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Unveiling Messapic Funerary Discourse
Full text linkMessapic, an ancient language from the 6th to the 2nd century BC in Southern Italy, remains a linguistically enigmatic and poorly understood entity, has been traditionally classified as an extinct language. Current scholarship predominantly views Messapic epigraphy as primarily consisting of personal names, anthroponyms, and theonyms. However, attempts to linguistically classify and interpret it within the broader framework of Greek, Latin, or other ancient languages have yielded limited insights. This article investigates Messapic epigraphy as a potential descendant of Proto-Albanian and reveals intriguing parallels with classical Albanian. The chosen exemplars challenge the prevailing assumption that Messapic is an extinct language, presenting it in a new light and underscoring its enduring linguistic and cultural legacy. This is notably exemplified through a distinctive funerary discourse that serves as a hallmark of the Messapic language
Facing Mortality: Exploring Existentialist Motif of Death in the Selected Novels by McCarthy, Zhadan, and Müller
Full text linkThis study represents the first scholarly endeavour to investigate the existentialist motif of death within the works of renowned authors from the United States and Europe: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Herta Müller’s Atemschaukel (2009), and Serhii Zhadan’s Internat (2017). Employing a multifaceted methodological approach, this research utilises close reading to identify representations of the death experience, an interpretative lens to uncover and categorise imagery, allusions, and symbols related to death, and a comparative analysis based on the point-by-point method to juxtapose the literary representations of death across the selected novels. Through this study, three distinct forms of death emerge: the cessation of life, the moral decay of humanity, and the demise of nature. This study delves into these forms, which are most prominently depicted in each novel, to provide a comprehensive understanding of the nature of death at the dawn of the 21st century. The selection of these novels is predicated on their shared thematic concerns, including survival in hostile environments and extreme experiences such as isolation, alienation, and ultimately, death
Apie gaidį ir „žemčiūgą“: žvilgsnis į XIX amžiaus lietuvių literatūrinę savimonę
Full text linkThis article examines seven different renditions of Aesop’s fable “The Rooster and the Pearl”, written by various 19th-century Lithuanian authors. The aim is to show how these texts reflect the demands of early readers and the literary consciousness of 19th-century Lithuanian society. The differences in the texts and their significant features are revealed by comparing them with each other and with the original sources, where such sources can be identified. Of particular interest is the inclusion of Lithuanian elements in these narratives, typically used for their evocative imagery or to capture the reader’s attention. The influence of social and cultural life on literature is bidirectional. As societies change over time in cultural, ethical and other ways, these changes inevitably affect literary production. The ethical perspective is relevant to the plot of The Rooster and the Pearl, but the specificity of the texts analysed is determined more by aesthetic and persuasive qualities, thus serving as precursors to shifts in literary consciousness.Straipsnyje aptariami septyni skirtingų laikotarpių ir autorių pasakėčios „Gaidys ir perlas“ variantai siekiant pabrėžti, kaip juose atsispindi pirmųjų skaitytojų poreikiai ir XIX a. visuomenės literatūrinė savimonė. Tekstų skirtumai, jų reikšmingi bruožai išryškėja lyginant juos tarpusavyje ir su originalais, kuriais buvo sekta ar kurie buvo versti – tuo atveju, jei tie originalai žinomi. Dar vienas itin įdomus aspektas – lietuviškieji tekstų elementai, autorių dažniausiai naudojami siekiant vaizdingumo ar norint pritraukti skaitytoją.
Visuomeninio, kultūrinio gyvenimo poveikis literatūrai nėra vienakryptis, ir tai iš dalies yra kūrinio atsiradimo priežastis. Laikui bėgant visuomenė keičiasi kultūriniu, politiniu, vertybiniu ir kitais požiūriais. „Gaidžio ir perlo“ siužete vertybinis požiūris yra aktualiausias, ir vis dėlto nagrinėjamų tekstų specifiką lemia labiau ne vertybinės savybės, o estetika ir numanomas poveikis, – ir tai savaip kloja pagrindus literatūrinės savimonės kaitai
London in the Novels by Robert Galbraith: a text-world perspective
Full text linkThe Strike series of contemporary crime fiction novels by Robert Galbraith exhibits an abundance of descriptions of real-life London. The aim of this article is to explore their functions in the context of the author’s works.
