Collection of Papers of the Faculty of Philosophy in Priština

“Young people are calling for more action on what they say is a climate emergency”: English Learner’s Dictionaries and the Global Environmental Issue

Silvia Pettini — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 14:12:50 +0200

This paper aims to investigate the representation of “the defining issue of our time” (Guterres, 2018), that is, the global environmental crisis, in online English learner’s dictionaries, in light of the link between these pedagogical tools, directed at a target audience of young foreign language users (Wirag, 2021, p. 46), and the youth’s increasing concern over the climate emergency (Buchholz, 2022; Cordis, 2023; Harrabin, 2021). For this purpose, this study explores the online editions of three major British dictionaries for learners, namely, the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, the Collins-Cobuild Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, and the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. These resources have been selected because their lexicographers simultaneously converged on this semantic field to identify the Words of the Year 2019, based on the increasing sociocultural relevance of the ecological crisis in spoken and written communication. Preliminary findings show many differences in the treatment of environmental terms, the quantity and quality of lexicographic data significantly vary across the three reference works, and the divergences affect the ways in which dictionaries reflect the influence of climate change on language.

Prepositions in Modern Greek – Accusative or Genitive Case?

Maja G. Baćić Ćosić, Anka M. Rađenović — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:09:13 +0200

Prepositions are indeclinable words with limited lexical meaning that cannot stand alone but can govern one or more cases. In Modern Greek, which has four cases (nominative, genitive, accusative, and vocative), prepositions are commonly used to express a variety of relations (such as location, time, direction, etc.). Specifically, certain prepositions in this language can be followed simultaneously by the accusative and genitive cases. The aim of this paper is to investigate how a group of students of Modern Greek as L2 at the Department of Modern Greek Studies, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, perceive the use of prepositions that syntactically correspond to the accusative and the genitive and change their meaning depending on the case they are used with. A non-experimental quantitative survey with multiple-choice, closed-ended questions was conducted. Respondents were asked to form prepositional phrases with prepositions that can be followed by both genitive and accusative (επί, υπό, από, προς, μετά, and κατά) by choosing nouns in one of the above cases. This paper aims to identify the semantic and syntactic components that may be problematic for learners of Modern Greek as L2 in the use of prepositions and prepositional phrases, as well as to suggest strategies for more efficient acquisition and use of this word class in Modern Greek.

Specifying Clauses in the Administrative-Legal Style of 19th-Century Serbian Language

Jelena M. Pavlović Jovanović — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:02:12 +0200

The paper examines the status of specifying clauses in the administrative-legal style of the Serbian language dating back to the 19th century. The corpus includes texts from 19th-century constitutions (adopted in 1835, 1838, 1869, 1888, and 1901) and the Collection of Laws and Decrees adopted by the Principality/Kingdom of Serbia. To isolate the normative-legal and ideological layers of the texts, the analysis employs a combination of historical-linguistic, syntactic-semantic, and functional methods, as well as legal theory methodology. As a result of the recent development of the Serbian language, the specifying meaning is only found infrequently in the examined corpus. Clauses introduced by the conjunction с тим да occur in postpositions and encode information of secondary importance to administrative-legal norms. Furthermore, an online (available) search of the Legal Information System of the Republic of Serbia reveals that the specifying meaning is only marginal even in modern legal language.

From the Contemporary Anthroponymy of Novi Sad 1 – Personal Names of Male Children Born in Novi Sad in 2021

Brankica Đ. Marković — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:37:33 +0200

This paper presents and analyzes the personal names of male children born in Novi Sad in 2021. The aim of the paper is to show which male names are popular today and whether fashion takes precedence over tradition when choosing a child’s name, as well as to determine the frequency of recorded names. Names are classified according to their origins, structures, and meaning. As no similar scientific research has been conducted in recent times, this study can be considered scientifically current and relevant, and it will make a modest contribution to the contemporary anthroponymy of Novi Sad.

