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Časopis pro moderní filologii a Vladimír Šmilauer (1939–1951)
The Journal for Modern Philology and Vladimír Šmilauer (1939–1951)

Author(s): Martina Šmejkalová
Subject(s): Cultural history, Bibliography, Scientific Life, Philology
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: Vladimír Šmilauer; Journal for Modern Philology; history of linguistics; history of philology; onomastics; Slovak studies; phonetics; grammar; bibliography

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the influence of Vladimír Šmilauer on the character of the Journal of Modern Philology (Časopis pro moderní filologii, ČMF). Šmilauer was associated with the Journal for Modern Philology as an author and an editor for Slavic studies (1939–1951). The article describes the main linguistic/philological topics contributed to the magazine by Šmilauer (Slovak studies and the history of the Slovak language, new Czech, e.g. orthography, reports on foreign literature, etc.). The period of Šmilauer’s work at the ČMF falls into a time of socially problematical political systems: the Nazi protectorate after 1939 and the communist terror after 1948. On the example of the case of Šmilauer, we will show how and when political systems were directly reflected in the philological content of the Journal for Modern Philology

  • Issue Year: 105/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 107-120
  • Page Count: 140
  • Language: Czech