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Published since June 20, 1956

Zeitschrift für Slawistik

Journal of Slavic Studies

ISSN: 2196-7016

Edited by: Peter Kosta, Holger Kuße, Christian Prunitsch, Klavdia Smola

About this journal

The Journal of Slavic Studies features research articles both in German and in English on the historical and contemporary state of Slavic languages, literatures and cultures; on their comparison; and their manifold relations with the Non-Slavic world. Literary and cultural studies focus on the　history, poetics and semiotics of literature as well as other types of　media. Within the framework of linguistics, the Journal publishes synchronic, diachronic and cultural-studies oriented contributions. Finally, conference reports and reviews inform about current trends in international Slavic research.

History

The Zeitschrift für Slawistik was published by Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1956, edited on behalf of Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin by H. H. Bielfeldt, R. Fischer, F. Liewehr and E. Winter.

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Volume 68 Issue 3

August 2023

Frontmatter

Publicly Available July 15, 2023

Frontmatter

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Open Access July 15, 2023

War Discourse on TV: A Glimpse into Russian Political Talk Shows (2014 and 2022)

Magdalena Kaltseis

Page range: 375-397

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This article examines the war discourse on Russian television, particularly in political talk show broadcasts aired after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The question of how the two conflicting parties, Russia and Ukraine, are portrayed verbally and visually in these shows is specifically emphasized. While the quantitative analysis traces a massive increase in Russian talk show broadcasts since the beginning of the war, the Critical Discourse Analysis demonstrates which strategies are utilized to demonise and defame the Ukrainian side and to legitimise the war. By comparing the current war discourse with the Ukraine discourse in 2014, this study shows that talk shows have undertaken a significant role in supporting the war and have become a puissant didactic tool to influence and manipulate public opinion by perennially repeating key governmental messages and efficiently orchestrating all visual, verbal, and non-verbal means at their disposal.

July 15, 2023

War, Language and Culture

Changes in cultural and linguistic attitudes in education and culture in central Ukraine after February 24, 2022

Olena Pchelintseva

Page range: 398-418

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of the changes, which have occurred in the linguistic and cultural public consciousness of the Ukrainians since the Russian invasion into Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The research was conducted based on the results of online survey involving respondents from the educational and cultural spheres (teachers, lecturers, museum and library workers, theatrical and literary workers). The choice of this target group was based on the assumption that this professional group is the most sensitive to any changes in the sphere we aim to study. People employed in culture and education are capable of self-reflection, and, in accordance with their professional functions, they have an obvious intellectual, moral, and ethical influence on society, thus bearing the responsibility for the situation and broadcasting their position and attitude to the linguistic situation and culture. According to the results of the survey, many bilingual informants refuse to use Russian, and Russian-speaking Ukrainians attempt to start speaking Ukrainian by studying it independently or taking courses. The analysis showed that Cancelled Russian culture is a phenomenon relevant not only for virtual space. Negative attitudes towards Russia are transferred to classical Russian literature, to Russian-language music content, and, to a lesser extent, to modern fiction. At the same time, a third of the respondents directly or indirectly approve of the use of taboo (swear) words and expressions in public space. The study makes it possible to understand the dynamics of public attitude and the general vector of linguistic and cultural changes.

July 15, 2023

National Identity in Media Discourses from Russia and Ukraine: Amid the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War

Bangjun Xu, Yuan Tao

Page range: 419-439

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This paper, based on the corpus of the news from TASS and UKRINFORM between February 24 and March 5, 2022, investigates different concerns of the two media platforms regarding conflict discourses, and analyzes their different naming strategies of social actors from the perspective of critical discourse analysis (CDA). It is found that Russian and Ukrainian media attempted to construct different national identities for each other through distinct discourse strategies. The Russian TASS named Ukraine a security threat while including Donbas as Russia’s in-group member. It also utilized out-group discourse strategies to exclude western countries, such as the United States, from its friend circle. The Ukrainian media discourse from UKRINFORM , however, grouped Ukraine itself together with western countries allied with the United States while stigmatizing Russia and excluding the Donbas region. The current research shows that the politically driven principle is commonly used in the media discourses from TASS and UKRINFORM as the representative national media of the two countries.

