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Slavic studies

Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a linguist or philologist researching Slavistics. Increasingly, historians, social scientists, and other humanists who study Slavic cultures and societies have been included in this rubric.

In North America, Slavic studies is dominated by Russian studies. Ewa Thompson, a professor of Slavic studies at Rice University, described the situation of non-Russian Slavic studies as "invisible and mute".[1]

History[edit]

Slavistics emerged in late 18th and early 19th century, simultaneously with Romantic nationalism among various Slavic nations, and ideological attempts to establish a common sense of Slavic community, exemplified by the Pan-Slavist movement. Among the first scholars to use the term was Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829).


The history of Slavic studies can be divided into three periods. Until 1876 the early Slavists concentrated on documentation and printing of monuments of Slavic languages, among them the first texts written in national languages. At this time the majority of Slavic languages received their first modern dictionaries, grammars and compendia. The second period, ending with World War I, featured the rapid development of Slavic philology and linguistics, most notably outside of Slavic countries themselves, in the circle formed around August Schleicher (1821–1868) and around August Leskien (1840–1916) at the University of Leipzig. At this time, Slavonic scholars focused on dialectology.


After World War II there were developed centers of Slavic studies, and much greater expansion into other humanities and social science disciplines in various universities around the world. Indeed, partly due to the political concerns in Western European and the United States about the Cold War. Slavic studies flourished in the years from World War II into the 1990s, though university enrollments in Slavic languages have declined since then.

Belarusian studies

Bosniac

Czech studies

Following the traditional division of Slavs into three subgroups (eastern, southern, western), Slavic studies are also divided into three distinctive subfields:

language

Archiv für slavische Philologie

The Russian Review

Sarmatian Review

published by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

Slavic and East European Journal

Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics

The Slavonic and East European Review

Scando-Slavica

Wiener Slawistischer Almanach

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics

Moscow, Russia

Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics, , Bratislava, Slovakia

Slovak Academy of Sciences

Institute of Slavic Studies, , Warsaw, Poland

Polish Academy of Sciences

Institute of Slavonic Studies, , Prague, Czechia

Czech Academy of Sciences

(AATSEEL)

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

(ASEEES)

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

(ACTR)

American Council of Teachers of Russian

Balkan studies

Indo-European studies

Byzantine studies

List of linguists

Outline of Slavic history and culture

Greenberg, Robert D. (2004). . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-151455-5.

Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and its Disintegration

(in English and French)

Canadian Association of Slavists

Archived 2009-02-26 at the Wayback Machine

List of Journals in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Slavic Review

(ASEEES)

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

The Slavistics Portal (Germany)

Slavistik-Portal

André, Mazon (November 1946). . The Slavonic and East European Review. 25 (64).

"Slavonic studies in France"

Maslenikov, Oleg A. (April 1947). . The Slavonic and East European Review. 25 (65).

"Slavic studies in America, 1939–1946"

Association of Slavists POLYSLAV

Slavic Linguistics Society