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Ethnic diversity in the construction of life stories in Latvia
2017
Ethnic diversity in the construction of life stories in Latvia Latvian society is ethnically diverse and has the largest proportion of ethnic minorities of the three Baltic States. The article draws upon life-story research with respondents from Russian and Romany communities in Latvia. These communities have different social, historical and cultural experiences, thereby allowing them to be contrasted and compared. Ethnic diversity can be considered one of the benefits of Latvia’s cultural identity because it provides the opportunity not only to become acquainted with the characteristics and uniqueness of each culture but also to establish which traits unite these cultures, thereby creating…
Slavic Loanwords in the Terms for Dumplings in Latvian
2016
Slavic Loanwords in the Terms for Dumplings in Latvian Food is an essential part of the material culture of every nation. It frequently preserves national traditions and old names longer than other spheres do, additionally, it lets observe the influence of other cultures. According to dictionary data, dumplings were known in Latvia already in the 18th century. Many names for them have been attested in regional subdialects of Latvian; borrowings usually cover wide areas. In this article, basing on ethnographic and linguistic material notations of different antiquity thus tracing the use of names for dumplings almost a century long and referring to dictionary data from 18th–19th century, the …
Atlas of the Baltic languages: from idea to pilot project
2015
Atl as of the B a ltic l a ngu a ge s : from idea to pilot project Dialectologists from Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia and the Department of Language History and Dialectology of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language, have developed a proposal for a joint project entitled, The Atlas of the Baltic Languages, which is intended to demonstrate the close kinship of these two Baltic languages. A pilot project, supported by a grant from the University of Latvia and Directorate for the Millenium of Lithuania has been carried out between 2006 and 2008 to determine what the form and eventual content of such an atlas might be. In 2009 a summary of work carried out on the pilo…
Atlas of the Baltic languages: plant names of Slavonic origin
2015
Atlas of the Baltic Languages: Plant Names of Slavonic Origin The article investigates Slavonic-derived plant names in dialects of the two surviving Baltic languages – Latvian and Lithuanian. Historically, these Slavonisms were originally adopted by small-scale regional dialects, which are now disappearing. In 2009, a pilot study for the Atlas of the Baltic Languages was published. It comprised 12 geo-linguistic maps with Latvian, Lithuanian and English commentaries. 2012 saw the publication, in CD format, of the Atlas ’s first volume: Lexis 1: Flora . The material analysed concerns names for: (1) wild plants, e.g., cornflower, nettle, waybread, milfoil, dandelion, plantain; (2) cultivated …
Joëlle Beaucamp - Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet - Christian Julien Robin (eds.): Juifs et chrétiens en Arabie au Ve et VIe siècles: regards croisés sur…
2014
Review Article
Czy polskość jest (słownikowo) definiowalna?
2017
Can Polishness be (Lexicographically) Defined?The author argues that the essence of Polishness (polskość) is found in the Polish language, that is, in the language system, as well as in texts written in Polish; hence, it should be possible to reproduce and define the very concept of Polishness. So far, it should be stressed, the definitions of the concept of Polishness found in dictionaries of the Polish language have not provided any information on components of the concept under scrutiny. In this paper, the author proposes, first, a number of methods that enable one to extract the components of Polishness from the whole variety of text types and genres, and, second, a framework designed t…
Audience involvement in creative media for development: Making sense of the semiotic interface
2017
This article explores the role that semiotic communication plays in the generation of narrative affect. It also draws on Suruchi Sood’s concept of audience involvement as being capable of increasing self-efficacy and collective-efficacy, both of which are crucial to behaviour change. It therefore, demonstrates how semiotic tropes are used in creative media narratives to elicit affect and in turn generate authentic audience involvement with the subjects of those narratives, a process which eventually has positive consequences for behaviour change communication. Hence, these narratives fueled by semiotics, become the threshing floor where potential audiences are drawn into pro-social discours…
The «tuera» as a bitter fruit of suffering love: between the Cancionero General (1511) and El rayo que no cesa by Miguel Hernández (1936)
2020
El Cancionero General de Hernando del Castillo (Valencia, 1511) presenta una canción de Pedro Fajardo, Adelantado de Murcia, con un encabezado que remite a unas «tueras» (una especie de pequeña calabaza silvestre), como invención o empresa. El sabor de la «tuera» es muy amargo y por ello, en las escasas ocasiones en que aparece el término en literatura, las «tueras» se asocian con la amargura del sufrimiento amoroso (y a veces tal vez con la gravedad y los pesares del embarazo y la crianza). Encontraremos una nueva utilización poética de la «tuera» solamente cuatro siglos después, en uno de los sonetos de Miguel Hernández, «Fuera menos penado», incluido en su libro El rayo que no cesa (1936…
El sitio de Max Aub en el campo literario: la ubicación de un clásico
2014
En el campo literario, la acción conjunta de determinadas instancias de mediación y de consagración puede favorecer la ocupación de un lugar privilegiado y, por consiguiente, posibilita que se logre una posición de relieve en el sistema de producción y circulación de bienes simbólicos, en virtud de la jerarquía que va del reconocimiento a la exclusión. Así, el legado de Max Aub, hoy considerado un clásico contemporáneo, se aborda aquí con el fin de explicar cómo una obra se sitúa en el canon más allá de la desaparición de su autor, qué puede condicionar su variabilidad y qué instancias la amparan, interaccionan a su favor y la legitiman en el campo literario.
Op art et roman virtuel : correspondances entre Escher et Perec
2012
Op art et roman virtuel : correspondances entre Escher et Perec Les structures mathématiques, la notion de réalité comme « humaine illusion », le défi à l’infini et la structure énigmatique qui donne aux œuvres eschériennes la même structure que celle d’un roman policier permettent d’établir des convergences significatives entre le graveur hollandais et Georges Perec. Dans certaines œuvres de Perec, en effet, il est possible de remarquer des références explicites au graveur bien qu’elles constituent la traduction visuelle de l’angoisse du « retour du semblable », du « retour involontaire au même point ». Mais Perec ne se limite pas seulement à citer Escher, puisque certaines de ses œuvres c…