July 15, 2023

Rendition of σώφρων and σωφροσύνη in Ukrainian translations of the New Testament

Oleksandr Levko

Page range: 440-464

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The article focuses on the rendition of the key words of the Christian ethical vocabulary σώφρων and σωφροσύνη in Ukrainian translations of the New Testament in comparison with other East Slavic translations in synchronic and diachronic dimensions. The σώφρων word group covers a range of “intellectual” and “moral” meanings in Ancient Greek, which continue to evolve in Hellenistic Greek to denote ‘soundness of mind’, ‘prudence’, ‘discretion’, ‘good sense’, on the one hand, and ‘moderation’, ‘self-control’, ‘temperance’, ‘restraint’, ‘decency’, ‘modesty’, on the other. Retaining such polysemy in the New Testament, the σώφρων word group also displays various connotations depending on gender, age and social status. The Old Slavonic and Church Slavonic calques of the σώφρων word group mostly accentuate its “moral” meanings, especially the meanings of ‘chastity’ and ‘purity’, which evolve in Christian ascetic literature after the New Testament, although in some cases they retain their primary “intellectual” meanings. The article also explores the use of semantic equivalents of the σώφρων word group in Old Ukrainian, Old Russian and Old Belarusian based on corpora data and historical written monuments. We came to the conclusion that Ukrainian biblical translations of the 19 th to early 21 st century, as well as some Russian and Belarusian translations, generally take into consideration the polysemy of the σώφρων word group in the New Testament, though a great extent of variability of equivalents and a lack of consistent reproduction of gender and age connotations are observed. We argue that the use of certain moral equivalents of the σώφρων word group in modern East Slavic translations (in particular, Ukrainian цнотливий , цнотливість , цнота , Russian целомудренный and Belarusian цнатлівий ) is inappropriate due to the resulting narrowing of their meanings to ‘innocence’, ‘virginity’ and ‘sexual purity’.

July 15, 2023

On the sources and authorities in Planine by Petar Zoranić

Gordana Galić Kakkonen, Nikica Mihaljević

Page range: 465-488

Abstract

The rise of ecological awareness in recent decades corresponds to the emergence of the increasingly reputable and significant field of ecocritical studies, which has resulted in the publication of many valuable literary discussions devoted to the study of the relationship between humanity and the environment. In this context, a visible shift has been made towards the study of earlier periods in literature, so scholars prone to an ecocritical approach in recent years have been discovering great potential in the corpus of older literary texts. Renaissance literature, both European and Croatian, the latter following the literary trends of the time, combined with certain national characteristics conditioned by the socio-political situation of the time, proves to be very fruitful for this type of analysis. This article therefore addresses the Croatian Renaissance text of Petar Zoranić’s Planine to analyze: 1. problems of source and originality, 2. the historical and allegorical potentials of the text, 3. nature as a place of consolation as well as a source of cognition, and for the acquisition of various types of knowledge that were sought after by the people of the Renaissance, 4. the relationships between different types and levels of authority (mythological, folk, ancient, religious, contemporary, esoteric). Also, the author's position is examined, since it changed significantly at that time, especially regarding the writer's anxiety in relation to the authorities, the task and position of literature itself, and the right/yearning for knowledge. All this makes Planine an interesting early modern discourse, very amenable to an ecocritical analytical approach.

Buchbesprechungen – Book Reviews

Open Access July 15, 2023

Ukrainische Gegenwartsliteratur

Yvonne Pörzgen (Hrsg.), Ukrainische Gegenwartsliteratur, München: edition text + kritik im Richard Boorberg Verlag 2022, 133 S. ISBN 978-3-96707-749–0.

Stefan Simonek

Page range: 489-494

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July 15, 2023

Kyivan Rus and Ukraine

Christian Raffensperger. 2023. Kyivan Rus and Ukraine. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 96 S. ISBN 978-3-7772-2301-8

Holger Kuße

Page range: 495-497

July 15, 2023

Sprache und Krieg

Зинкевич, Андрей. 2021. Язык и война. Оккупационная языковая политика в Славии во время Второй мировой войны. Brno: Tribun EU, S. 599. ISBN: 978-80-263-1637–4.

Mark Brüggemann

Page range: 498-504

July 15, 2023

Russland und/als Eurasien

Christine Engel & Birgit Menzel (eds.). 2018. Russland und/als Eurasien: Kulturelle Konfigurationen. Berlin: Frank&Timme Verlag für wissenschaftliche Literatur, 340 S. ISBN 978-3-7329-0353-5

Anneke Sittner

Page range: 505-509

July 15, 2023

Der Mann im Untergrund

Kozakova, Slata. 2022. Der Mann im Untergrund. Zu einem Männlichkeitstypus in der russischen Literatur der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. (=Schnittstellen. Studien zum östlichen und südöstlichen Europa 23). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 211 S.

