Journal:Res Humanitariae
Volume 17, Issue 1 (2015): 1, pp. 187–220
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to determine the typological characteristics of decoration of the delmonas of Lithuania Minor and of the national costume pockets of neighbouring nations. This article discusses Klaipėda region delmonas, the pockets of Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian costume, and the attachable pockets of noble class’s attire of various nations preserved in museums. The decorations of the pockets were studied to support or refute the influence of the fashion of nobility and of international relations on folk costume decor formation and change. The research allowed to identify the decorating techniques, pattern variation and matching features of the pockets.
The article presents Lithuanian culture concept priešas and the concept of Russian culture враг comparative analysis, based on 100 samples of mass-media’s discourse (in Lithuanian language and Russian language corpus). Comparison was performed via tertium comparationis: what is known as an enemy, what signs of the enemy are essential, what does enemy do, etc. Analysis showed that in Lithuanian vision the same entity can be both friend and enemy; Russian examples of similar meaning have not been found. The examples of an enemy in Russian discourse may be Great Britain, Germany, German, in Lithuanian discourse – Polish attacking groups, bolshevik. Lithuanian mass-media’s discourse 56 times more often uses word enemy than the Russian mass-media’s discourse.
The article is a study of the ways the mythical concepts of the English mythological conceptual world-view are reflected in the Old English lexis. To explain this, we combine all the concepts under analysis into conceptual segments according to their dominant conceptual features. In the article, we specifically dwell on the conceptual segment of the RELIGIOUS SPHERE, which integrates three sub-segments, GOD (god), DEVIL (deofol), and RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL NOTIONS.
Journal:Res Humanitariae
Volume 17, Issue 1 (2015): 1, pp. 172–186
Abstract
The present article presents analysis of the dances Heiduka and Szala rutele of the inhabitants of the Lithuania Minor described by Matas Pretorijus in the 17th century. The article discusses the parallels between the dances hereinabove with the later variants of these dances described in the territory of the Lithuania Minor – in Klaipėda region and a certain part of Königsberg area (current Kaliningrad Oblast) – and in Samogitia in the 17–20th centuries. The interrelationship and change of the purpose, forms and figures of dances are analyzed.
This article is aimed to describe linguistic metaphors and to reconstruct the conceptual metaphors which determine the origin of these linguistic metaphors in Tony Blair’s political discourse. Political discourse is an object of discourse analysis, which studies political language with special consideration of its contextual factors. Research into political discourse is an accelerating trend of modern linguistics that includes the findings of different branches of the humanities such as logic, philosophy, political psychology, sociology, etc.This study presents and examines conceptual metaphors and the identification of metaphorical expressions in Blair’s political texts. The majority of metaphorical expressions forms a particular system, which can be explained through their relations to conceptual metaphors – cognitive structures, existing in the sub-conscious, that determine the interpretation of the world and unfold through linguistic metaphorics.
Teritorija, iš kurios rinkti žodžiai, yra šiaurės rytiniame Klaipėdos krašto pakraštyje ir priklauso Klaipėdos rajonui. Žodžiai buvo renkami kelis dešimtmečius – iš pradžių įsidedami į galvą, o paskui surašyti popieriuje. Rašymas vyksta ir toliau, nes atmintis retkarčiais ką nors sugrąžina. Juk ir patys lietuvininkai, apsupti iš kitur atvykusių žmonių, daugelio savų žodžių jau nebevartoja ir net nebeprisimena. O ir mokančiųjų vakarų žemaičių tarmę Klaipėdos krašte liko tik apie 100. Gal kiek daugiau jų dar yra užsienyje. Bet daugelio jų amžius jau per 70 metų. Tad šis darbelis bent dalį senųjų klaipėdiškių žodžių išgelbės nuo užmaršties.
The folk song culture of southern Ukraine has only fragmentarily been studied. One of the most annoying blank spots is the traditions in areas where Ukrainian Cossack culture formed, the area of the Dnieper rapids and the adjacent territories (the lands of the modern Dnipropetrovsk region). Several expeditions were conducted there by ethnomusicologists from the 1990s to the 2020s. The article provides an overview of the main song genres obtained during these expeditions, and a general look at local song styles at the beginning of the 21st century.
This article examines a specific kind of sacrifice to the pagan Lithuanian and Prussian gods recorded in the written sources of the 16th and 17th centuries, sacrifices made in and by water. There is a total of just ten such records known. Both Lithuanian and Prussian tribes practiced this kind of sacrifice. It is noteworthy that sacrifices involving water were not made to a single deity, but rather to several different gods; that the kind of sacrifice varied and that the most diverse sorts of intentions were pursued in making the sacrifice.
This article addresses universal laws of the functioning of open systems involved in myth-oriented semiosis, categorisation and world-modelling. The paper focuses on isomorphic regularities occurring in irrational rationalisation and respective verbal phenomena. The outlined systemic and inter-systemic interactions are interpreted from the standpoint of M-logic methodology, semiotics, cognitive linguistics and cultural studies. The paper suggests formalised notations for logical construals, and demonstrates the cognitive premises of myth-oriented designations and the etymological reconstruction of a basic operator’s content.
The article analyzes the usage of epighaph fonts in old cemetries of Klaipėda region. The attention is mainly focused on gothic style type Fraktur. This German type was a basic script in German territories since Middle Ages until World War II. The German type is an inherent part of culture in Minor Lithuania. 1st part of the analyses deals with historical dissemination of printing Fraktur in German-speaking countries, with the purpose to illustrate the significance of this gothic style type in the society. The main target of the research is to explicate the relationship between different script types and languages, and to assess specifics of usage of the Fraktur regarding on period, ethnic and social aspects, material and technical features.