Centre of Linguocultural Research Balcanica Proceedings of Round Tables
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RU) |
| ISSN | 2619-0842 |
| Wikidata | Q96700074 |
| OpenAlex | S4210234846 |
| MAG | 4210234846 |
| Total publications | 11 |
| Coverage period | 2018 - 2022 |
| Country | RU |
| Language | EN |
| Access | Open Access |
This venue focuses on linguocultural research in the Balkans, which directly aligns with linguistic anthropology and cultural studies within an area studies framework. This makes it a closely cognate venue that frequently publishes work relevant to social anthropologists
Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies
Apulian Vase-Painting of the Fourth Century BC: Graeco-Italic “Translations”
The author deals with the problem of “translation” in Apulian vase-painting of the Late Classical period. Attic patterns of ceramic forms and compositions being produced at the beginning of South Italiote vase-painting (at Tarent, in particular), should have been “translated” into Italic “language” (the Ilioupersis painter) of the rich indigenous clientele. In their turn, the Italic artisans tended to approach their production to Hellenic models;…
Sacred Practices of the Christian Orthodox and the Muslims in the Mixed Shrines in the Devoll Region (South-East Albania)
The article portrays the mixed sacred practices of the Christians and the Muslims in the Devoll region in southeastern Albania: in the Satrivaç Orthodox sanctuary in the village Hoçisht (Satrivaç or Shatrivaç) and the Bektashi sanctuary in the village Kuç (Inonisht). Based on the materials of the field work in Devoll in July 2019 and July 2021, the authors consider how sacred practices in the space of sanctuaries are distinguished by representati…
A Translation from the Hellenistic Bureaucratic Koiné into Greek Dialect
Greek inscription IG IX II 517 quotes two letters from Philipp V of Macedonia dating 217 and 214 BC addressed to the Thessalian city Larissa and then loosely rephrases them in Thessalian, explaining the council’s decision. The Thessalian text in many respects is a form of translation from the koiné into the dialect. In view of the importance of Macedonian influence on Thessaly at this time, this kind of “translation” reads as a political demonstr…
Mythology of Infants’ Excessive Crying and Certain Mythical Characters in the Folk Culture of the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine
Basing on the materials from expeditions to the Ukrainian and Rusyn villages of the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, we describe two groups of beliefs concerning excessive crying in infants. According to one group of beliefs, such crying represents something similar to a magical infection and can be transmitted from a crying infant to a non-crying one by manipulations with the crying infant’s bath water. According to another group of beliefs, inf…
Documenting the Slavic Dialects of Albania: A Photographer’s Gaze, a Linguist’s Reflection
The article focuses on theoretical and practical issues of doing fieldwork in a team of specialists with different profiles (linguistics and photography). It further on dwells upon hybrid structures that emerge in a Macedonian dialect in contact with Albanian. The appendix to the article includes photos taken in the field as well as commentaries
Orahovac Town Community: Language, History, Self-Identitfication
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the (socio)linguistic situation in the town of Orahovac, Western Kosovo. The situation involves interaction of the local Gheg dialect of the Albanian language, the literary Albanian language, the literary Serbian language, the local Torlak dialect, and the special Slavic idiom of the Albanian population, known as ravački ‘the dialect of Orahovac’. An attempt is made to give a linguistic description o…
“Where do I Find the Words to Describe”: Plant Phenomena and Phytonyms in Himara
In the contact zone in the Albanian-Greek border area, the recording of phytonyms is a complex scientifi c task. On the one hand, our key informants who own or declare fl uency in both languages are often able to name four lexemes that defi ne a particular plant: in standard Greek, in the Greek dialect of the region, in standard Albanian and in the Albanian dialect. On the other hand, there are frequent cases when the “translated” names of common…
Foreword. Strategies of Interbalkan Communication and Translation
This is a foreword to the collected volume “Strategies of Interbalkan communcation: Translation” (Centre of Linguocultural Research Balcanica. Proceedings of Round Tables. 7). Translation in the research of the Moscow School of Balkan Linguistics is interpreted in the wide semiotic sense, that is, not only as transformation of texts with the means of another language code, but also as semiotic transition between various codes of the Model of the …
The Homeric Formula ἐπ’ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης and Its Reception: Adaptation and Reinterpretation in the Aeneid
The article examines the reception of the Homeric formula ἐπ’ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης “on the broad back of the sea” in Greek and Latin poetry, and reconstructs (on the basis of scholia and lexical glosses) how Alexandrian exegesis evaluated this expression. Special attention is given to Vergil’s adaptation of this formula in the Aeneid: in one context Vergil translates the expression neutrally, reproducing Homer’s usage of εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης to spe…
Folk Terminology of the Balkan and Slavic Christian Orthodox Feasts: The Danger of Translation
The article combines methods of ethnolinguistics, Balkan studies, and translatory studies with the aim to analyze the translations of the folk Christian terms of feasts and other facts of the traditional culture. The study of the ways the East-Slavonic calendric term Vtoroj (Second) Spas ʻTransfi guration’ from the Boris Pasternak’s poem August is translated into seven Balkan and South Slavic languages (compared to two English translations) is su…
Conversations in Athenian Necropolis
