Res Humanitariae

This article analyses and compares life narratives from the previous and currently working librarians of Ukmergė district between the time period of 2016–2018. The analysed narratives reveal the most distinct connections between identity of librarians and their professional activity, and reflect the realia of cultural and social life. Comparison of previous and current narratives reveals experiences of different generations having the same profession, what helps to understand how the specific features of human personality reveal in a specific time period. The narratives of librarians reveal the importance of the community when accepting a cultural worker to a team and supporting him/her, also the role of a library as a “shelter” for the community groups that are considered outcasts becomes apparent, and the supplementary social roles of a librarian are revealed.

This article presents a research concluded in 2016, which aimed to unveil how social and cultural issues were represented in Lithuanian rap music. The research shows that social, political and valuable reflections of the state and people are the most reflected by rap texts. It is revealed that rap music helps not only to evaluate, analyze phenomena in the country, but also helps to change, rebuild, and understand them. Research on rap lyrics helps to understand the attitude of hip-hop subculture members towards different events and at the same time look at them from another perspective.

The article deals with the construction of a frame-based scenario model of national cooperative communicative behavior as a cognitively semiotic and discursively pragmatic phenomenon in Ukrainian, Russian, Lithuanian and American linguocultures. The slot organization of the script of the national cooperative communicative behavior has been determined and characterized based on the discursive practices as the sign structures of the communicative consciousness of Ukrainians, Russians, Lithuanians and Americans.

The aim of this paper is, by using Computational linguistics method to analyse collocations of ethnonyms leiši and lietuvieši ‘Lithuanians’ in “Balanced Corpus of Modern Latvian” (Līdzsvarots mūsdienu latviešu valodas tekstu korpuss), compare contextual semantics of both ethnonyms. Comparing the frequency of use of the lexemes lietuvieši and leiši ‘Lithuanians’ in the modern Latvian language text corpus, the prevalence of the ethnonym lietuvieši is evident, therefore, the ethnonym leiši, regardless of its use as synonymic designation (sometimes in one and the same text), can be considered as an obsolete word. The desemantisation cases of the ethnonym leiši, detected in the corpus, show its oldness and varied functionality in Latvian language. The evidences to prove the statement of the “Modern Latvian Language Dictionary” (Mūsdienu latviešu valodas vārdnīca) that the lexeme leiši nowadays “carries slightly pejorative stylistically expressive colouring” were not found in the text corpus. In general, the image of a Lithuanian reflected in the modern Latvian language text corpus is rather positive – mostly in historical, language, culture and sports contexts, yet in the context of economics and emigration rather negative impression of Lithuanians is expressed.

This article analyzes the question of the correct use of the phrases for the verb aptarnauti or the forms of this verb. The article discusses the semantic structure of these words and their disparate interpretation in the dictionaries of Lithuanian language. The data is collected from the Corpus of Modern Lithuanian Language, the sources of various functional styles, and the survey shows the real usage of the verb aptarnauti (and the noun aptarnavimas). The correctness of the usage of the examples is analyzed and special attention is given to some problematic cases that require more detailed analysis. This research indicates that some of the phrases, which users view as incorrect, comply with the language norm and specifically describe the characteristics that can help distinguish correct phrases from incorrect phrases.

The article provides with psychoanalysis of the story titled Traumnovelle (Rhapsody: A Dream Novel, also known as Dream Story), written by Arthur Schnitzler, representative of the Viennese modernist style, that decodes intricate forms of mental life from unconscious instincts, libido. The reader is exposed to the characters’ affection, that of the therapist Fridolin and his wife Albertina, who play each other up with immodest confessions about their erotic affection. The article uncovers the action mode of the story, which is on the verge between dream and reality, consciousness and unconsciousness, peculiarities of feelings exposure through the characters’ imagination, structurally similar to a dream, is reviewed as well. The article examines the motivational structure of Albertina’s behavior, determined by “primary affection”, activity of her psychics, regulated by “satisfaction principle”, and that of Fridolin, based on “reality principle”, where functional activity is coherent with human needs and external reality conditions. The article investigates the motive of a mask as a symbol of transformation, acquisition of anonymity by losing individuality (Fridolin’s participation in a sado-masochistic orgy at villa of secret society) and as an opposition to the husband real-life adventure – Albertina’s dream, revealing frustration and pleasure from a married woman’s revenge for the imposed role of serving her husband. It is concluded that the art, as well as a dream, makes it possible to get released for some period of time from a social role and a consciousness censorship.

Національна кооперативна комунікативна поведінка: від когніції до дискурсу: монографія / І. Р. Корольов; відп. ред. О. С. Снитко. – Київ: ВПЦ “Київський університет”, 2018. – 519 с.

2018 m. rugpjūčio 18-ąją Klaipėdos universiteto bendruomenė, visa Klaipėdos miesto inteligentija buvo sukrėsta skaudžios ir netikėtos žinios – Anapusybėn išėjo Aleksandras Žalys (1951 10 26–2018 08 18)  – kolega, bičiulis, mokytojas, bendražygis – asmenybė, kuriai net turtingoje lietuvių kalboje, ko gero, stinga žodžių visapusiškai apibūdinti.

2018 m. birželio 15–16 d. Klaipėdos universitete vyko 4-oji tarptautinė tarpdalykinė mokslinė konferencija „Baltų kalbos ir kultūros 4“. Baltijos valstybių šimtmečio proga surengtoje konferencijoje diskutuota apie svarbiausius kultūrinės tapatybės ženklus – kalbą, tautinę ir valstybinę savimonę, istorinį ir kultūrinį paveldą, šių dėmenų tarpusavio sąveiką, funkcijas ir vertes, iškilusias grėsmes ir uždavinius globalizacijos sąlygomis. Konferencijos moto saugotina sutelkė įvairių sričių mokslininkus kalbėti svarbiomis temomis: kokie kalbinio ir kultūrinio paveldo objektai ir/ar elementai verti apsaugos ir kodėl, koks yra jų ištirtumo lygis, kokios tyrimo kryptys vaisingos, kaip tyrimai pritaikomi ir koks rezultatas.