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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).

Kad neliktų užmarštyje kai kurie praėjusio šimtmečio faktai, tikslinga juos priminti, pateikiant trumpą lietuvių kalbos dėstymo apžvalgą Italijos universitetuose, ypač akcentuojant lygiai prieš keturiasdešimt metų prasidėjusį etapą, kuriame po pasyvaus lietuvių kalbos mokymosi iš knygų ji ėmė gyvai skambėti Milano katalikų universiteto auditorijose. Vėliau lietuvių kalba pradėta dėstyti kaip baltų filologijos kursų sudedamoji dalis Florencijos ir Pizos universitetuose, o nuo 2005 m. Parmos univesitete ji dėstoma kaip savarankiška disciplina.

2020 metų lapkričio 25-ąją Lietuvos akademinę bendruomenę pasiekė skaudi žinia iš Parmos (Italija) – čia staiga mirė Lietuvos mokslų akademijos užsienio narys, Lietuvių katalikų mokslo akademijos akademikas, Klaipėdos universiteto Garbės daktaras prof. habil. dr. Gvidas Mikelinis (Guido Michelini).

Reformacija – religinis ir visuomeninis sąjūdis – padarė didžiulį kultūrinį ir socialinį poveikį Lietuvai bei kitoms Europos šalims, skatino politinės ir visuomeninės minties plėtotę, tapo akstinu valstybių ir visuomenių modernizacijai. Reformacija iškėlė gimtosios kalbos svarbą, paspartino nacionalinių kultūrų ir mokslo raidą. Reformacija nesiribojo religiniu sąjūdžiu ir nesibaigė kartu su juo. Ji tapo drąsių, subrandintų, iš sąstingio išvaduojančių proveržių metafora. Klaipėdos universiteto Humanitarinių ir ugdymo mokslų fakultete 2017 m. lapkričio 16 d. vykusioje 4-ojoje tarptautinėje tarpdalykinėje mokslinėje konferencijoje „Tradicijos ir modernybės sąveika“, skirtoje 500-osioms Reformacijos metinėms, Lietuvos ir užsienio šalių pranešėjai kalbėjo apie Reformacijos teologiją ir filosofiją, Reformaciją ir jos santykį su kultūros istorija, kalba, literatūra, menu, etnine kultūra.