Faculty of Philology

Sukurta: 06 July 2018

flf 5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius

Tel.: 268 7205, 268 7206; fax 268 7208,

E-mail:

Dean – Prof. Dr. Meilutė Ramonienė (since April)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Antanas Smetona (up to April)

STAFF

291 teachers (incl. 146 holding research degree), 24 research fellows (incl. 14 holding research degree), 42 doctoral students.

DEPARTMENTS OF THE FACULTY

Institute of English, Romance and Classical Studies
Department of English Philology
Department of Classical Philology
Department of Romance Philology

Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Baltic
Department of Baltic Linguistics
Department of German Philology
Department of Russian Philology
Centre of Scandinavian Studies
Polish Studies Centre

Institute for Literary and Cultural Research
Department of Lithuanian Literature
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies
A. J. Greimas Centre for Semiotics and Literary Theory

Institute of Applied Linguistics
Department of Lithuanian Language
Department of Lithuanian Studies

Digital Philology Centre (till September 2017)

Institute of Foreign Languages
Department of Romance Languages
Department of German Language
Department of English for Social Sciences and Humanities
Department of English for Physical and Biomedical Sciences

RESEARCH AREAS

Lithuanian Studies: Philological, Cultural and Interdisciplinary Aspects. Research and Development

Multilingual Discourses: Linguistics, Literature, Culture

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED IN 2017

L. Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė. The morphemic structure and formation of nouns and adjectives with

(neo)classical elements in modern Lithuanian.

J. Urbonaitė. Metaphor in written academic legal discourse: a cross-linguistic study.

V. Cibarauskė. Literary biography as a structure of cultural memory: cases of N. Miliauskaite and S. Parulskis.

P. Jevsejevas. The poetic idiolect of Sigitas Geda.

MAIN CONFERENCES ORGANIZED IN 2017

International conference Translation: Sameness, Likeness and Match

International conference Les Nouveaux Défis pour le FLE à l'Université

International conference Czesław Jankowski (1857–1929) – between „hereness” and Europeaness

International symposium 25 years of Scandinavian Studies at Vilnius University

INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH, ROMANCE AND CLASSICAL STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius

Tel. / fax 268 7228

E-mail:

Head – Prof. Dr. Habil. Aurelija Usonienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr. R. Rudaitytė, Habil. Dr. A. Usonienė, Dr. A. Samalavičius.
Associate professors: Dr. L. Bartkuvienė, Dr. R. Juknevičienė, Dr. G. Kurtinienė, Dr. B. Ryvitytė, Dr. J. Šinkūnienė.
Assistants: Dr. Davide Castiglione, Dr. A. Ruskan, Dr. R. Šlapkauskaitė, Dr. A. Šolienė, Dr. J. Urbonaitė, Dr. D. Valančiūnas.
Lecturers: J. Kasteckienė, J. Liauksminienė, I. Vyšniauskienė, E. Liubertaitė, R. Zukienė.
Doctoral students: E. Liubertaitė, J. Liauksminienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cross-linguistic studies of English and Lithuanian
Corpus linguistics
Contrastive syntax and semantics (verb complementation, perception verbs, epistemic modality, semantics of locatives)
Text and discourse analysis, academic discourse
Cognitive linguistics
Contrastive rhetoric: genre analysis
Phonetic and phonological aspects of English and Lithuanian
Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP): academic English, English for professional purposes
Second language acquisition: learner language
Language testing
Corpus-based and corpus-driven phraseology
Translation of professional texts
Literary translation
Language and literature: British, Irish, American, Canadian literature, stylistic analysis of literary texts
Literary traditions, their development and transformation in West European and American literatures
Investigation of literary trends, genres, thematic and problematic issues in West European and American literatures
Textual poetics and its relations to philosophical, aesthetical, sociological systems
Intertextuality
Culture studies: American civilisation, British history and society, Canadian culture, Irish identity

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Germanic and Romance Literary and Cultural Texts. Prof. Dr. R. Rudaitytė. 2010–2020.

The department (in cooperation with the departments of French and German Philology as well as the Centre of Scandinavian Studies) has been carrying out investigation of literary trends, genres and problems of poetics, the development of literary traditions, the relationship of literary texts with Philosophy, Aesthetics, Psychology, Sociology and other theoretical systems. Some of the academic staff has been continually doing research in the field of the history of Germanic literatures and literatures in Romance languages and publishing articles on the related issues.

