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The language question in St Catherine’s Convent in Krakės in the first half of the twentieth centuryAfter 1918, the two Catholic convents on the territory of the Republic of Lithuania faced the issue of Lithuanisation, which was solved in different ways. The Benedictine Convent in Kaunas, the provisional capital of Lithuania, had been firmly Lithuanised by 1924. However, St Catherine’s Convent in...
On the Polish language and cultural heritage in the village of Belostok in SiberiaThe village of Belostok is known as one of originally Polish villages in Siberia. As it is today, only one woman in the village (from the oldest generation) still speaks dialectal Polish, and another one remembers Polish prayers. This article attempts to reconstruct the original sociolinguistic situation in the village,...
Review: Iryda Grek-Pabisowa, Polskie wyspy gwarowe z przełomu XIX i XX wieku na Białorusi. Gwary późnego osadnictwa na Polesiu, Witebszczyźnie i Mohylewszczyźnie. Z wykazem słownictwa przedstawionym leksykograficznie (Polish dialect islands in Belarus at the turn of the 20th century: Dialects of late settlement in Polesie, and the Vitebsk and Mogilev regions. With a lexicographic listing of vocabulary),...
The latest research on language and identity of Lithuanian emigrantsReviewEmigrantai: kalba ir tapatybė (Emigrants: Language and identity), collective monograph, academic editor Meilutė Ramonienė, Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2015.This review discusses the collective monograph Emigrantai: kalba ir tapatybė (Emigrants: Language and identity), authored by a team of Lithuanian Studies scholars...
The Polish language in intergenerational transmission in homogeneous and mixed families in the Lviv regionThe aim of this article is to analyse the conditions of intergenerational transmission of the Polish language in homogenous and mixed families in Sambir and Dobromyl in Ukraine. 21 families took part in the survey: 13 Polish couples, 6 Polish-Ukrainian and 2 Ukrainian of Ukrainian-Polish origin...
The current situation of the Polish language in Carpathian BukovinaThe use and the state of preservation of the Polish language in Carpathian Bukovina is very diverse for a number of reasons. There are villages in which it is not only spoken in the family domain by people invited to take part in this study, but also serves as the basic code of communication in public space: all local residents, including...
The Lithuanian and Polish linguistic legacy of Antanas Juška from a twenty-first-century perspectiveThis article presents the assumptions of new research on the legacy of Antanas Juška, recorded in Lithuanian and Polish. We assume that the forgotten works of this bilingual author from Lithuania, mainly translation dictionaries, are an underestimated study material for interdisciplinary research. They...
“It was hard for me to speak Russian”: Interviews with a resident of the village of Belostok in SiberiaThe fieldwork in the formerly Polish village of Belostok in the Tomsk Region (Western Siberia) undertaken in 2017 is a continuation of the previous study of the idiolect of its sole Polish-speaking resident initiated by Natal’ia Anan’eva fourteen years ago. This article presents a record and commentary...
Unofficial surnames used by the Lithuanian minority in Poland: The linguistic and cultural heritage of the Polish-Lithuanian borderlandUnofficial surnames are rare because surnames today are generally official in character. However, in the case of Polish citizens who are Lithuanians, they are a phenomenon that has long been present, although visible mostly – and until the entry into force of the Act...
The understanding of the concept LANGUAGE among young people in Lithuania and Lithuanians living abroadThis article applies the methodology developed by the Ethnolinguistic School of Lublin to analyse how the concept LANGUAGE (Lith. KALBA) is understood by young people in Lithuania and how its understanding changes when a person lives far away from their homeland. A comparison of replies from the...
The given names used by the Lithuanian minority in PolandThis article analyses the given names of members of the Lithuanian minority in Poland. It is based on a Lithuanian telephone directory issued in Puńsk in 1997, in which a significant number of personal names are recorded in the Lithuanian form. Their comparison with the corresponding data in two Polish telephone directories from a similar period...
Lithuanian language discourses and family language policies of Lithuanian families in Sweden: A case studyThis case study shares first insights of the family language policy of a Lithuanian family in Sweden. It identifies Lithuanian language discourses that might affect this policy and analyses discourse strategies applied by the family members. The aim is to shed some new light on the negotiation...
Language shift: The case of the Žeimiai area in the Kaunas-Jonava regionAs a result of application of the principles of multidimensional dialectology in Lithuania in the early twenty-first century, the research discourse of Lithuanian dialectologists now covers not only the traditional dialects, but also several local language variations that continuously interact and compete with one another in the...
Review: Anastasija Kostiučenko, Sprachen und ihre Sprecher in Litauen. Eine soziolinguistische Untersuchung zum sozialen Status des Litauischen, Polnischen und Russischen (Languages and their speakers in Lithuania: A sociolinguistic study on the social status of Lithuanian, Polish and Russian), Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2016.This article offers a review of the monograph Sprachen und ihre Sprecher in Litauen...
Izhorians: A disappearing ethnic group indigenous to the Leningrad regionThere is no body of research focusing specifically on Izhorians, a Finno-Ugrian minority group indigenous to the Leningrad region. Information about them is usually embedded in wider studies investigating Finnic minorities living at the intersection of Russia, Estonia and Finland. Consequently, it is fragmented, disjointed and...
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