Researching linguistic and cultural divergency in Serbian — Bulgarian border regions
Biljana Sikimić
Докладчик
главный научный сотрудник
Институт балканистики Сербская академия наук
Институт балканистики Сербская академия наук
4-У
2019-03-19
14:20 -
14:40
Ключевые слова, аннотация
Border
studies, vernacular, Torlak, Bulgaria, Serbia, fieldwork, linguistic landscape.
Тезисы
The article analyzes the transformation of linguistic and cultural
traditions and their perception by actors in the framework of the
international project «(Dis-) entangling traditions on the Central
Balkans: Performance and Perception» (TraCeBa), now in progress by a
consortium of researchers from Switzerland, Serbia and Russia
(2018–2020). Initial field material was collected during the elaboration
of the project «Fieldwork research of Timok vernaculars» (2015–2017),
in Serbia, using questionnaire aimed at elicitation of narratives (oral
history, biographical stories, traditional culture and folklore). This «Timok» field questionnaire was supplemented and adapted at the
beginning of the TraCeBa project (done by the Russian part of the
consortium), and during July 2018, it was applied in fieldwork in
several Torlak settlements in Bulgaria. The research team was mixed,
with researchers from Sankt-Petersburg, Belgrade and Sofia. In addition
to ethno-linguistic differences in traditional culture, this article
will pay attention to the differences in the linguistic landscape that
are the result of a different historical experience of socialism in two
countries, still visible today: first, the inscriptions referring to
libraries (Bulg. читалище) as cultural institutions that still actively
work in Bulgaria with the symbolic presence of the Serbian language in
their interior spaces, on diplomas and prospects brought from Serbia
which testify to the intensive border cooperation; next, the
inscriptions on some rural households as «exemplary» (Bulg. образцов
дом), as well as the Bulgarian tradition of personalized obituaries, as
opposed to template obituaries in contemporary Serbia.