Main publications:

Bartkuvienė, L. 2017. (Ne)matomos esatys: epistemologinis Virginios Woolf kūrybos estetikos aspektas. [(In)visible Presences: The Epistemological Aspect of Virginia Woolf's Aesthetics.]. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. (Monograph)

Samalavičius, A. 2017. Memories of dependence: Lithuanian Case Revisited. Lituanus: the Lithuanian Quarterly, vol. 63:3, p. 49–68.

Germanic, Romance and Baltic Language Studies. Prof. Dr. Habil. A. Usonienė. 2010–2020.

The linguists of the department carry out this research in close collaboration with their colleagues based at the departments of German Philology, the Lithuanian language and the Centre of Scandinavian studies. The focus of the research is on the synchronic and diachronic analysis of language-specific features characteristic of the grammatical, lexical and semantic structure of the languages under study. The range of research methods used and theoretical approaches followed varies greatly: from purely descriptive to functional, from cognitive to socio-linguistic, from quantitative to qualitative analysis of authentic language data.

Main publications:

Usonienė, A., Šinkūnienė, J. 2017. Potential vs use: revisiting an evidential participial construction in Lithuanian. In Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Gerda Haβler & Marta Carretero (eds). Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive Grammar, Functional and Discourse-Pragmatic Perspectives, p. 297-340. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/pbns.271.08uso.

Ruskan, A. 2017. Markers of evidentiality in Lithuanian newspaper discourse: A corpus-based study. In Juana Isabel Marín Arrese, Gerda Haβler and Marta Carretero (eds.). Evidentiality Revisited. Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives, p. 271–295. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Usonienė, A., Šolienė. A. 2017. Reportive evidentials in English and Lithuanian: what kind of correspondence? In Thomas Egan & Hildegunn Dirdal (eds). Cross-linguistic correspondences: From lexis to genre, 177–197. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins; doi: 10.1075/slcs.191.07uso.

Projects and Programmes Supported by the Research Council of Lithuania

Research Council of Lithuania. Discourse Markers in Lithuanian: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study (P-MIP-17-308). Dr. J. Šinkūnienė, Dr. E. Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Dr. A. Ruskan, Dr. A. Šolienė.

Other Projects

EVIDISPRAG: Evidentiality: A Discourse-Pragmatic Study of English and Other European Languages. (FFI2015-65474P, MINECO/FEDER. Funding institutions: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and European Regional Development Fund). Habil. Dr. A. Usonienė, Dr. A. Ruskan, Dr. J. Šinkūniene, Dr. A. Šolienė.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Giessen University (Germany)
University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid University (Spain)
Mainz University (Germany)
University of Greifswald (Germany)
University of Versailles, Paris (France)
University of Barcelona (Spain)
University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr. L. Bartkuvienė –

member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
editorial board-member of the journal Journalism Research (Vilnius University, Faculty of Communication);
member of the Lithuanian Association of University Teachers of English;
member of the Lithuanian Oxford and Cambridge Society;
senior member of St. Hilda’s College (Oxford University).

Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Juknevičienė –

member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics; www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt;
member of Learner Corpus Association, http://www.learnercorpusassociation.org/;
member of SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea), http://www.societaslinguistica.eu;
member of FLaRN (Formulaic Language Research Network), http://flarn.org.uk/;
member of LAKMA (Lithuanian Association of EFL Teachers), http://www.lakmaonline.lt/.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. G. Kurtinienė –

member of LATEFL (Lithuanian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language);
member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics; www.litaka.lt;
member of IPA (International Phonetic Association).

Assoc. Prof. Dr. B. Ryvitytė –

member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association; www.litaka.lt;
member of the Lithuanian Association for Canadian Studies;
treasurer of the Lithuanian Association of University Teachers of English;
member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
member of SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea).

