Klaipėdos universitetas

This article reviews the problem of global citizenship education and foreign language teaching at pre-primary school level. The education of pre-primary school children is inseparable from knowledge of the world, communication in the mother tongue and in a foreign language, and the formation of values and patterns of social behaviour that are relevant to humanity. The pre-primary school age is the right age to encourage children to learn about their immediate environment, and to broaden their knowledge of other countries and natural and social phenomena in them. Global citizenship education should start at this age, enabling children to learn about, talk about and contribute to global issues at a local, national and global level, to engage children in social citizenship activities, and to contribute to a safe and sustainable environment. In the education of pre-primary school children, a foreign language has the function of building a social identity. The development of children’s foreign language skills in an educational institution also creates conditions for the development of children’s global citizenship. The article presents the partial results of an ethnographic study on the development of global citizenship and foreign language learning at pre-primary school level. The information obtained from the study confirms the usefulness of a foreign language for the global citizenship education of pre-primary school children. It shows that learning a foreign language helps not only to learn about world phenomena and to communicate, but also to develop global citizenship competences. Learning and using a foreign language help to share information not only about the immediate and distant environment, but also about countries and cultures of the world, it broadens the world-view of the pupils, forms positive attitudes towards other people, and strengthens the sense of community, encouraging people to work together to create a safe and sustainable environment.

The article presents the discourse of folk medicine concepts in contexts of historicity, the social environment, and scientificity category interfaces. One of the essential features of folk medicine is its intra-disciplinary nature, necessitating basing the already-mentioned categories on a context analysis of theoretical and practical approaches to folk medicine. The article consists of four parts, which correspond to the approaches of discourse analysis on the concept of folk medicine. The first part presents the anthropological evaluation of folk medicine approaches to the social environment, historicity and scientificity. The second part highlights the context of the historicity of folk medicine, which raises the question whether folk medicine is an endangered legacy or a changing tradition? The third part analyses the expression of folk medicine in approaches to the coverage of the social environment: from village to city, from nation to humanity. The fourth part leads to an evaluation of the interfaces between folk medicine and scientificity as a problem of rationality/irrationality. In conclusion, it is emphasised that by presenting the discourse of folk medicine concepts in the already-mentioned segments (social environment, historicity, scientificity), folk medicine’s theoretical and practical expression is evaluated in contexts of today’s and past experiences.

Studying Macedonian culture, we can not help noticing the particular role of folklore ensembles in fostering traditional music and dances, with a view to cherishing the national characteristics. This process is directed by the highest political bodies, which have disseminated the idea in a few spheres. Firstly, by means of actualization of certain matrices in the national folk ensemble Tanec, which was the benchmark followed by amateur ensembles. On the other hand, state television and radio MRTV, started broadcasting performances of folk music ensembles and programs with specific contents, i.e. where folklore prevailed. Analyzing the situation with the folk dance ensemble Tanec, we can notice that its Statute, as well as its first director Mr Manuel Chuchkov (senior political official) emphasized application, promotion and actualization of folklore in the context of socio-ideological engagement. Several papers written by Chuchkov, consider the usage of folk dances by placing them in historical and ideological contents. Such are the examples of folk dances from this period, into which drama elements are imputed, giving the dances specific historical features and being supposed to encourage patriotic feelings. Folklore used to be used as a tool in the socialist period, but it is still being actualized, in Macedonia nowadays.

The article presents the realization of singular nominative case of active voice past tense feminine gender participles. It discusses what information on derivation of this kind of participles is given in some Lithuanian linguistics studies (grammars, morphology textbooks, study books, encyclopaedias, etc.). The focus is on the modern usage of active voice past tense participles of feminine gender. The research is based on rich empirical material: examples are drawn from the texts of 27 authors (mainly works of poetry and prose) and Corpus of Contemporary Lithuanian Language (non-fiction, journalism, and spoken language). In the light of the analysis of the empirical material it is concluded that besides normative active voice feminine past tense participles with ending (dirbus-i), the modern language (especially in the artistic and journalistic texts) allows the usage of the variant without ending (dirbus) which is rarely mentioned in the works of linguistics.

The article studies history of formation and defines the main priorities in the activity of “the Union of the Ukrainian Professional Musicians in Lviv” during 1934–1939, in particular – in the activity of its performing section. New organizing methods in the preparation and conducting of the artistic events and formation of professional priorities and criteria have been characterized. Among more important aspects of “The Union of the Ukrainian Professional Musicians in Lviv” – organization of the thematic and jubilee concerts aimed at the active introduction of concert life in Lviv with the participation of the most brilliant Lviv composers and performers, organization and conducting of the performing contests, creation of music programs of the Ukrainian music on Lviv radio with the participation of the leading soloists-instrumentalists and chamber ensembles.

The article deals with the semantic analysis of antonymous Lithuanian adjectives šiltas–šaltas and their equivalents in English – adjectives warm–cold. Semantics and usage peculiarities of the adjectives are discussed and compared on the basis of corpus data, drawn from the Corpus of the Contemporary Lithuanian Language and the British National Corpus. Methods of corpus linguistics are applied to reveal collocability of the adjectives, prototypes and evaluation of the qualities they denote. Prototypical temperature meaning of the adjectives and its metaphorical extensions are discussed in the framework of cognitive linguistics (prototype theory and conceptual metaphor theory).

In the middle of the twentieth century, when European ethnomusicology started developing on the initiative of Bela Bartok, Filaret Kolessa and Stanislaw Lyudkevich, began to develop a methodology for the study of music dialects, the young Ukrainian scientist Volodymyr Hoshovsky joined the process. He went his own way. His innovative approach was to combine the work of related sciences: lingual geography and ethnomusicology. Ukrainian ethnomusicologist Vira Madyar-Novak examines the first publications of V. Hoshovsky in the context of music dialectology, expands and clarifies information about the early stage of his work.

2017 m. gegužės 11–12 d. Klaipėdoje vyko respublikinė mokslinė konferencija „Veritas Ethnologica: etnologijos doktorantų tyrimų gairės“. Konferencija siekiama kelti etnologijos mokslo krypties doktorantų disertacijų ir jų pagrindu atliekamų tyrimų kokybę, skatinti mokslinį bendradarbiavimą, diskusijas. Renginio pavadinimas sufleruoja, kad doktorantų susirinkime daugiausia dėmesio buvo skiriama atliktų, atliekamų, planuojamų tyrimų pristatymams, kuriais bandoma atskleisti vienokią ar kitokią tautos etninėje kultūroje perteikiamą „tiesą“. Jaunųjų mokslininkų susirinkime tyrimus iš viso pristatė šešiolika dalyvių iš Klaipėdos universiteto (KU), Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto (VDU), Lietuvos istorijos instituto (LII), Vilniaus universiteto (VU), Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademijos (LMTA), Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos instituto (LLTI).