Repetition is a natural phenomenon employed to perform a variety of cognitive, psychological, interactional, stylistic, didactic and pragmatic functions in spoken and written discourse. Adopting the method of discourse analysis, the study attempts to explore the pragmatic functions of repetitions as used in spoken dialect narrative discourse. On a propositional level, only those repetitions which establish and maintain co-reference are necessary, all other forms seem to be redundant. However, if we take into account their pragmatic functions, they are not, as the data gathered in the study show. In fact, speakers use them, deliberately or not, as an effective communication strategy in the following functions: to extend the planning time to find a suitable lexeme, to enhance the importance of a lexeme, to emphasize the length of an event, after an interruption, to eliminate uncertainty and to confirm the correctness of the co-speaker’s statement. They also reveal the speakers emotions, like his/her emotional shock, and are used as a part of the so-called conversational duet. The data include the transcripts of the interviews with 6 dialect speakers in the Brda/Collio region, western Slovenia.

V raziskavi so prikazana odstopanja od knjižnih besednorednih pravil v nadiških in briških govorih. Podrobneje so predstavljeni: stava pridevniškega ujemalnega prilastka v samostalniški besedni zvezi, stava prostih naslonk in zaporedje naslonk v naslons-kem nizu, besedni red v povedi, ki jo uvede členek oziroma prislovno določilo kraja ali časa, besedni red v zloženi povedi z odvisnikom ter pravilo stave izpostavljenega stavčnega člena. Ugotavlja se tudi, ali je treba vsa odstopanja pripisati vplivu stičnih romanskih jezikov ali pa gre morda le za posebnosti govorjenega jezika.

The paper discusses the intertwined relationship between identity construction, language practices and language ideologies of Slovenes and Friulians in the Province of Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. We are dealing with two indigenous linguistic minorities whose native language was historically restricted to the private sphere of life. However, due to altered social conditions of decentralization and globalization, the ever-increasing use of these languages outside private sphere has been noticed. The phenomenon will be illuminated by the statements of the members of both linguistic minorities. The final part of the paper will present the reawakening of a dying culture and language of the village of Topolove through an art festival, called Postaja Topolove/Stazione Topolò, whose basic concept is to avoid folklorism and create the most advanced artwork search.Izvleček: Članek predstavlja prepleten odnos med vzpostavljanjem identitete, identitetnimi praksami in jezikovnimi ideologijami, kot se kaže pri Slovencih in Furlanih v Videmski pokrajini Furlanije-Julijske krajine v Italiji. Gre za dve avtohtoni jezikovni manjšini, pri katerih je bil materni jezik v preteklosti omejen na zasebno sfero življenja, v spremenjenih družbenih razmerah decentralizacije in globalizacije pa je opaziti njuno vse pogostejšo rabo tudi izven zasebnega okolja, kar bomo v prispevku dokazovali z izjavami govorcev obeh jezikovnih manjšin. V zadnjem delu prispevka bo osvetljeno oživljanje izumirajoče kulture in jezika vasi Topolove v Beneški Sloveniji skozi umetnost na primeru festivala Postaja Topolove/Stazione Topolò, katerega osnovni koncept je izogibanje folklorizmu in ustvarjanje najnaprednejšega umetniškega iskanja.

In the past, Slovene spoken in the Province of Udine and Friulian, mainly spoken in the Provinces Udine, Pordenone and Gorizia of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, were limited to the private sphere, but recently, they are becoming more seen and heard in public life, i.e. outside their traditional communication situations. The change can be attributed to the changes in the perception of their mother tongue in the Slovene and Friulian communities themselves in relation to the prevailing Italian language, the use of which implied a more prestigious position in society in the past, as well as to the change of attitudes towards the two minority languages among the majority population. Changes of discursive practices are occurring hand in hand with changes in identity practices. The paper presents a qualitative study on the topic in which 22 sociolinguistic interviews with the speakers of Friulian and the Slovene were carried out.

This article focuses on the formation and use of impersonal (non-finite) verb forms, the formation of subordinate clauses, and the use of subordinating conjunctions in the local dialect of Subit (in the Municipality of Attimis) of the Slovenian Torre dialect in Italy. It also presents the influence of Romance contact languages on the syntax of the Subit dialect. The author distinguishes between borrowing of syntactic patterns, linguistic influence on the frequency of using structures, and the influence of contact languages on spreading the structure’s function by analogy.