Prof. Dr. R. Rudaitytė –

editor-in-Chief of the research journal Literatūra(Literature);
board member and Lithuanian representative of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), http://www.essenglish.org;
President of LAUTE (Lithuanian Association of the University Teachers of English);
editorial board member of the Literature of Enlightenment Series;
editorial advisory board member of international research journal EJES (European Journal of English Studies), ISSN 1382-5577, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals;
member of the Lithuanian Literary Translators’ Association; http://www.llvs.lt;
international advisor with the Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research, University of Wolverhampton, UK;
member of the Peer Review College of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK;
member of the English Association since 2011, http://www.le.ac.uk/engassoc/fellows.html).

Dr. A. Ruskan –

member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
member of SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea).

Assoc. Prof. Dr. J. Šinkūnienė –

member of SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea);
member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association; www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt.

Dr. R. Šlapkauskaitė –

member of the Lithuanian Association for Canadian Studies;
member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
member of CACLALS (Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies).

Dr. A. Šolienė –

member of SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea).

Prof. Habil. Dr. A. Usonienė –

editor-in Chief of the journal Kalbotyra (Linguistics);
member of SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea);
member of the Philological Society (UK);
member of ESSE;
member of the Advisory Board of the journal Revista de Lengua para Fines Específicos (LFE) (ISSN: 1133-1127), http://www.webs.ulpgc.es/lfe/index.html;
member of the Scientific Committee of the fifth edition of the Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS 2018) conference series in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/uccts2018-committees.html.

Dr. D. Valančiūnas –

member of IGA (International Gothic Association);
member of Lithuanian Society for the Study of Religions;
member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
member of EASAS (European Association for South Asian Studies).

Prof. Dr. A. Samalavičius –

editor in chief of the Journal of Architecture and Urbanism (Routledge);
editor in chief of Lituanus: the Lithuanian Quarterly (Lituanus Foundation, Chicago);
member of editorial board of Journal of World Architecture (Australia) and Architecture Research (USA);
member of Architectural Humanities Research Association (UK);
member of Urban History Association (USA);
member of PEN International;
member of board of Lithuanian PEN center;
expert of Lithuanian Research Counsil;
member os scientific committtee of ISCADU (International Conference on Sustainability in Architecture and Design and Urbanism), Diponegoro University, Java, Indonesia, August 9–11, 2017;
charmain of Jury for the Contest of Monument to the 500 Anniversary of Reformation in Lithuania (Ministry of Culture and Lithuanian Association of Artists), 2017.

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius

Tel. 268 7220, 268 7221

E-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Audronė Kučinskienė

STAFF

Professors: Habil. Dr. E. Ulčinaitė (emeritus), Dr. F. Eloeva.
Associate professors: Dr. N. Juchnevičienė, Dr. A. Kairienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Ališauskas, Dr. M. Čiurinskas.
Assistants: Dr. T. Veteikis, Dr. M. Strockis, Dr. J. Dikmonienė, Dr. O. Daukšienė, Dr. D. Keršienė, P. Garbačiauskas, J. Baronienė, K. Svarevičiūtė.
Lecturers: I. Štikonaitė, D. Andziulytė, S. Paškonytė.
Doctoral students: N. Klingaitė-Dasevičienė, A. Jaskelevičius.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Classical antiquity and its tradition

Christian literature and its interrelation with classical tradition, 1^st-5^th centuries
Latin and Greek literature in Lithuania in the 16^th-18^thcenturies

RESEACH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Latin Literature in Lithuania and its Interrelation with Classical Tradition, Assoc. Prof. Dr. N. Juchnevičienė. 2015–2020.

The main activity of the year 2017 was the preparation and publication of several articles and studies. Attention has been paid to the interpretation of texts and to the poetics of the classical texts, situation of classical scholarship in Lithuania in Soviet times, Lituanization of Greek proper names in the ancient-literature textbooks of Soviet times in comparison with other Baltic contries, etc. A wide range of cultural problems of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and national aspects of Christian tradition and Neolatin texts was reflected and analysed in the edition by T. Veteikis and M. Čiurinskas, K. Svarevičiūtė. Some members of the Department delivered papers at linguistic conferences and linguistic seminars.

Main publications:

Juchnevičienė, N. 2017. Classical Scholarship in Lithuania at the Beginning of the Soviet Era: the struggle for survival, The Clasical Tradition in the Baltic Region. Perceptions and Adaptations of Greece and Rome, edited by Arne Jonsson and Gregor Vogt-Spira. - Series: Spudasmata. Bd 171. Hildesheim-Zurich-New York: Georg Olms Verlag, p. 545–561.

