.
Bounatirou, Elias: Eine Syntax des „Novyj Margarit“ des A. M. Kurbskij Bounatirou, Elias: Eine Syntax des „Novyj Margarit“ des A. M. Kurbskij : philologisch-dependenzgrammatische Analysen zu einem kirchenslavischen Übersetzungskorpus. Bounatirou, Elias: Eine Syntax des „Novyj Margarit“ des A. M. Kurbskij : philologisch-dependenzgrammatische Analysen zu einem kirchenslavischen Übersetzungskorpus. Teil 1: Philologische, sprachkulturelle und lautlich-graphematische Grundlagen. Wiesbaden 2018. Mehr Informationen
Dutch Contributions to the Sixteenth International Congress of Slavists. Linguistics (2018) Volume editors: Egbert Fortuin, Peter Houtzagers, and Janneke Kalsbeek. Every five years, on the occasion of the International Congress of Slavists, a volume appears that presents a comprehensive overview of current Slavic linguistic research in the Netherlands. Like its predecessors, the present collection covers a variety of topics: Bulgarian and Polish aspectology (Barentsen, Genis), Slavic historical linguistics (Kortlandt, Vermeer), pragmatics of tense usage in Old Russian (Dekker), dialect description (Houtzagers), L2 acquisition (Tribushinina & Mak), Russian foreigners’ speech imitation (Peeters & Arkema), corpus-based semantics (Fortuin & Davids) and theoretical work on negation (Keijsper, Van Helden). As can be seen from this list, the majority of the contributions in this peer-reviewed volume displays the data-oriented tradition of Dutch Slavic linguistics, but studies of a more theoretical nature are also represented. More information
Communicative heterogeneity in novgorod birchbark letters: A case study into the use of imperative subjects Author: Simeon Dekker This article first introduces ‘communicatively heterogeneous’ texts from the corpus of Old Rus-sian birchbark letters, in which a switch of author or addressee occurs. Next, it describes in what cases a second person pronoun is used as an imperative subject in Old Russian. Two uses can be distinguished, viz. ‘contrastive’ and ‘pragmatic’. The nature of communicatively heterogeneous texts suggests that they would license a contrastive use of imperative subjects; after all, the switch from one addressee to another is an obvious contrast. In some cases, this hypothesis comes true; in combination with a vocative, the imperative subject is considered to be a cohesive device. In other cases, however, an imperative subject is absent. But how can textual coherence be attained there without cohesion? It is pointed out that letters were often intended to be performed in an oral setting, i.e. read out aloud by the letter-bearer, which makes the use of explicit referential devices redundant. Instead of a cohesive device, the letter’s oral performance is relied on to signal a switch of addressee. Studying the use of imperative subjects can thus contribute to a broader understanding of the nature and role of birchbark letters in connection with their referential or-ganisation. More information
