ZORA 160: Imenitnost slovenščine sto let po Pleteršniku

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Marko Jesenšek (Ed.)
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts image/svg+xml , University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18690/um.5.2026

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Slovene language, literature and teaching Slovene, Maks Pleteršnik, language classes, multiculturality, cultural heritage

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ZORA 160: The Excellence of the Slovene Language a Hundred Years after Pleteršnik. The Slovene language was in Pleteršnik’s time a synonym for the Slovene nation. The equation language = nation enabled our predecessors in the 19th century within the framework of Austro-Hungarian pressures to establish themselves as an independent and historical nation. It also ena-bled them to demand the rights already bestowed on other nations in this multi-national Austro-Hungarian alliance. Pleteršnik’s dictionary has thus secured the excellence of the Slovene language a place among immortals. The monograph covers the broadest of the Slovene territory – slightly beyond a century after Pleteršnik’s death we endeavour to see how much of Pleteršnik’s excellence still remains in our language in the 21st century, as globalization and senseless anglicisation have attempted to marginalize it and push it out of public use, letting it linger as it had for centuries be-fore Pleteršnik came. Pleteršnik’s linguistic heritage is in this monograph being scrutinized from both the language-political and the literary-cultural points of view.

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Marko Jesenšek (Ed.), Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts

Marko Jesenšek is a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, an Honorary Member of the Slavic Society of Slovenia and a Professor of Slovene at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor. He is the author of 13 independent monographs and co-author of two. He edited 54 monographs and books of proceedings. His book The Slovene Language in the Alpine and Panonian Language Area  (Kraków: Universitas) is considered to be a valuable contribution into the world treasury of knowledge about the linguistic situation in Slovenia. He also wrote an extensive entry Prekmurje Slovene (Prekmurski jezik) for the Brill Encyclopedia ESLL (Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics), the most comprehensive reference work about Slavic languages to date. He is a co-founder and chief editor of the international journal Slavia Centralis, and the editor of the international Series Zora (157 books published in the Series so far). For his research and scientific work, he received the Zois Award for excellence in the field of the Slovene Language.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: marko.jesensek@um.si

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Published

July 16, 2026

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ZORA

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ISBN-13 (15)

978-961-299-173-9

COBISS.SI ID (00)

284878083

THEMA Subject Codes (93)

C; CB; CF

Date of first publication in original language (20)

2026-07-16

Details about the available publication format: Softback (in print)

Softback (in print)

ISBN-13 (15)

978-961-299-174-6

COBISS.SI ID (00)

284877059

THEMA Subject Codes (93)

NastavitveC; CB; CF

Date of first publication in original language (20)

2026-07-16

Physical Dimensions

17cm x 23cm x 2.6cm

How to Cite

Jesenšek, M. (Ed.). (2026). ZORA 160: Imenitnost slovenščine sto let po Pleteršniku (Vols. 160). University of Maribor Press. https://doi.org/10.18690/um.5.2026