Perception of Dialect Origin in Media Language: Is the Standard Language in Use a Supradialectal Idiom?

Miljana B. Čopa, Sofija R. Miloradović — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:51:43 +0200

Based on the assumption that the standard language in use, including prosodic features, is a distinct supradialectal idiom that lacks regionally distinctive features and can be acquired by speakers originating from dialect regions that are structurally distant from the dialects that serve as the basis for the standard language, we aim to investigate whether speakers from different dialect regions can be identified in TV speech by their dialectal origin. The study involved 45 participants, including 30 high school students and 15 linguists, who were asked to identify the dialect origins of speakers from different dialect regions using a multimedia survey. The results of the study indicate that a person’s speech does not always clearly reveal their dialect base. Furthermore, the standard language can also be acquired by speakers of Serbian who come from dialect regions that are distant from the dialects that formed the basis of the standard Serbian language. This study could pave the way for further research in the field of perceptual dialectology and contribute to a broader and deeper understanding of this phenomenon.

The Dramas of Manojlo Đorđević Prizrenac on the Serbian Stage

Aleksandar S. Pejčić — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:52:50 +0200

The paper interprets and evaluates the dramas performed by Manojlo Đorđević Prizrenac: Slobodarka, Zlatna grivna, and Jasmina and Irena. The first part of the paper focuses on the key poetic, dramaturgical, and genre features of these dramas, demonstrating that Prizrenac was a good playwright who mastered this demanding form very early on. The dominant meaning layers of each drama were interpreted separately (action, plot, space, and conception of characters) from a structural, semiological, and cultural point of view. The final part of the paper examines the reception of criticism as well as the place of Prizrenac’s drama opus in the history of Serbian theater from a literary-historical and theatrical perspective. His dramas were performed with nice scenic success in the National Theaters in Belgrade and Novi Sad, as well as Nikšić and Niš.

Comparative Studies of Collective Mentality: Travel Letters of Konstantin Bogdanović

Aleksandar M. Kostadinović — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 23:15:17 +0200

The paper analyzes the travel letters of Konstantin Bogdanović (1811–1854), a Serbian lawyer, writer, publicist, and politician who is regarded in literary historiography as one of the founders of Serbian literary criticism. Despite their significance, his travel writings have received little scholarly attention thus far. His two articles, “Letters from Paris” and “Letters from London”, which were published serially in Theodor Pavlović’s Serbski narodni list in 1846, represent the genesis of Serbian travel epistolography, particularly those written intentionally for publication in periodicals. The paper focuses on imagotypical elements in Bogdanović’s texts, analyzing French and English national characters comparatively. Using the methodology of comparative imagology, the paper explores the social, political, and literary factors that shaped the hetero-images of these two European nations in Bogdanović’s travel letters.

Hubert Fichte, “Paleta”, Paletians, Homosexuals and Other BEATians or: Can’t BEing Be Without Heteronormative Compulsions?

Marina М. Petrović Jilih — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:52:17 +0200

Building on the current literary and scientific discourse of the German-speaking area, which only began to deal intensively with issues of gender and queer literature at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, this paper reveals and analyzes the homosexual and gender discourse presented in the auto-fictional novel Paleta by homosexual/bisexual author Hubert Fichte. The novel was published in 1968 when homosexual relationships were illegal in the Federal Republic of Germany. The goals of the paper are to investigate the (im)possibility of finding self-knowledge, self-stabilization, and happiness in people who are “different” from others, as well as to shed light on the author’s role as a forerunner of contemporary gender and queer studies. The paper is theoretically based on post-feminist theories, which hold that gender is a culturally established construct of heteronormative societies.

