REPRESENTATIONS OF SLOVENIAN IDENTITY AND ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL(ISTIC) DISCOURSE IN THE SLOVENIAN MAGAZINE KAPLJE

Abstract

The article deals with the position held by the Slovenian magazine Kaplje [Drops] in the Slovenian collective memory. Published in the town of Idrija between 1966 and 1972, i.e. in the period of party liberalism in former Yugoslavia, Kaplje was a publication from the periphery that 'swam against the current', although its role was almost entirely ignored. The article's aim is therefore to determine how the magazine's contributors represented and (re)produced Slovenian identity and its constitutive elements, and which forms and strategies of national(istic) discourse were used. The methodology is based on a critical discursive analysis of selected articles that touch on the above-mentioned themes from all 26 issues of the magazine, including a special issue released upon the twentieth anniversary of the date the magazine voluntarily came to an end.

Alternate abstract:

Članek se ukvarja z revijo Kaplje in njeno vlogo vslovenskem kolektivnem spominu. Kaplje, ki so izhajale v Idriji v letih 1972- 1966, torej v obdobju t. i. partijskega liberalizma v nekdanji Jugoslaviji, so bile publikacija, ki je sicer z obrobja ?plavala proti toku?, vendar pa je bila njena zgodovinska vloga praktično prezrta. Namen članka je ugotoviti, kako so avtorji revije predstavljali in (re)producirali slovensko identiteto in njene konstitutivne elemente ter katere so uporabljene oblike in strategije nacional(istič)nega diskurza. Metodološko članek temelji na kritični diskurzivni analizi izbranih príspevkov, ki se dotikajo obravnavanih tem, pri čemer so bile analizirane vse številke (26) revije in tudi posebna izdaja revije ob 20-letnici samoukinitve revije.