https://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/gateway/plugin/WebFeedGatewayPlugin/atomRespectus Philologicus2023-10-12T05:14:28+00:00Gabija Bankauskaitėgabija.bankauskaite@knf.vu.ltOpen Journal Systems<p>Founded in 1999 and dedicated to linguistic research, issues of literary narratives and contexts, influence of the advertising discourse, theory and practice of translation, and audiovisual research. Indexed in the <em>Scopus</em> (Q1) database since 2019.</p>https://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/33350Author guidelines2023-10-12T05:15:02+00:00Gabija Bankauskaitė
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2023-10-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Authorshttps://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/33349Editorial Board and Table of Contents2023-10-12T05:15:02+00:00Gabija Bankauskaitė
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2023-10-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Authorshttps://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/31725Optimistic Christian Verticals and Destructive Secular Horizontals in Joachim Ringelnatz’s and Ödön von Horváth’s Experimental Fairy Tales2023-10-12T11:35:06+00:00Maxim Duleba
<p>This article contributes to the discourse on experimental interwar fairy tales as a subgenre that undermines the anachronistic fairy-tale conventions to a selective negation or recontextualization in accordance with a contemporaneous cultural crisis. The contribution consists of demonstrating how fairy tales provide popular interwar religious authors with a platform to parallel the critical mirroring of their secular contemporaneous society with an articulation of a Christian, humanist optimism. A spatially focused comparison of Ödön von Horváth’s cycle of fairy tales Sportmärchen (1924–1926, published posthumously in 1972), and Joachim Ringelnatz’s Nervosipopel: Elf Angelegenheiten (1924) distinguishes the vertical and horizontal textual spaces to demonstrate that both authors reflect their metaphysically uprooted society through a negation of the genre's characteristic orientation toward harmonic equilibriums on a horizontal spatial axis. However, by overlaying destructive horizontals with antinomic, transcendence-signifying Christian verticals, the tales also articulate a modality of nearness to God, even in the secular world. This symbolic and positive vertical motion correlates with preserving the genre's characteristic idealization of a child.</p>
2023-10-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Maxim Dulebahttps://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/31943The Influence of the English Language on the Polish Youth Speak2023-10-12T05:15:02+00:00Anita Jagun
<p>The aim of the following article is to discuss the impact of the English language on Polish youth speak. First, the paper demonstrates databases that can be useful while analyzing the language of contemporary Polish teenagers. Next, it presents the English-origin lexical units that were classified to the final stage of the Polish Youth Word of the Year 2022 plebiscite. Finally, it highlights the similarities and differences between the use of a specific term in Polish and English. The results of the study show that the English-speaking culture has an enormous impact on how Polish teenagers communicate and perceive reality. Twelve of twenty lexical units selected in the plebiscite can be linked to the English language. Some of them loosely refer to English expressions or sounds. Many words are directly transferred from slang. They often originate from the world of computer games or social media. In today’s day and age, common access to the Internet makes them well-known in various parts of the world.</p>
2023-10-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Anita Jagunhttps://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/32205Tenth Anniversary of the Audiovisual Translation Study Programme: The Commemoration of a Decade of Work2023-10-12T12:03:27+00:00Indrė BagdžiūtėGabrielė JakaitytėViktorija Šedvydytė
<p>This review focuses on the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the <em>Audiovisual Translation</em> study programme that took place at Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty. <em>TELL ME MORE</em>: Translation Conference for Students and Early Career Researchers took place on April 25, 2023, and on the following day, April 26, 2023, the tenth anniversary of the <em>Audiovisual Translation</em> study programme was commemorated. In the article, the work carried out over the decade, the scientific publications and conferences organised, the changes in the study programme, the dynamics of the graduates, and the contribution of the social partners to the development and improvement of the <em>Audiovisual Translation</em> study programme were presented.</p>
2023-10-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Indrė Bagdžiūtė | Gabrielė Jakaitytė | Viktorija Šedvydytėhttps://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/31537Jewels and Clothing in the Light of Women's Wills of the Nobility from Greater Poland (17th Century)2023-10-12T12:01:35+00:00Klaudia Strojwąs
<p>During the Old Polish period, wills of the nobility were made to transfer property to the beneficiary heirs, revealing evident family relationships. The testators frequently included the record regarding movable possessions, e. g., such as jewels and clothing. The wills of noblewomen show that women had movable assets intended for children, grandchildren, husbands, or siblings. The jewels and clothing mentioned in the records to testified their financial standing. Among the most commonly traded precious items are gold and silver, including chains, pearls, rings, bracelets, and earrings. The wills included various types of outerwear such as coats, cloaks, yupkas, and undergarments such as dresses, skirts and alamodes. Headgear, including caps, hems, and clasps, were also often mentioned in testaments. The testators also had clothing accessories, such as belts, dress sleeves, aprons, cottons, and silver or gilded buttons.</p>
2023-10-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Klaudia Strojwąshttps://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/30222The Pragmatics of Paratextual Apparatus of Contemporary Latvian and American Travelogues2023-10-12T05:15:03+00:00Diāna Ozola