Notes on Indigenous People from the South of the Province of Dalmatia (Examples from East Herzegovina)

Gligor M. Samardžić — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:42:07 +0200

The paper presents data on indigenous people from the area of east Herzegovina (the south of the province of Dalmatia). After the defeat of the Illyrians and the establishment of educational goals in the Roman province of Dalmatia, territorial and ethnic changes occurred with certain tribes that academic circles were poorly informed about. The indigenous feature, as indicated by the Illyrian names on the epigraph statues of east Herzegovina, is significant. By conquering the Illyrian territory and establishing power over it, the Romans left its inhabitants certain autonomy, followed by the processes of urbanization and Romanization from the 1st to the 4th century. After occupying the Illyrians, the period in which the indigenous people were introduced into Roman social and political order commenced. The following period was marked by the penetration and establishment of the ancient culture and civilization in the Balkans as well as by the work on the rule managemant with the Illyrians. Epigraph statues, various archeological findings and oral sources shed light to a certain extent on these processes in the territory of east Herzegovina. Archeological research and epigraph materials point to the conclusion that the areas in the inland of east Herzegovina (the south of Dalmatia) in the Roman period managed to perservere their regional ethnic characteristics for an extended period of time, which is best seen in the onomastics from Dobrićevo, Ljubomir, Fatnica, and Nevesinje. Some of the characteristic names found on epigraph statues from this area are Zorada, Zanatis, Tattaris, Temus etc. Regional onomastics testifies that the traditional lifestyles perservered in the Roman period for an extended period of time. However, inscriptions can still be found with indigenous Illyrian names that were to some extent adapted to the Roman onomastic system.

Žitomislić Monastery in the 19th Century

Borivoje M. Milošević — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:56:01 +0200

The Žitomislić Monastery, located not far from Mostar, has been considered one of the most important centres of Serbian spirituality and culture in Herzegovina since its founding. For this reason, it was the subject of extensive scientific research, while the nineteenth century was overlooked due to the lack of primary historical sources. Valuable descriptions of the monastery, providing details about its status and brotherhood, were left by Serafim Šolaja, Nićifor Dučić, and the Russian consul, Aleksandar Giljferding. The beauty of the monastery and its location along the Neretva River, on the way from Mostar to the coast, piqued the interest of many travellers, who left several records about it. A special place in the history of Žitomislić, and Serbian education in general, is held by the Spiritual School, the first of its kind in Bosnian Pashaluk, founded in 1858 by Nićifor Dučić and Serafim Perović. Like other Serbian monasteries and churches in Herzegovina, the Žitomislić Monastery survived the second half of the 19th century with occasional help from Serbia and Russia. Of special historical importance were the connections of Žitomislić with the Russian consuls in Bosnian Pashaluk.

Mail Transfer During the First Reign of Prince Miloš

Vesna O. Milojević — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:12:38 +0200

The mail transfer in Serbia can be tracked from Menzulana’s post stations, Tatarian courier service, and appointment of the chief supervisor to Constitution of postal administration which enabled a gradual transformation of this state institution into the system similar to current one. This transformation followed the Serbian authorities’ struggle for national independence which Prince Miloš Obrenović endeavoured to establish trying to improve a postal network at the same time, so that a postal network with suitable staff could satisfy the needs of all citizens of Serbia.

Icons of Zograf Hajji Kostadin Krstev in Dobrotin and Kosovska Kamenica

Ivana S. Rajović Ženarju — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:40:47 +0200