Dirk Uffelmann

Page range: 510-513

Volume 68 (2023)

Volume 67 (2022)

Volume 66 (2021)

Volume 65 (2020)

Volume 64 (2019)

Volume 63 (2018)

Volume 62 (2017)

Volume 61 (2016)

Volume 60 (2015)

Volume 59 (2014)

Volume 58 (2013)

Volume 57 (2012)

Volume 56 (2011)

Volume 55 (2010)

Volume 54 (2009)

Volume 53 (2008)

Volume 52 (2007)

Volume 51 (2006)

Volume 50 (2005)

Volume 49 (2004)

Volume 48 (2003)

Volume 47 (2002)

Volume 46 (2001)

Volume 45 (2000)

Volume 44 (1999)

Volume 43 (1998)

Volume 42 (1997)

Volume 41 (1996)

Volume 40 (1995)

Volume 39 (1994)

Volume 38 (1993)

Volume 37 (1992)

Volume 36 (1991)

Volume 29 (1984)

Volume 28 (1983)

Volume 27 (1982)

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Volume 26 (1981)

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Volume 25 (1980)

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Volume 24 (1979)

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Volume 23 (1978)

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Volume 22 (1977)

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Volume 21 (1976)

Issue 1

Volume 20 (1975)

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Volume 19 (1974)

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Volume 18 (1973)

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Volume 17 (1972)

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Volume 16 (1971)

Issue 1

Volume 15 (1970)

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Volume 14 (1969)

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Volume 13 (1968)

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Volume 12 (1967)

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Volume 11 (1966)

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Volume 10 (1965)

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Volume 9 (1964)

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Volume 8 (1963)

Issue 1

Volume 7 (1962)

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Volume 6 (1961)

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Volume 5 (1960)

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Volume 4 (1959)

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Volume 3 (1958)

Issue 1-5

Volume 2 (1957)

Issue 1

Volume 1 (1956)

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Journal Impact Factor	0.2	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
5-year Journal Impact Factor	0.1	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
Journal Citation Indicator	0.18	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
CiteScore	0.3	2022, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2023)
SCImago Journal Rank	0.143	2022, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2023; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.719	2022, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2023; Data Source: Scopus)

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Literary Studies:

Prof. Dr. Christian Prunitsch, TU Dresden, Institut für Slavistik, Wiener Straße 48, D-01219 Dresden; Postanschrift D-01062 Dresden, Tel. (0351) 46 33 27 71, e-mail: christian.prunitsch@tu-dresden.de
Prof. Dr. Klavdia Smola, Institut für Slavistik, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, e-mail: klavdia.smola@tu-dresden.de

Linguistics:

Prof. Dr. Peter Kosta, Universität Potsdam, Institut für Slavistik, Postfach 60 15 53,
D-14415 Potsdam, Tel. (0331) 9 77 41 52, Fax (0331) 9 77 41 55, e-mail: peter.kosta@uni-potsdam.de
Prof. Dr. Holger Kuße, TU Dresden, Institut für Slavistik, Wiener Straße 48, D-01219 Dresden; Postanschrift D-01062 Dresden, Tel. (0351) 46 33 42 20, Fax (0351) 46 33 70 71, e-mail: holger.kusse@tu-dresden.de.

Review requests:

Prof. Dr. Klavdia Smola, Institut für Slavistik, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, e-mail: klavdia.smola@tu-dresden.de
Prof. Dr. Holger Kuße, TU Dresden, Institut für Slavistik, Wiener Straße 48, D-01219 Dresden; Postanschrift D-01062 Dresden, Tel. (0351) 46 33 42 20, Fax (0351) 46 33 70 71, e-mail: holger.kusse@tu-dresden.de.

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Editor-In-Chief:
Prof. Dr. Peter Kosta, Prof. Dr. Holger Kuße (geschäftsführend), Prof. Dr. Christian Prunitsch, Prof. Dr. Klavdia Smola

Editorial Office:
Ilona Kunkel

Wissenschaftlicher Beirat
B. Bednaríkova (Olomouc), Bernhard Brehmer (Konstanz), Christoph Garstka (Bochum), M. Garzaniti (Florenz), H. Jung (Seoul), Y. Kakridis (Bern), B. Kreß (Hildesheim), M. Lecke (Regensburg), Ingunn Lunde (Bergen), Tore Nesset (Oslo), Katrin Schlund (Trier), U. Schmid (St. Gallen), Ludger Udolph (Dresden), V. Warditz (Potsdam), Ksenia Zanon (Cambridge, UK)

Address:
Prof. Dr. Holger Kuße,
TU Dresden, Institut für Slavistik,
Wiener Straße 48, D- 01219 Dresden; Postanschrift D-01062 Dresden,
Germany
Tel. (0351) 46 33 42 20,
Fax (0351) 46 33 70 71,
E-mail: holger.kusse@tu-dresden.de

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Online ISSN: 2196-7016
Print ISSN: 0044-3506
Type: Journal
Languages: German, English
Publisher: De Gruyter (A)
First published: June 20, 1956
Publication Frequency: 4 Issues per Year