Characteristic properties of the cityscapes in the novels are the merged perspectives of the omniscient narrator and a character, foregrounded details, contrasts in images and attitudes, and the use of metaphor and personification. Text World Theory allows us to explain how they aid in constructing mental representations, or text-worlds, of the city and examine functions fulfilled by the depictions of London in R. Galbraith’s fiction: (1) emphasising connectedness between the discourse- and text-worlds, (2) creating an atmospheric background, (3) broadening readers’ understanding of characters, (4) making London a character in its own right, (5) advancing the story. The first function is typical of all the text-worlds analysed; it indicates the real-world nature of fictional information as a distinctive feature of the Strike series
Campus Life in Contemporary Polish, Slovak, and Ukrainian Fiction
Full text linkThe article focuses on the image of campus life as presented in a selection of novels written in Polish, Slovak, and Ukrainian after 1989. The author presents generic peculiarities of Slavic campus fiction and analyses the theme of (academic) coming-of-age in Slavic campus fiction. The maturation of student characters in Maryna Hrymych’s Yura and Pavol Parkov’s The Legend About the Language occurred in Soviet Ukraine and Czechoslovakia, respectively, around 1968. In contrast, the protagonists of Jagoda Grudzień’s Erasmopeja and Tania Kalytenko’s Antero undergo academic identity formation in contemporary Scandinavian countries as participants in academic exchange programs. While Hrymych and Rankov portray characters navigating totalitarian societies of the past, Grudzień and Kalytenko situate their students within the anxieties of the globalised world, where remembering the past remains crucial. The author concludes that contemporary campus fiction written in Slavic languages addresses the issues significant for the cultural memory of the particular nation. Collectively, these novels contribute to a sense of continuity in academic culture within East-Central Europe
A Taste of Metaphor Variation: Contrasting the Metaphorical Extensions of “stew” and “guisar”
Full text linkThis article examines the range of metaphors activated by the cooking term stew in English and its Spanish counterpart guisar. The data were drawn from Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and Corpus del Español: Web and Dialects. The metaphors were identified by applying MIP (Pragglejaz Group, 2007) and incorporating semantic frames (Fillmore, 1982) to provide a detailed analysis of the mappings between the core frame elements involved, and the thematic roles performed by those elements. The results suggest that English and Spanish diverge considerably regarding the metaphors evoked by stew and guisar. The lemma stew activated a broader scope of metaphorical extensions than guisar. Just one shared metaphor was identified, which underscores the presence of distinct cognitive preferences within the respective languages
Dorośli ze spektrum autyzmu w teatrze życia społecznego
Full text linkRecenzja książki Andrzeja Kominka pt. O osobach, które nie potrafią odgrywać ról społecznych. Studium socjologiczno-językowe, Wydawnictwo Libron, Kraków 2023, ss. 174, ISBN 978-83-67209-33-5.Recenzja książki Andrzeja Kominka pt. O osobach, które nie potrafią odgrywać ról społecznych. Studium socjologiczno-językowe, Wydawnictwo Libron, Kraków 2023, ss. 174, ISBN 978-83-67209-33-5
Naujos tyrimų atodangos Kristijono Donelaičio lauke ir prakalbinta Antika
Full text linkDalia Dilytė. Kristijono Donelaičio kūrybos ir jos sklaidos atodangos: monografija. Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2023.
Dalia Dilytė. Antikos prakalbinimas: monografija. Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024.Dalia Dilytė. Kristijono Donelaičio kūrybos ir jos sklaidos atodangos: monografija. Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2023.
Dalia Dilytė. Antikos prakalbinimas: monografija. Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024