In the churches of St. Dimitrije in Dobrotin near Lipljan and St. Nicholas in Kosovska Kamenica, there are iconostases whose icons were painted by the painter Hajji Kostadin Krstev from Veles in 1862. He worked on the territory of the Diocese of Raška and Prizren in the first half of the seventh decade of the 19th century, when he painted the church of the Devič monastery, created the iconostasis in the church of the Holy Archangel Gabriel in Veliko Ropotovo near Gnjilane, the iconostasis and wall painting in Dobrotin, as well as all icons, apart from those of the Great feasts, for the iconostasis in the church of Saint Nicholas in Kosovska Kamenica. Also, with the painter Ignjat from Veles, who helped him in painting of the church in Dobrotin, he created painted decoration for the throne of the miracle-working icon of Peć. The iconostases in Dobrotin and Kosovska Kamenica, as well as the one in Veliko Ropotovo, are modest three-zone wooden constructions. They were made according to the Balkan cultural model and zographic pictorial poetics, and they differ slightly from each other in terms of dimensions and the number of icons. Both iconostases have modest or no relief decoration. The iconostasis in the church of St. Demetrius in Dobrotin has only two throne icons and high parapets under them, the imperial doors that are not even painted, and north and south doors that are painted. Above the throne icons there are two rows of icons, arbitrarily arranged, with figures of saints and representations of Great feasts. At the very top of the iconostasis, there is a monumental cross with the crucifixion of Christ. On several icons in the higher zones, there were inscriptions, but only the one on the icon of the Shroud of the Holy Virgin is preserved and states that it was a gift from Milovan Rašić. The names of other donors are not legible. The iconostasis represents a unique whole with the wall painting. The iconostasis in the church of St. Nicholas in Kosovska Kamenica has a somewhat different appearance, but it was made and painted according to the same pictorial and dogmatic principles. It has five throne icons, the imperial and northern doors. In the second zone, there is a row of icons with the figures of the apostles, and above them a row of icons of the Great feasts, which are the work of Vasilije Djinoski. At the top, there is a painted Crucifixion of the Christ, set on the relief dragons. This paper presents in detail the iconography of all the icons, which were simultaneously compared to each other, as well as to the icons painted a year earlier in Veliko Ropotovo.

Dispositifs of Security (Foucault on Governing)

Branko Lj. Romčević — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:43:44 +0200

In this paper, we start from theses on governing, developed in Foucault’s lectures from the course Security, Territory, Population (1978). Our goal is to use them, applying the method of close reading, to get to what he called the mechanisms and instruments of every governing, that is, to the dispositifs of security. In order to achieve this, we first consider the distinction that Foucault drew between the art of conduct and the art of government (governmentality), and then the distinction between regulation and governing. In this framework, we review the writings in which Foucault introduced the issues of biopower, discipline and biopolitics, and we find that in the 1978 lectures, he made a far-reaching change by linking biopolitics, previously defined as a regulatory technique, to governing. In the central part of the paper, we analyze his thematization of the economic rationale of governing and the determination of liberalism as a general paradigm of governmentality in the modern era, which results in a society that, as he says, is controlled by security dispositifs. The security program, unlike the disciplinary one, does not aim to abolish or suppress anything, but rather to determine the optimal average and bandwidth of the acceptable for each phenomenon. Then, discussing the similarities and differences between disciplinary dispositifs and sexuality dispositifs, established through Foucault’s books Discipline and Punish and Will to Knowledge (the first volume of the History of Sexuality), we ask the question about dispositifs in general. Then we apply the obtained findings to the constitution of the security dispositif as a way to embody that equilibrium (between optimal average and bandwidth of the acceptable) in the social reality. In the final part, we consider two cases (Frédéric Gros on the fourth age of security and Didier Bigo on the ban-opticon) of the application of Foucault’s theses to the period from the beginning of this century, emphasizing that the Foucauldian perspective, when all its constituents are taken into account, is neither pessimistic nor dystopian.

Paths and Dead Ends of Critical Race Theory

Boris R. Bratina — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:47:14 +0200

This paper introduces the reader to the fundamentals of Critical Race Theory, which is highly influential today. The author accomplishes this not only by simply introducing the reader to the most important aspects of this relatively new teaching but also by examining each of them critically. Throughout his presentation, the author discusses all of the major influences on the development of this theory, starting with Marxism, (post)structuralism, and legal practice as a source of facticity. According to him, this academic-activist movement has at least three basic theoretical propositions: 1) the thesis about institutionalized racism in the United States from its founding to the present, 2) the thesis that race is not a biological but a cultural concept and, accordingly, the advocacy of anti-essentialism, and 3) thesis and decision to expand Critical Race Theory by introducing minorities (most notably, sexual minorities) into the game. The paper critically examines the idea that racism stems from skin colour, as well as the movement’s decision to seek support outside the circle of racism-related problems. This expansion blunts both CRT’s theoretical edge and its practical application, as evidenced by the fate of anti-racist and emancipatory movements. Finally, the author demonstrates how the entire movement conforms to the ruling racial system.