<p>The present research aims at investigating the pragmatic features of paratext and their functions in contemporary American and Latvian travelogues. The presence of numerous paratextual elements in travel writing often helps to differentiate the genre among other literary genres. This, together with the fact that Latvian travelogues are not frequently studied, adds novelty to the present research. In addition, paratextual apparatus plays an essential role in constructing the modality of a travel narrative; moreover, certain paratextual elements (photographs, illustrations, archival documents, etc.) serve as a witness for the veracity and authenticity of narration as well as create a communicative bond with a potential reader. Paratextual apparatus can be viewed from various perspectives due to the fact that its elements bear various functions from informative (preface, postscript, genre specification, etc.) to performative (dedication, epigraph, etc.). The research focuses on such paratextual elements as extended titles, genre specification, dedications, epigraphs, illustrative and archival materials used in several Latvian and American travelogues of 1962–2015. The research methodology was based on the analytical and cultural historical methods, which contributed to the deeper insight into the concept of paratextuality. The pragmatics of paratext in travel writing was investigated by means of synthesising the structural-semiotic method and the method of comparative analysis in the critical perception of travelogues under consideration.</p>
2023-10-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Diāna Ozolahttps://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/30926Emancipation of the National Identity in Augusts Deglavs’ Novel “Riga”2023-10-12T11:55:39+00:00Inta Genese-Plaude
<p>The article studies the formation of the Latvian national identity as depicted in the cultural and historical novel <em>Riga</em> by the writer Augusts Deglavs. The plot is set in the second half of the 19th century when more and more Latvians from the country started to move to Riga. By applying the context-oriented approach and practices of cultural studies, the New historicism, post-colonialism, separate aspects of the dynamics and context of the relationship between Latvians and Baltic Germans in multicultural Riga have been analysed. In addition, the points where social and national identities contact and cross under the conditions of hermetic and hegemonic German culture, like relations with the German language, acquisition of social practices, emergence of the sense of Latvianness, have also been examined. The article also performs a concise evaluation of the historical importance of the Young Latvians’ movement depicted in the novel as the awakener of the national identity. Based on John Austin’s concept of performative language, in studying the emancipation of national identity, attention was paid to the ability of language “to do things”, which proves that words expressed in certain situations can possibly affect and change the run of historical processes.</p>
2023-10-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Inta Genese-Plaudehttps://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/31894Environmental Threats in American and Macedonian Dystopian Fiction2023-10-12T11:56:57+00:00Kalina Maleska
<p>Various environmental changes threaten local environments and the world at large. Some of these changes have visible immediate effects on people’s lives, as exemplified by the pollution in the Macedonian capital of Skopje, which for several years has ranked among the world’s most polluted cities. Additionally, global warming is estimated to have devastating consequences for all life on Earth. While American writers have increasingly incorporated discussion of climate change into their fiction, Macedonian literature has rarely delved into environmental issues. Therefore, this article aims to contribute by exploring specific environmental aspects in several previously unexplored Macedonian dystopian works by Branko Prlja, Ivan Šopov and Biljana Crvenkovska. These works are compared to the novel <em>Forty Signs of Rain </em>by the American writer Kim Stanly Robinson, analysing the approaches employed in addressing environmental threats. The comparative view, as well as placing all of these works in the context of existing factual information about climate change and pollution, indicates the cultural differences between the narratives, but also the common ground they share about possible responses that may be undertaken to tackle environmental problems.</p>
2023-10-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Kalina Maleskahttps://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/29714“An Artist With Trauma” in Search of Identity: The Postmodernist Options in Ukrainian and Turkish Literatures2023-10-12T11:59:37+00:00Oksana Halchuk
<p>The article examines the typological features of the image of <em>an artist</em> <em>with trauma</em> and its correlation with the issue of identity. The subjet matter for the analysis are the novels <em>My Name is Red</em> by O. Pamuk and <em>The City with Chimeras</em> by O. Ilchenko. The article utilises historical-literary, comparative, and mythopoetic research methods and studies of traumatic writing and identity problems. The article defines the characteristic features of the image of a <em>traumatised artist</em>, such as the artist's stay in a traumatic situation of creative and personal crisis, fanatical worship of the idea of serving Beauty with a dominance of the aesthetic over the moral, willingness to justify death as a form of <em>convincing</em> opponents; the presence of a physical injury. The article also substantiates the expediency of Medusa Gorgona’s image as a mythos-archetypal counterpart of this image. The results of the comparative analysis prove that <em>an artist with trauma</em> is relevant primarily for the artistic understanding of the post-colonial experience as a type of <em>trauma</em>. Their heroes are in search of identity. It becomes their successful or unsuccessful attempt to overcome the trauma through creativity.</p>
2023-10-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Oksana Halchuk