Publications: Russian Peasant Letters - Spatial Concepts in Slavic - West European Guidelines in Serbia

Tue Nov 4 17:31:38 UTC 2008

>From Robert Gietz <rgietz at harrassowitz.de>:
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3 new publications from Harrassowitz:

http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_2561.ahtml
Olga T. Yokoyama
Russian Peasant Letters
Texts and Contexts
Slavistische Studienbücher, Neue Folge 18
Part 1: 2008. VIII, 486 pages, 47 fig., hc
Part 2: 2008. 487 pages, 2 foldout plates, 25 fig., hc 
ISBN 978-3-447-05653-3
EUR 148,- (D) / ca. US 193,-

This editio princeps of letters by three Russian peasant men and two 
peasant women from a single family in southern Vyatka (now Udmurtia) 
covers the reign of Alexander III and two years of Nicholas II. The 
letters represent a precious primary source for Russian dialectologists 
and other linguists, such as those interested in the acquisition of 
literacy. They also provide direct, unadorned, and often vivid testimony 
concerning all aspects of everyday life - a unique source for scholars of 
history, sociology, culturology, and Peasant Studies. Written entirely in 
the peasants' own voices, addressing other family members, the letters 
track the development of events and of the authors themselves. The content 
includes economic and personal news, village and town gossip, parental 
admonition and prayers, requests for help, intrafamily troubles, and 
simply the authors' pouring out their hearts. The texts (with 
commentaries) are reproduced in three versions (the original Russian, a 
normalized Russian version, and an English translation); essays on 
linguistic and content-related features are followed by indices, 
appendices, bibliographical references, and facsimiles and illustrations.

http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_596.ahtml
Ljiljana Šarić
Spatial Concepts in Slavic
A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Prepositions and Cases
Slavistische Studienbücher, Neue Folge 19
2008. VII, 304 pages, 4 ill., 11 tables, hc
ISBN 978-3-447-05806-3
EUR 56,- (D)/ sFr 96,- / US $ ca. 73,-
The focus of this book is how Slavic languages represent spatial 
relations, and how spatial cognition and perception influence the 
understanding and linguistic coding of nonspatial domains. Individual 
analyses concentrate on the semantics of selected prepositions and cases 
in Bosnian/ Croatian/ Serbian (B/ C/ S), providing a comparative 
perspective on other Slavic languages, primarily Russian and Polish. The 
opening analysis discusses the main theoretical notion - metaphorical 
extension - exemplifying the relation of spatial usages of linguistic 
items to non-spatial usages. This is followed by an analysis of the most 
basic spatial relations, "in-ness" and "on-ness." The meaning network of 
prepositions equivalent to on and in helps explain the meaning of the 
cases they combine with: the accusative and locative. Another crucial 
spatial relation, proximity, is taken into account in the semantic 
analysis of the B/ C/ S prepositions kod and pri, their Slavic 
equivalents, and cases they combine with: the genitive and locative. The 
next chapter deals with the spatial meaning of the dative case, examining 
dative's prepositional usages, the bare directional dative in B/ C/ S, and 
the semantic relation of the bare directional dative to other meaning 
domains of this case.

http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_1627.ahtml
Gabriella Schubert (Hg.)
Serbien in Europa
Leitbilder der Moderne in der Diskussion
Forschungen zu Südosteuropa 3
2008. 162 Seiten, 29 Abb., br
ISBN 978-3-447-05849-0
EUR 40,- / ca. US 52,-

K. Dicke, Westeuropäische Leitbilder der Moderne 
Z. Konstantinovic', Prägende Persönlichkeiten serbischen Denkens in 
Geschichte und Gegenwart 
H.-D. Döpmann, Kirche und Religion in Serbien 
G. Schubert, Tradierte mentale Konzepte auf dem Balkan und deren prägende 
Kraft 
A. Loma, Von Archetypen zu Stereotypen: Die Serben gegenüber Europa 
M. Kovic', From Vienna to Paris: Serbian Elite between Central and Western 
Europe (1878-1914) 
M. Kosanovic , Serbische Eliten im 19. Jahrhundert. Selbstwahrnehmung und 
Zielsetzung zwischen Tradition und Modernisierung 
M. Ristovic' , Serbische Themen in den deutschen satirischen Zeitschriften 
Kladderadatsch, Simplicissimus und Ulk 1903-1918 
D. Stojanovic , Das Europäische und das Antieuropäische in Europa 
V.N. Makrides, Orthodoxe Kulturen, der Westen und Europa: Die eigentlichen 
Schwierigkeiten einer Beziehung am Beispiel der serbischen Orthodoxie 
T. Bremer, Neuere Diskurse in der Serbischen Orthodoxen Kirche
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