Weber’s Understanding of Epistemological and Methodological Foundations of Social Sciences and Sociology

Stefan V. Mandić — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:38:39 +0200

Since the formation of sociology as a separate science during the first half of the 19th century, some of the most important questions that sociologists have attempted to answer have been what the cognitive possibilities of sociology as a science are and what the most adequate methods of research that it should use are. In this work, we will critically analyze how Max Weber, one of the most significant sociologists, understood the cognitive possibilities of sociology and what method, according to him, sociology as a social science should use. Firstly, we will examine how the intellectual climate of the second half of the 19th century influenced his understanding of scientific methodology in a broader sense. Then, Weber’s vision of the basic epistemological characteristics of social sciences and his methodological-theoretical determination of sociology will be presented.

Identity Crisis and Culture of Punishment in Postmodern Society

Zoran D. Nedeljković, Radica M. Antić — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:41:27 +0200

The paper examines the historical account of punishing individuals from the earliest civilized societies to the current postmodern era. The notion of punishment is interpreted in the paper as a moral sanction (internal and external), as well as a physical punishment, which over ages turned into torture whose purpose was punishment for punishment's sake, not moral correction of violators of custom or law, to be useful upon their return to society. The transition from torture as a religious ritual to torture, which grows into a culture of punishment, is pointed out. Punishment in conditions of war and peace has a specific dimension. War as a teacher of violence (Thucydides) in most cases takes away the meaning of punishment, which has a moral function in peacetime. But even in times of peace, punishment is relativized. Michel Foucault writes about the contemporary panopticon and the supervision of the individual in society, who is, above all, punished by the institutions of positive morality and remains without personal identity, no longer as a self-conscious individual but as a simple individual. Under the influence of biopolitical power, he is deprived of responsibility for his own existence. He is entangled in invisible threads of social roles, like a spider’s web, that he eventually stops being the bearer of. When he wants to make a moral judgment about a social relationship or a phenomenon that does not coincide with his understanding of the social world, he feels powerlessness or remorse because he cannot bear that his isolated value judgment clashes with the interests and public opinion of the dominant social group.

The Mother Archetype in the Drama “The Sanctuary of Abraham” by Mavro Vetranović

Sara R. Jekić — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:58:22 +0200

Vetranović’s work, diverse in genres and themes, marked the 16th century and introduced the Christian Renaissance as a new ruling epoch in Dubrovnik, with him being a key representative. With his creative skills, this Benedictine monk, poet, devotee, and restorer of Christian themes and motifs in literature “revived” striking biblical female characters, who even then served an important function – to provide a universal model of education and governance for the female population. Inspired by the Old Testament biblical story (from the Book of Genesis) about Abraham’s testing and the most difficult sacrifice for any parent, Vetranović wrote the pious drama The Sanctuary of Abraham, in which he paid special attention to Abraham’s wife, Sarah. Sarah enchanted the then-reading audience with her spiritual beauty and moral sublimity, while her sacrifice for her only son and perseverance in faith, love, and hope established her as a good example of the archetype of unconditional maternal love.

