Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics SAS
Topic
Interstate Treaty as Part of The Public Discourse Between The Holy See and The Slovak Republic - Diachronic and Synchronic Aspect
PhD. program
Year of admission
2026
Name of the supervisor
prof. Peter Olekšák, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre
Annotation
The topic of the dissertation assumes the synergy of linguistic-stylistic analytical procedures and diplomatically and legally binding norms. Knowledge and respect for conventions in the diplomatic sphere and especially in informal as well as formal communication are anticipated. Informal communication is viewed as an obligatory phase of contacts between two state entities, which precedes subsequent binding negotiations culminating in the signing of international documents of the highest level with relevant legal force.
The dissertation is based on the historical context of the conclusion of an interstate treaty between the Holy See and the Slovak Republic. The history of treaties with state entities, of which the Slovaks were a part at a time when they did not have an independent state entity, is emphasized. The history and wording of the aforementioned type of interstate treaty influenced the creation and nature of the interstate treaty between the Holy See and the Slovak Republic after its establishment as an independent state entity, in both its content and form.
In the modern history of the independent Slovak Republic, there is an explicitly demonstrable social, political and media discourse that accompanied this international act, or which preceded it. Its analysis and interpretation are expected in separate parts of the dissertation.
The dissertation anticipates reflecting on the principles of diplomatic communication, relevant contemporary conventions at the level of linguistic representation, text composition, its obligatory parts and communication conventions, phrases and addresses. All of the aforementioned phenomena can be described and analyzed in their historical development and compared with current formulations. Similarly, a comparison of the current wording and adherence to conventions in treaties with the Holy See may be relevant in the case of states that were part of, or their historical predecessors, Slovaks.
The author of the dissertation should base his/her work on the history of diplomacy and on the analysis of authentic texts of interstate treaties with the Holy See as well as on archival textual sources. Linguistic analysis assumes as a starting point a linguistic-stylistic phenomenon that the contemporary percipient perceives as dominant. This can be at the level of the motivational-thematic concept, as well as at the level of communicative phrases, addresses or implicatures stemming from the syntactic representation of the text.
The subject of the research is the contemporary interstate treaty between the Holy See and the Slovak Republic, a set of relevant treaties in the history of other state entities in which the majority Slovak ethnic group lived, and the reflection of the aforementioned international act in the media discourse of the Slovak Republic.
Methodologically, the work is based on discursive linguistics and knowledge of text linguistics. Research methods should be discourse analysis, narrative-discursive analysis, linguistic-comparative analysis, or sociological research methods to determine the attitudes of Slovak citizens. Work with the database of texts in the Slovak National Corpus is expected.
The dissertation is based on the historical context of the conclusion of an interstate treaty between the Holy See and the Slovak Republic. The history of treaties with state entities, of which the Slovaks were a part at a time when they did not have an independent state entity, is emphasized. The history and wording of the aforementioned type of interstate treaty influenced the creation and nature of the interstate treaty between the Holy See and the Slovak Republic after its establishment as an independent state entity, in both its content and form.
In the modern history of the independent Slovak Republic, there is an explicitly demonstrable social, political and media discourse that accompanied this international act, or which preceded it. Its analysis and interpretation are expected in separate parts of the dissertation.
The dissertation anticipates reflecting on the principles of diplomatic communication, relevant contemporary conventions at the level of linguistic representation, text composition, its obligatory parts and communication conventions, phrases and addresses. All of the aforementioned phenomena can be described and analyzed in their historical development and compared with current formulations. Similarly, a comparison of the current wording and adherence to conventions in treaties with the Holy See may be relevant in the case of states that were part of, or their historical predecessors, Slovaks.
The author of the dissertation should base his/her work on the history of diplomacy and on the analysis of authentic texts of interstate treaties with the Holy See as well as on archival textual sources. Linguistic analysis assumes as a starting point a linguistic-stylistic phenomenon that the contemporary percipient perceives as dominant. This can be at the level of the motivational-thematic concept, as well as at the level of communicative phrases, addresses or implicatures stemming from the syntactic representation of the text.
The subject of the research is the contemporary interstate treaty between the Holy See and the Slovak Republic, a set of relevant treaties in the history of other state entities in which the majority Slovak ethnic group lived, and the reflection of the aforementioned international act in the media discourse of the Slovak Republic.
Methodologically, the work is based on discursive linguistics and knowledge of text linguistics. Research methods should be discourse analysis, narrative-discursive analysis, linguistic-comparative analysis, or sociological research methods to determine the attitudes of Slovak citizens. Work with the database of texts in the Slovak National Corpus is expected.