Res Humanitariae

2015 m. anglų kalba buvo publikuotas Dariaus Barono ir Stepheno C. Rowello veikalas The Conversion of Lithuania: from Pagan Barbarians to Late Medieval Christians (resp. Lietuvos virsmas: pagonys barbarai tampa vėlyvųjų viduramžių krikščionimis).Recenzuojama knyga – Lietuvos istorijos instituto tyrėjų, šioje mokslo įstaigoje 2013–2015 m. vykdžiusių Europos struktūrinių fondų projektą, administruotą Lietuvos mokslo tarybos, „Lietuvos atsivertimas: pagonys barbarai tampa vėlyvųjų viduramžių krikščionimis“, finansuotą pagal Žmogiškųjų išteklių plėtros veiksmų programos 3 prioriteto „Tyrėjų gebėjimų stiprinimas“ VP1-3.1-ŠMM-07-K priemonę „Parama mokslininkų ir kitų tyrėjų mokslinei veiklai (visuotinė dotacija)“, veiklos rezultatas, kažkodėl išleista Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos instituto.

The article presents an analysis of Lithuanian folk entomonyms (insect names). The methodological approach is based on complex linguistic research, where semasiological and onomasiological aspects are combined. The main sources of empirical material are the LKŽe and 13 dialect dictionaries. Detailed analysis of lexicographical sources helped to establish the boundaries of the thematic group of entomonyms. Entomonyms are studied as the result of a nomination and motivation process. The analysis helped to determine the relationship between motivated and unmotivated members of the thematic group, the dominant nomination types, ways, instruments, the most important features of motivation, and the variety of models of motivation.

The aim of the authors is to distinguish the ethical values’ promotion opportunities in foreign language acquisition process at primary school by use of the synergy of the teacher trainers and the emerging teachers.The article focuses on the semantic lexical units reflecting ethical values in foreign language text-books and innovative practices introduced with the aim to establish their input into development of learners’ abilities, skills and competencies, emotional and aesthetic experiences, self-assessment, communication experience, creativity, comprehension and assessment of culture diversity.

The article analyzes the links between the hymnals of Prussian Lithuanians (M. Mažvydas, B. Vilentas, A. F. Šimelpenigis and others) and local German publications until 1750. It is assumed that the Prussian Lithuanians prepared their official hymns by using books relied on indigenous Germans. The main conclusion was that Prussia and all diferent national groups had a common treasure of hymns, which could be freely adjusted and supplemented.

Johann Jacob Quandt (1686–1772), professor primarius of theology at the University of Königsberg, chief court preacher, and General Superintendent of Prussia, is known as a publisher of Lithuanian books, supervisor of the Lithuanian Language Seminar, and a historiographer of Lithuanian writings. Quandt made his name as one of the first historiographers of Lithuanian writings by German forewords in Lithuanian books published under his guidance, the first printed Bible (11735), hymnal Iß naujo pérweizdėtos ir pagérintos Giesmû-Knygos (11732) and postil Trumpas ir prástas Ißguldimas wissû Nedėlês ir ßwentû Dienû Ewangeliû (11750). The article deals with the information on Lithuanian writings presented by Quandt in the manuscript Preußische Presbyterologie (Prussian Presbyterology, before 1772), which is currently stored in Berlin, in the Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (GStA PK: XX. HA Hist. StA Königsberg, Hs, Nr. 2, Bd. 1–5).

Straipsnyje pristatomi Žemaitijoje randami ir išlikę seniausi lėlių teatro raiškos pavidalai, lėlių naudojimas natūralioje aplinkoje, nuo bažnytinių švenčių iki pramoginių ar šviečiamųjų veiklų su lėlėmis namų aplinkoje. Straipsnyje aptariami lėlių teatro šaltiniai etninėje kultūroje, supažindinama su meninės lėlių teatro ženklų kalbos pradžia spontaniškajame lėlių teatro raidos etape, nuo lėlės ir kaukės pavidalų etninėje kultūroje, religinėse apeigose iki vaidinimų su lėlėmis namų aplinkoje, šeimos šventėse. Pristatomi autentiški Žemaitijos miestelių ir kaimų gyventojų liudijimai – tikras lobis tyrinėjantiems šio regiono daiktiškąją ir nematerialiąją kultūros paveldo tradiciją, ją įvesdinant į krašto etninės kultūros erdvę.

The article analyses the tendencies of the expression of the relation between the addresser and the addressee in the first Lithuanian advertisements, published in the periodicals Aušra, Varpas and Židinys at the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The relation between the addresser and the addressee is considered to be one of the ways to achieve the peripheral persuasion effect. Attempts are made to perceive these relations in the article by analysing the linguistic expression in terms of pragmatic linguistics and stylistics, by means of which the addresser names the addressee and expresses a request-persuasion to purchase the advertised product. Since advertising is one of the most popular public genres entrenched in the present-day language, indirectly but considerably affecting not only the standard language development, but also the culture of communication, when analysing the tendencies of the expression of the relation between the addresser and the addressee in the first advertisements, the research results have been evaluated with respect to the rules of the general principle of politeness.

The article seeks to emphasize peculiarity of reception of the oeuvre of Prussian Lithuanian philosopher and writer Vydūnas. The author represents analysis of the literary polemic between Lithuanian writers Balys Sruoga and Julijonas Lindė-Dobilas. This polemic arose from B. Sruoga’s sharp review written for Vydūnas’s mystery play Jūrų varpai. Subsequently Vydūnas involves himself in to polemic with B. Sruoga which developed into direct literary controversy. The article discusses not only question about intricacy of Vydūnas’s works but seeks to answer the question: why B. Sruoga rejects professional critical evaluation of the play and insistently holds an opinion that Vidūnas’s oeuvre is unacceptable for Lithuanian reader. The article also introduces how after a few years changed B. Sruoga’s attitude in respect to Vydūnas’s personality and his oeuvre.

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 communicative failures of journalists in “YouTube” celebrity video interviews in the Ukrainian and German linguacultures from the point of view of social interaction and the theory of speech genres at all structural levels of the communicative genre construction, establishing common and distinctive features in both linguacultures. The analysis made it possible to conclude that behind a language (speech) failure there is a violation caused by a journalist, a respondent, or an external noise.