Pravopis na zrnu graha
The third monograph in the series “Discussions on Orthography” (preceded by Pravopisna stikanja ['Junctures of Orthography'], 2012, and Pravopisna razpotja ['Orthography at a Cross-Roads'], 2015) provides an opportunity to present the codification process in more detail. The revision of the Slovenian normative guide is accompanied by thorough research and broad deliberations, in which linguists are assisted by experts from other fields. In this way, we hope to move closer to the ultimate ideal. However, the Commission on Orthography at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts is aware that perfection is difficult to achieve, partly because we respect the diversity of language practises and ideologies. In this respect, we resemble the princess in Andersen's fairy tale; despite many figurative orthographic mattresses and duvets, we wake up repeatedly bruised by orthographic peas. The 22 contributors to the monograph demonstrate precisely this sensitivity to various orthographic and orthography-related issues. Their 19 contributions are thematically grouped in sections titled “The Codification Process: Insights and Observations,” “Dictionaries as Companions to Normative Rules,” “Orthographic and Broader Views on Proper Names and Common Nouns in Slovenian,” “Borrowing in Slovenian: Between Principles and Solid Solutions,” and “Orthography in Cross-Section with Phonetic, Stress, Morphological, and Word Formation Issues.” The monograph Orthography and the Pea thus opens a new perspective on topics that are more or less closely related to the creation of the new orthographic guide.
Chapters
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Front/Back
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Work stages and normative decisions in the normative rules reform
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Codification in orthography in the Czech Republic
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Through hardships to orthographic stars? Presentation of the normative rule reform in the case of »Novo Mesto«
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From letters and characters to alphabets and scripts
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Punctuation in administrative and business texts
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What’s new in the use of punctuation: Analysis of questions and answers in the Language Counseling Service
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Use of dictionary labels “in” and “tudi” in the case of morphological doublets
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Doublets in terminological dictionaries
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Personal designations in terminology
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Identifying proper names in phrases
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Standardized geographical names in Slovenian
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Analysis of the formal and semantic features of the geographical replacement names for ePravopis dictionary
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Proper name borrowing and omittance or preservation of silent ‑e
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Domestication of the English mid central vowel in Slovene
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Africa always brings something new
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Attitudes of Slovene language users towards accent issues
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Influence of the written standard norm on spoken Slovenian
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The prolongation of polysyllabic foreign masculine surnames with the base ending in ‑r
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Foreign surnames ending in the consonant cluster tz [c] with vowel alternation
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