Slavica

Aims & Scope

The journal invites articles and studies within four sections (Linguistics, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Scholarly Criticism), addressing key research problems of the Slavic linguistic and cultural sphere. These four scholarly sections may occasionally be supplemented by a Tabula gratulatoria page, as well as commemorative pieces included in a fifth section entitled “Notable Anniversaries.” The journal aims to serve as a link between senior and junior generations of scholars who, although geographically distant from one another, are closely connected through their research interests. The Linguistics Section considers it its task to publish research that presents new methods and results in Slavic historical linguistics and source studies, as well as studies that examine the historical and areal relationships of Slavic languages with other Slavic and non-Slavic languages. It also seeks to publish contributions analyzing contemporary trends of change in the Russian language within the frameworks of the linguistic worldview and cognitive discourse analysis. The Literary Studies Section includes among its preferred topics the myth-critical and comparative analysis of literary works of individual Slavic nations, as well as their investigation from perspectives of spatial poetics, intertextuality, and intermediality, along with close reading based on tropology and motif theory. We consider particularly important the publication of studies examining literary contacts and interactions between Slavic and non-Slavic peoples. The Cultural Studies Section places particular emphasis on the historical and theoretical study of Slavic cinema, as well as on issues of intermediality and the analysis of relations, transfers, and interactions between individual art forms and media. We welcome, among others, contributions examining the relationship between literature, language, and film; studies analyzing the interactions between literature and the visual arts (photography, painting, comics); works addressing the relationship between literature and theatre, as well as digital media; analyses of multimedia and transmedia narratives; and investigations into the medial transitions between popular and high culture. The Scholarly Criticism Section in Slavic Studies accepts book reviews and evaluative critical studies. Literary studies reviews focus on monographs published within the last three years that examine literary texts, genres, or traditions through modern theoretical and comparative approaches. Linguistic reviews assess works dealing with the study of linguistic structures, grammatical phenomena, and semantic and pragmatic issues, with particular emphasis on corpus-based, diachronic, contact-linguistic, and typological analyses. Cultural studies reviews reflect on research addressing cultural processes, social phenomena, identity, and memory, including interdisciplinary and comparative investigations.

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