18 articles in this issue
Rita Miliunaite
New Lexis in the Interaction of Languages and Cultures: The Case of Selfie in the Lithuanian LanguageThis article deals with the adaptation of the English neologism selfie in the Lithuanian language. It sheds light on how selfie first appeared in Australi... see more
Alma Ragauskaite
Language Contact Between Lithuanian and Polish in the Historical Anthroponymy of Kedainiai Town of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesThis article presents Lithuanian naming trends specific to residents of Kedainiai in the seventeenth and eighteenth ... see more
Ewa Dziegiel
Sierp (The Sickle), Mlot (The Hammer), Trybuna Radziecka (The Soviet Tribune): Titles of the Polish-Language Press Published in the Interwar USSRThis study is devoted to the titles of newspapers and magazines published in Polish in the USSR in 1918–1939. ... see more
Irena Prawdzic
Polish-German Bilingualism in the Pila, Czarnków-Trzcianka and Zlotów Districts: A Study of Language Management in Three Generations Based on Representative Language BiographiesAs part of the project entitled “Language across generations: Contact induced ... see more
Magdalena Steciag
Lingua receptiva: An Ecolinguistic Approach to Slavic Inter-Language Contacts in a Borderland Area (a Polish-Czech Case)Ecolinguistics has dealt with inter-language contacts ever since its beginnings as an independent linguistic discipline in the 1970s. H... see more
Bartosz Dondelewski
(Non)fuzziness of Identity in the Spanish-Portuguese Borderland: The Case of the Linguistic Community of A Fala de Xálima (Spain)This article analyses the social dynamics observable in a conversation with a minoritized language activist about the neighbou... see more
Krzysztof Stepnik
The Paradigm of Finnish Reviews of Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz: Observations on the Issue of Intercultural Communication and the Functioning of Common Motifs of European CultureThe translation of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s novel Without Dogma into Finni... see more
Malgorzata Kasner
The Intertext of Vilnius in the Works of Vaidotas DaunysThe aim of the present article is to analyse the intertext of Vilnius in the works of the Lithuanian poet, essayist and editor Vaidotas Daunys (1958–1995) by drawing on the categories of intertextual... see more
Michal Lyszczarz,Michal Moch
Religious Literature of Polish Tatars in the Post-War Period (1945–1989)The article opens with a general overview of the socio-political situation of the Tatars and the specificity of their religiosity in the People’s Republic of Poland (1945–1989), leadi... see more
Roman Roszko
On New Manually Aligned and Tagged Bilingual Parallel Corpora and Their ApplicationsThis article is devoted to the manually aligned and tagged bilingual parallel CLARIN-PL-BIZ corpora of the Baltic and Slavic languages which are currently being developed.... see more
Maksim Duszkin
Bilingual Syntactic Hybrids in Scientific TextsThis article is devoted to the phenomenon of such quotation of foreign language lexemes whereby their form depends on the syntactic requirements of the language in which the main text is written, e.g. “dojsc ... see more
Alla Krawczuk
The Magazine Gazeta Polska Bukowiny as a Source for the Study of Contemporary Written Polish in UkraineThis article presents the magazine Gazeta Polska Bukowiny [The Polish Gazette of Bukovina], which has been published in Ukraine since 2007, as a source ... see more
Ewa Golachowska
On the Polish Language and the Multilingualism of the Polish Community in LatgaleReview Kristine Kunicka, Polacy i jezyk polski w Latgalii / Poli un polu valoda Latgale [Poles and the Polish Language in Latgale], Daugavpils: Latgales Reklama, 2020, 263 pp... see more
Malgorzata Ostrówka
The Contemporary Situation in the Grodno Region in a Sociolinguistic PerspectiveReview Katarzyna Konczewska, Polacy i jezyk polski na Grodzienszczyznie [Poles and the Polish Language in the Grodno Region], Kraków: Instytut Jezyka Polskiego Polskiej Akadem... see more
Miroslaw Jankowiak
From the Research on Latvian Dialectal LexisReview Benita Laumane, Zvejasriku nosaukumi latvijas piekraste [Names of Fishing Gear on the Latvian Coast], Liepaja: Liepajas Universitate, Kurzemes Humanitarais instituts, 2019, 507 pp.This article is a review... see more
Malgorzata Ostrówka,Miroslaw Jankowiak
Professor Iryda Grek-Pabisowa (1932–2021)This article presents the profile of Iryda Grek-Pabisowa, a renowned linguist, associated with the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences for sixty years. She was a long-serving head of North Borde... see more
Julia Ostanina-Olszewska
Report from the 13th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor: Metaphorical Creativity in a Multilingual World (Hamar, Norway, 18–21 June 2020)The RaAM 2020 conference on metaphor research was held online on 18–21 June 2020, hosted by... see more
Ludmyla Pidkujmucha
Minority LanguagesReview Helena Krasowska, Jezyki mniejszosci: Status, prestiz, dwujezycznosc, wielojezycznosc [Minority Languages: Status, Prestige, Bilingualism, Mutilingualism], Warszawa: Studium Europy Wschodniej, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2020, 226 pp.... see more