15 articles in this issue
Vaida Kamuntaviciene
The language question in St Catherine’s Convent in Krakes 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. ... see more
Zofia Sawaniewska-Mochowa,Vilija Sakalauskiene
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... see more
Danguole Mikuleniene,Aušra Paceviciute
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 ... see more
Justyna B. Walkowiak,Jowita Niewulis-Grablunas
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 ... see more
Justyna B. Walkowiak
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 Punsk in 1997, in which a significant number of perso... see more
Marius Smetona,Irena Smetoniene
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 b... see more
Frederik H. Bissinger
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 th... see more
Ewa Dziegiel
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 Sam... see more
Helena Krasowska
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... see more
Sergiej Skorwid
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 dia... see more
“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 stud... see more
Elena Fell
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... see more
Krystyna Rutkowska
The latest research on language and identity of Lithuanian emigrantsReviewEmigrantai: kalba ir tapatybe (Emigrants: Language and identity), collective monograph, academic editor Meilute Ramoniene, Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2015.This review ... see more
Anna Zielinska
Review: Anastasija Kostiucenko, 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 st... see more
Miroslaw Jankowiak
Review: Iryda Grek-Pabisowa, Polskie wyspy gwarowe z przelomu XIX i XX wieku na Bialorusi. Gwary póznego osadnictwa na Polesiu, Witebszczyznie i Mohylewszczyznie. Z wykazem slownictwa przedstawionym leksykograficznie (Polish dialect islands in B... see more