Memorial Epigraphic Inscriptions of the Polish-Belarusian Borderland: Collective Memory and Commemoration Practices. Cover Image

Мемориальная эпиграфика польско-белорусского пограничья: коллективная память и практики коммеморации
Memorial Epigraphic Inscriptions of the Polish-Belarusian Borderland: Collective Memory and Commemoration Practices.

Author(s): Oľga Vladislavovna Belova, Marya Vladimirovna Jasinskaya
Subject(s): Sociolinguistics, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Slavistický ústav Jána Stanislava Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: Ethno-cultural borderland; language contacts; graphics; memorial epigraphy; gravestones; commemoration practices;

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the ethnolinguistic analysis of memorial inscriptions on memorial and votive crosses, tombstones and monuments surveyed during field research in Podlasie province (Hajnówka and Bielsk regions) in 2017– 2020 where the Belarusian population lives compactly.

  • Issue Year: 55/2020
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 346-358
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian
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