Res Humanitariae

Seniai visiems žinomas posakis apie genio bei pasaulio margumą tinka ir šiam žurnalo numeriui. Dėl dviejų priežasčių: pirmoji – publikacijų autoriai – įvairių Lietuvos ir užsienio universitetų mokslininkai; antroji – septyni straipsniai skirti literatūros mokslų, kiek mažiau (keturi) – kalbotyros, vienas – kultūros istorijos problemoms aptarti; taip pat publikuojama viena recenzija ir vienos tarptautinės konferencijos apžvalga. Oponentai gali sakyti: kam toks margumynas, ar nebūtų prasmingiau leidinį paskirti įvairiapusei vienos mokslo krypties problemų analizei. Dar kartą primenu, jog žurnalo redakcijos kolegija nuo pat pirmojo numerio aiškiai apsisprendė: „RES HUMANITARIAE – Klaipėdos universiteto leidinys, skirtas humanitariniams mokslams. Jame skelbiami filologijos (kalbotyros ir literatūrologijos), filosofijos <...> moksliniai straipsniai, recenzuojami reikšmingesni mokslo veikalai, apžvelgiami svarbesni akademinio gyvenimo įvykiai (žr. RES HUMANITARIAE I. Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 2007, 3). Taip liks ir ateityje.

Šiame straipsnyje naujai – pasitelkiant imagologijos teoriją – perskaitomas didžiausias Ievos Simonaitytės romanas „Vilius Karalius“ (1977-ųjų leidimas). Parodomas ne tik prancūzų imagologo Daniel-Henri Pageaux išskirtų požiūrių (manijos, fobijos, filijos bei idiokrazijos) į kitą kultūrą išryškėjimas romane, bet ir svarstoma, ar atsiveria naujų romano vertinimo perspektyvų. Kaip antraeile metodologine atrama straipsnyje naudojamasi ir kito imagologo Joepho Leersseno akcentuojama centro bei periferijos skirtimi, ryškiai atsiskleidžiančia „Viliuje Karaliuje“. Kadangi I. Simonaitytės tekste vaizduojamas lietuvininko susidūrimas su vokiškąja kultūra, daugiausia dėmesio straipsnyje skiriama veikėjų tarpusavio įtampoms.

The article examines the consequences of the colllision of two different cultures and eras. It draws on the history of Tilsit as described by the German journalist and historian Ulla Lachauer in her narrative “The Bridge of Tilsit” (“Die Brücke von Tilsit”). Published in 1995, Lachauer’s work offers historical facts and personal impressions of a journey to Sovetsk (1990) in search of the traces of the old Tilsit, which, unexpectedly, led to the author’s discovery of a city marked by an astonishing and, at times, frightening hybridity. The article analyses elements of “The Bridge of Tilsit” that constitute a narrative about the intermingling of cultures and highlight the hybridity of a city previously situated in East Prussia and, today, in the Soviet enclave of Kaliningrad.

This article is the analysis of Jurgis Šaulys’s letters to Morta Zauniūtė which are held in the Vilnius University library. These letters represent a lot of new details on all of their lives, personalities and creations. This article discusses the impact J. Šaulys had on all of their lives by analysing their correspondence. This article shows initial stages of J. Šaulys life as a cultural figure who will eventually be viewed as one of the most influential organisators of the literary life of the beginning of the 20th century.

On the ground of conceptual metaphor conception, metaphor is discussed as thinking strategy, which is implemented in language by metaphorical expressions. Metaphorical expressions for which target domain is criminal and crime were gathered from texts which were published in two Lithuanian news portals in the years 2001–2015. It is important to reconstruct the conceptual metaphors not only because they reflect viewpoint of society regarding certain phenomenon, but also because implemented in the texts of media influence on the public opinion, inasmuch as the metaphor is not only some linguistic form and conceptual structure, but also manifestation of communicational function.

The article analyse Vydūnas reception in Lihuanian cultural memory, its features and problems of a topic after restoration of independence in Lithuania. Investigation reveals ambivalentic tendency of Vydūnas reception, which in caused by cultural “distance” of Vydūnas – his reflective and creative work relations with Indian and German cultures. Vydūnas in his creative work links Indian east with mythological identity of Lithuanian culture and religion, so that in reception this eastern cultural component in transformed as one’s own. German – protestantic part of Vydūnas identity, which is marked only as separate element or historical episode, come into public attention field very rarely. Article talks about couses, reasons and meaning under such circumstances and analyse its meaning for Lithuanian cultural memory formation.

The article is concerned with semantic functions of the postverb up – the second component of English verbs of the type move up, fix up, round up (Vup-s) from the point of view of changing the lexical meaning of the verb and its aspectual characteristics in terms of terminativeness / durativeness, and modes of action. Analysis and classification of Vup-s according to their lexical meaning and modes of action reveal the systemic character of the language. Vup-s are viewed as derivational units – analytic words – in the plane of word formation theory.

The article examines the stereotypes of the Ukrainian, Russian and Lithuanian linguo-cultures of cooperative communicative behaviour in the context of cognitive and communicative categories of cooperativity. The process and mechanisms of stereotyping the national communicative behaviour have been characterized, the individual and collective stereotypical impressions about the concept of “cooperativity”, as well as the cooperative linguistic individual in Ukrainian, Russian and Lithuanian communicative cultures have been identified on the results of empirical research (due to the socio- and psycholinguistic experiments). The universal and national specific parameters of auto- and hetero-stereotypes of Ukrainian, Russians and Lithuanians on their level of cooperativity in communication have been established.

The paper analyses Latvian and German somatic idioms in the dictionaries by K. Ulmann and K. Ulmann / G. Braže. Up to now the researchers of Latvian phraseology have not focused to analyse these theme – especially in diachronic aspect. The paper presents the most fixed somatic idioms in the Latvian and German and their equivalence types. The author compares with the meanings of idioms from the first dictionary (1638) to modern electronic dictionary “Modern Latvian dictionary”.

The article notifies the significance of the cultural dialogue which has the history of four centuries, the dialogue between Prussian Lithuania and Lithuania Proper. Taken into account are the peculiarities of ethnic formation of both areas, as well as different strategies of assimilation policy used by Prussia and Russia. Consequently, these different strategies were accepted differently and yielded different effect. The activity of two cultural societies, that of Litauische literarische Gesellschaft, and that of Birutė is taken for comparison in the aspect of rising Lithuanian national self-consciousness, and the emphasis is laid upon sociopsichological aspects of the dialogue (which was not always direct) rather than upon historical or cultural parallels. To refresh run-of-the-mill academic attitude and discourse, unconventional literary means of the detective genre are put to use as a compositional and stylistic instrument.