Posthumous Reception of Ursula K. Le Guin in Serbian Scholarly Journals and Literary Periodicals

Artea D. Panajotović, Mirjana M. Vučković — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:58:57 +0200

Since the 1980s, Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018), one of the most influential science fiction and fantasy writers, has had an almost cult status and loyal readership in the region of former Yugoslavia. However, some ten years before her departure, interest in her work decreased. Her most important titles were out of print, new editions were not available, and she was less frequently written about in Serbian journals and periodicals. This changed after her death when, as was to be expected, interest in her work was rekindled. In this paper, we present the critical reception of Ursula K. Le Guin’s work in Serbian scholarly journals and literary periodicals from her death in January 2018 until the end of 2020. The aim of the research is to establish the extent and the way in which her opus (and, with it, speculative fiction in general) was presented and evaluated in Serbian scholarly journals and literary periodicals of this period. The presented results are part of a future, larger diachronic research of the complete reception of Ursula K. Le Guin’s opus in former Serbo-Croatian-speaking territory. Based on the analysed material, Ursula K. Le Guin received significant posthumous reception in Serbian scholarly journals and literary periodicals – in total, 21 texts were published from January 22, 2018, until December 31, 2020. The quality of the academic articles does not differ from the quality of Serbian scholarly production in general, and they examined the work of Ursula K. Le Guin from feminist, postcolonial, and cultural points of view.

The Importance of the Educational Department in France for the Education and Treatment of Serbian Youth During the First World War

Milena Ž. Žikić, Tanja Č. Milosavljević — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:40:04 +0200

The war in the Kingdom of Serbia led to life in exile after 1915. A large population of Serbian youth gathered in France, in addition to parliamentarians, officials, and soldiers. The education of the Serbian youth in France was organized by the Department of Education in Paris. The paper analyses the organization of the Department of Education in France during the First World War. We present the method of education and treatment of students.

Creativity from Robert Sternberg’s Perspective

Ivona J. Nađ — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:42:55 +0200

This paper aims to present and analyze both theories and models of Robert Sternberg, one of the most prolific and well-cited researchers in the field of creativity. A review of his theoretical assumptions reveals a clear shift in his understanding of creativity over time. The first model focuses exclusively on explaining the intrinsic characteristics of the creative individual, while subsequent studies recognize the significance of taking social context into account. In addition to theories that include traits of the creative individual, Sternberg also postulated a model that aims to explain the stages of the creative process. Given the qualitative differences between these two sets of explanations, the text is divided into two sections. First, the fundamental components and logic of each model are briefly presented. Second, models are contrasted with alternative ones that claim to explain the same aspects of creativity. The paper concludes that Sternberg’s theories make a specific contribution to our understanding of creativity. On the other hand, certain contradictions and criticisms are also discussed, along with a potential solution.

Analogies as a Potential for Expressing Creativity at Different Levels

Vesna Z. Cvjetinovic, Zlatko M. Pavlović — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:26:27 +0200

People living in the modern world face an increasing number of serious problems, the solution to which requires a creative approach. Therefore, the issue of creativity development and the factors that influence it are becoming increasingly important, as is creativity research. The paper describes the basics of one of the models of creativity (the 4C model) as a model that can be used for a more comprehensive understanding of such a complex phenomenon as creativity. It then uses examples to demonstrate how analogies can be applied to each of the four levels of creativity described by the 4C model. Analogies can be a tool for encouraging creative problem-solving and behavior. This applies to all of the levels of creativity described. The pedagogical importance of creativity at the lower, initial levels (mini-c and little-c creativity), which serve as the foundation for the higher levels of creativity (Pro-c and Big-C creativity), was emphasized. In this context, emphasis was placed on teaching children how to understand, use, and create metaphors and analogies.

The Monograph of Ana Janjušević Oliveri "Syntax and Semantics of the Imperative in Contemporary Serbian Language"

Janko R. Ivanović — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:12:07 +0200

The Monograph of Milica Stojanović "Verbs with Multiple Prefixes in the Serbian Language"

Stefan M. Stepanović — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:13:17 +0200

The Poetry of Kissing – Reading the Touch of Polish, Czech, and Serbian Poetry

Nina V. Stokić — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:11:41 +0200