The Shibboleth Incident (Judges 12:5-6) as a Migratory Narrative Folklore Motif = Zgodba o šiboletu (Sodniki 12,5-6) kot migracijski pripovedni motiv
Shibboleth is a special sociolinguistic category, denoting a functional communicative mechanism; a word, a phrase, or merely just a phoneme used as a test or a marker to identify people through their pronunciation. The term and the concept originate in a short passage in the Old Testament of the Bib...
| Subtitles: | Zgodba o šiboletu (Sodniki 12,5-6) kot migracijski pripovedni motiv |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2024
|
| In: |
Edinost in dialog
Year: 2024, Volume: 79, Issue: 1, Pages: 185-206 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Judge 12,5-6
/ Shibboleth
/ Linguistics
/ Environmental factor
/ Folklore studies
|
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
shibboleth incident
B Comparative Analysis B preizkus s šiboletom B folkloristika B Knjiga sodnikov B the book of judges B ekotipi B šibolet B primerjalna analiza B ecotypes B folklore studies B shibboleth test |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (kostenfrei) Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | Shibboleth is a special sociolinguistic category, denoting a functional communicative mechanism; a word, a phrase, or merely just a phoneme used as a test or a marker to identify people through their pronunciation. The term and the concept originate in a short passage in the Old Testament of the Bible, Book of Judges, chapter 12, verses 5 and 6 – called The Shibboleth incident – which describes a language trial administered by the Gileadites in order to identify disguised Ephraimites and kill them. Throughout history in different parts of the world, strikingly similar stories have emerged, set in comparable contextual circumstances of inter-ethnic bloodshed. In the article, a comprehensive folkloristic comparative analysis of various shibboleth accounts is presented, prompting a question if these stories are standalone narrative material; or if they are rather individual articulations (ecotypes) of an otherwise shared timeless migratory narrative folklore motif. Šibolet je posebna sociolingvistična kategorija oziroma funkcijski komunikacijski mehanizem – beseda, besedna zveza ali zgolj fonem, ki se uporablja kot preizkus (oziroma kot označevalec) identitete posameznikov prek njihove izgovarjave. Termin in koncept izhajata iz kratkega odlomka iz Stare zaveze Svetega pisma, kjer v 12. poglavju Knjige sodnikov v 5. in 6. vrstici beremo o jezikovnem preizkusu, ki so ga izvedli Gileadci, da bi v svojih vrstah prepoznali preoblečene Efrajimce ter jih ubili. Zgodovinopisje in pripovedna folklora pa skozi čas in na različnih koncih sveta »beležita« presenetljivo podobne zgodbe, vpete v primerljive kontekste medetničnega prelivanja krvi. V članku je predstavljena obsežna folkloristična primerjalna analiza različnih zgodovinskih primerov uporabe tega jezikovnega preizkusa, pri čemer se zastavlja vprašanje, ali gre pri posameznih pričevanjih za nepovezane pripovedne artefakte ali pa le za posamezne artikulacije (pripovedne ekotipe) sicer občečloveškega in brezčasnega ter v času in prostoru potujočega pripovednega folklornega motiva. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2385-8907 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Edinost in dialog
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.34291/Edinost/79/01/Kvartic |