SLAVIC PHILOLOGY 1 MOD.2

The course gives a broad introduction into the development of written language culture among the Slavs. It addresses the interface of historiography, linguistics and philology and presents Church Slavonic in the context and framework of European cultural history. Following a strictly chronological order, the course is structured in three units: first we will focus on the classic period of Canonical Old Church Slavonic, then the development in the Balkans and the East-Slavic Rus’ of Kiev and Moscow. The last part is describing the emancipation of the Slavic vernaculars from Church Slavonic since 18th century until today.

• Memorizing and contextualizing facts: Students will acquire knowledge in the development of Slavic languages from 9th to 21st century, starting with the legacy of Cyrill and Method, the constitution of the Slavia orthodoxa and the Slavia Latina. They will learn about the impact of Reformation and Counter-Reformation, of Enlightenment and modern national movements on the relation of the hierarchical diglossic system of High and Low Varieties. Special emphasis will be put on the emancipation of the modern Slavic standard languages.
• Transfer of knowledge: At the same time the course will apply modern linguistic methods (typology, contact-induced model of “Balkan Linguistic Union”, creolization, artificial languages, sociolinguistic models like diglossia/diaglossia) to diachronic examples.
• Reading Competence: Students will acquire competencies in diachronic literacy, how to use their Slavic intercomprehension to approach texts in varieties they have not learned. They get an overview of historical dictionaries to use and how to
• “Learning by doing research”: The course has a research-oriented approach and is providing the students with the actual state of the art in different fields of Slavic Philology, empowering them to identify potential topics for their theses and potential PhD projects.

Since we are reading texts from different periods and build on Slavic intercomprehension, students should have command of a modern Slavic language (A2) and being familiar with basic terminology in linguistics and philology.

THE CANONICAL PERIOD
22.3.2022:
1. Introduction and Overview: Context of Old Church Slavonic, Legacy, periods and territories of Church Slavonic
23.3.2022:
2. Old Church Slavonic: typology, periodization and genres, translation issues
29.3.2022:
3. Old Church Slavonic as Balkan language?

MEDIEVAL REDACTIONS
30.3.2022:
4. Kievan Rus’ and Medieval Diglossia
5.4.2022:
5. Church Slavonic in the “Third Rome” Moscow
6.4.2022:
6. Language Innovation and Reform of Church Slavonic in the South Slavic Counter-Reformation
12.4.2022:
7. Language Innovation and Reform of Church Slavonic in the Polish-East Slavic contact zone

OVERCOMING MEDIEVAL DIGLOSSIA AND IDEOLOGIZATION IN MODERN TIMES
13.4.2022:
8. Towards Modern Russian: Church Slavonic in St.Petersburg in 18th century
19.4.2022:
9. The fate of Church Slavonic in 19th century South-Slavic varieties: Illyrism and Proto-Yugoslavism, Serbian and Bulgarian
20.4.2022:
10. Panslavism, artificial languages and Synodal Church Slavonic from 19th century until today

Obligatory reading:
Lunt, H.: Old Church Slavonic Grammar. Berlin, New York 72001
Picchio, R., H. Goldblatt: Aspects of the Slavic language question. Vol. 1-2 New Haven 1984
Trunte, N.: Slavenskij jazyk. Bd. 2: Mittel - und Neukirchenslavisch. München 22014

At the end of the course a written exam (45 min) will follow.
Intermediate test forms during the course are:
-at the beginning of each session two students have to prepare 5 min-presentations summing up the results of the previous session
-homeworks with concrete research tasks to be delivered via the moodle platform twice during the course.

The course is structured in three topic units and ten lectures that will be given as frontal teaching. There will be parallel reading units as group work as well as preparation of additional material provided in the online moodle course. The online platform offers all the power point presentations and pdfs of the obligatory and facultative reading. The presentations contain take-home-tasks with precise questions, e.g. in the comparison of different translations or redactions of one and the same text.

Italian

The students enrolled in this course will be invited to take part in future digital or hybrid forms of scientific events (lectures, workshops, conferences) taking place at the Institute for Slavic and Hungarian Studies at Humboldt University Berlin in order to internationalize teaching programs and foster the cooperation between Slavic Studies in Venice and Berlin.

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development