The author deals with the problem of communication between the living and the dead in Athenian (and more generally, Greek) Classical cemetery, observing the relief stelae as well as inscriptions. It appears to be many different voices in this polylogos coming first from the stele itself as a “speaking object” (and then from the deceased buried under it) and from a passer-by whom (s)he addresses, with the addition of the customer (relatives), the …
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Conversations in Athenian Necropolis
The author deals with the problem of communication between the living and the dead in Athenian (and more generally, Greek) Classical cemetery, observing the relief stelae as well as inscriptions. It appears to be many different voices in this polylogos coming first from the stele itself as a “speaking object” (and then from the deceased buried under it) and from a passer-by whom (s)he addresses, with the addition of the customer (relatives), the …
Apulian Vase-Painting of the Fourth Century BC: Graeco-Italic “Translations”
The author deals with the problem of “translation” in Apulian vase-painting of the Late Classical period. Attic patterns of ceramic forms and compositions being produced at the beginning of South Italiote vase-painting (at Tarent, in particular), should have been “translated” into Italic “language” (the Ilioupersis painter) of the rich indigenous clientele. In their turn, the Italic artisans tended to approach their production to Hellenic models;…
Sacred Practices of the Christian Orthodox and the Muslims in the Mixed Shrines in the Devoll Region (South-East Albania)
The article portrays the mixed sacred practices of the Christians and the Muslims in the Devoll region in southeastern Albania: in the Satrivaç Orthodox sanctuary in the village Hoçisht (Satrivaç or Shatrivaç) and the Bektashi sanctuary in the village Kuç (Inonisht). Based on the materials of the field work in Devoll in July 2019 and July 2021, the authors consider how sacred practices in the space of sanctuaries are distinguished by representati…
A Translation from the Hellenistic Bureaucratic Koiné into Greek Dialect
Greek inscription IG IX II 517 quotes two letters from Philipp V of Macedonia dating 217 and 214 BC addressed to the Thessalian city Larissa and then loosely rephrases them in Thessalian, explaining the council’s decision. The Thessalian text in many respects is a form of translation from the koiné into the dialect. In view of the importance of Macedonian influence on Thessaly at this time, this kind of “translation” reads as a political demonstr…
Mythology of Infants’ Excessive Crying and Certain Mythical Characters in the Folk Culture of the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine
Basing on the materials from expeditions to the Ukrainian and Rusyn villages of the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, we describe two groups of beliefs concerning excessive crying in infants. According to one group of beliefs, such crying represents something similar to a magical infection and can be transmitted from a crying infant to a non-crying one by manipulations with the crying infant’s bath water. According to another group of beliefs, inf…
Documenting the Slavic Dialects of Albania: A Photographer’s Gaze, a Linguist’s Reflection
The article focuses on theoretical and practical issues of doing fieldwork in a team of specialists with different profiles (linguistics and photography). It further on dwells upon hybrid structures that emerge in a Macedonian dialect in contact with Albanian. The appendix to the article includes photos taken in the field as well as commentaries
Orahovac Town Community: Language, History, Self-Identitfication
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the (socio)linguistic situation in the town of Orahovac, Western Kosovo. The situation involves interaction of the local Gheg dialect of the Albanian language, the literary Albanian language, the literary Serbian language, the local Torlak dialect, and the special Slavic idiom of the Albanian population, known as ravački ‘the dialect of Orahovac’. An attempt is made to give a linguistic description o…
“Where do I Find the Words to Describe”: Plant Phenomena and Phytonyms in Himara
In the contact zone in the Albanian-Greek border area, the recording of phytonyms is a complex scientifi c task. On the one hand, our key informants who own or declare fl uency in both languages are often able to name four lexemes that defi ne a particular plant: in standard Greek, in the Greek dialect of the region, in standard Albanian and in the Albanian dialect. On the other hand, there are frequent cases when the “translated” names of common…
Foreword. Strategies of Interbalkan Communication and Translation
This is a foreword to the collected volume “Strategies of Interbalkan communcation: Translation” (Centre of Linguocultural Research Balcanica. Proceedings of Round Tables. 7). Translation in the research of the Moscow School of Balkan Linguistics is interpreted in the wide semiotic sense, that is, not only as transformation of texts with the means of another language code, but also as semiotic transition between various codes of the Model of the …
The Homeric Formula ἐπ’ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης and Its Reception: Adaptation and Reinterpretation in the Aeneid
The article examines the reception of the Homeric formula ἐπ’ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης “on the broad back of the sea” in Greek and Latin poetry, and reconstructs (on the basis of scholia and lexical glosses) how Alexandrian exegesis evaluated this expression. Special attention is given to Vergil’s adaptation of this formula in the Aeneid: in one context Vergil translates the expression neutrally, reproducing Homer’s usage of εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης to spe…
Folk Terminology of the Balkan and Slavic Christian Orthodox Feasts: The Danger of Translation
The article combines methods of ethnolinguistics, Balkan studies, and translatory studies with the aim to analyze the translations of the folk Christian terms of feasts and other facts of the traditional culture. The study of the ways the East-Slavonic calendric term Vtoroj (Second) Spas ʻTransfi guration’ from the Boris Pasternak’s poem August is translated into seven Balkan and South Slavic languages (compared to two English translations) is su…