Adeptus  

Maciej Metrak

Minority Identities: Maintenance, Transmission and RevitalizationIntroduction to the vol. 19th of Adeptus Mniejszosciowe tozsamosci: przekaz, podtrzymywanie i rewitalizacjaWstep do numeru 19 „Adeptusa” 

Michael Hornsby

‘Authentic’ Language as a Contested Concept in BrittanyThe question of authenticity in language has been approached from a number of theoretical standpoints. A significant type of feature which may bestow authenticity and legitimacy is the linguistic. Lin... see more

Karolina Rosiak

Migration, Demography, and Minority Language Learning: A Case of WalesThe present article discusses the role of adult migrants to Wales in the country’s demographics and maintenance and promotion of the Welsh language. The Welsh society is an ageing socie... see more

Antony Hoyte-West

Spanish and Creole: Exploring Aspects of Minority and Minoritised Languages in Jamaica and Trinidad & TobagoAs the two largest countries in the Anglophone Caribbean, the sole official language of both Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago is English. This... see more

Fabio Scetti,Federica Salamino

Project VVV and the Issue of Revitalising Valoc’This article provides an insight into the complex issue of producing the first edition of the dictionary of Valoc’ – a variety of Lombard spoken in Val Masino, lower Valtellina (northern Italy). This new lex... see more

Tymoteusz Król

“But this doesn’t look Vilamovian”: Lesser-Known Determinants of the Cultural Distinctiveness of VilamoviansResearchers who study Wilamowice regard the costume and language as the main determinants of the cultural distinctiveness of the Vilamovians. The r... see more

Justyna Majerska-Sznajder

The Covid-19 Pandemic and Contemporary Identity Attitudes of Young VilamoviansVilamovians, who are descendants of thirteenth-century Germanic settlers, have retained a strong sense of their own identity for centuries. This identity developed gradually und... see more

Tymoteusz Król,Maciej Metrak,Andrzej Zak

An Annotated Bibliography of Published Works Concerning the Culture of Wilamowice and the Wymysorys Language, 1945–2000 and 2020–2022This paper, the second part of a comprehensive Vilamovian bibliography, contains a list of 89 publications (1945–2000 and ... see more

Maciej Bandur

The Origins of Pomerania’s Choronyms in the Light of Linguistic MaterialThis article presents an analysis of linguistic data concerning the origins of Pomerania’s choronyms and revisits two conflicting hypotheses. One of them assumes endonymy, the other a... see more

Zoltán Németh

Between Pluricentrism and Transculturalism: Issues of the Language of Hungarian Literature in SlovakiaThis study examines a specific type of language use in contemporary Hungarian literature in Slovakia. The literary works of several Hungarian authors in ... see more

Magdalena Krzyzanowska

Silesia – Silentium: Silesian Women in Anna Dziewit-Meller’s ProseThis article aims to present the image of the Silesian women emerging from the novels by Anna Dziewit-Meller (Góra Tajget [Mount Taygetus], Od jednego Lucypera [All Because of One Lucifer])... see more

Agnieszka Lenart

On the (Re)construction of Identity in the Conditions of Russian-Jewish Borderland (Based on the Story “Apples from Shlitzbutter’s Garden” by Dina Rubina)This article is devoted to the issues of identity formed in the Russian-Jewish borderland. The study ... see more

Marta Cmiel-Bazant

An Autobiographical Reading of Drago Jancar’s Novel Mocking DesireThe novel Mocking Desire was published in 1993, when Drago Jancar was already a wellknown author, who had received some important literary awards. This hybrid and multifaceted literary work... see more