Veteikis, T. 2017. The Cato Graeco-Latinus by Johannes Mylius: a monument from the early stage of the humanist education in Lithuania, The Clasical Tradition in the Baltic Region. Perceptions and Adaptations of Greece and Rome, edited by Arne Jonsson and Gregor Vogt-Spira. - Series: Spudasmata. Bd 171. Hildesheim-Zurich-New York: Georg Olms Verlag, p. 391-405.

Kučinskienė, A. (with Līva Bodniece, Maria-Kristiina Lotman). 2017. Kreeka pärisnimed Esti, Läti ja Leedu õpikutes (Greek Proper Names in Ancient-Literature Textbooks on the Example of Baltic Countries), Keel ja Kirjandus, vol. 4, p. 291–304, http://kjk.eki.ee/ee/issues/2017/4/913.

International Scientific Programs and Projects

Colloquium Balticum – Research Network for the Study of Greek and Latin Antiquity and its Reception in the Baltic Region.

International project of the Euroclassica Europatria II.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Philipps University of Marburg (Germany)
University of Lund (Sweden)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Universily of Latvia (Latvia)
Université de Lyon (France)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. F. Eloeva –

editorial board member of the journal Yearbook for the Greek Studies, University of Minnesota, http://mgs.umn.edu/;
federal expert of the Modern Greek Studies of Russia;
member of the Scientific Councils for Phd and Habilitation theses of the Philological faculty of St. Petersburg University ( 212.232.23 – Theory of Language, 212.232.18 – Russian and Slavic Languages, Classical, Byzantine, Modern Greek Philosophy);
Honorary Doctor of the University of Thrace (Greece).

Prof. Habil. Dr. E. Ulčinaitė (emeritus) –

editorial board member of the journal Senoji Lietuvos literatūra;
editorial board member of the monograph Fontes historiae Universitatis Vilnensis;
member of the Lithuanian Association of Classicists, http://www.klasikai.lt/apie-mus/.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. N. Juchnevičienė –

deputy-editor-in-chief of the journal Literatūra and editor of Literatūra 3 (Studies of Ancient Culture and its Reception), http://www.leidykla.vu.lt/inetleid/literatura/htm;
expert of the Research Council of Lithuania;
president and the founder of the Lithuanian Association of Classicists (Societas Classica), http://www.klasikai.lt/apie-mus/valdyba/;
editorial board member of the journal Philologia classica: Studies in Classical Philology and History of Classical Scholarship (St. Petersburg State University), http://phil.spbu.ru/academic-activities/philologia-classica;
editorial board member of Spudasmata 171: The Classical Tradition in the Baltic Region. Perceptions and Adaptations of Greece and Rome (A. Jönsson and Gr. Vogt-Spira, eds.), Olmes-Weidemann, Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, 2017;
vice-president of Euroclassica (European Association of Teachers of Classical Languages and Culture), representative of Lithuania in the General Assembly, https://www.edugroup.at/praxis/portale/euroclassica/euroclassica/committee.html;
member of the Association Lituanistų sambūris.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Kučinskienė –

member of the executive committee of the Lithuanian Association of Classicists, http://www.klasikai.lt/apie-mus/valdyba/;
member of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR), http://ishr-web.org/aws/ISHR/pt/sp/home_page.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Ališauskas –

member of the executive committee of the Lithuanian Association of Classicists, http://www.klasikai.lt/apie-mus/valdyba/;
editorial board member of the editing and investigating sources of Christian mysticism Mystica Christiana, https://issuu.com/knygos.lt/docs/giesmiu_giesmes_homilijos_-_issuu;
editorial board member of the editing and investigating sources of Baltic culture Baltų kultūros simboliai;
editorial board member of the scientific periodical Bažnyčios istorijos studijos;
member of Commission Internationale d’Histoire et d’Etudes de Christianisme (CIHEC);
member of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Science.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Čiurinskas –

member of the Lithuanian Association of Classicists, http://www.klasikai.lt/apie-mus/;
member of the editorial board and editor of scientific periodical Senoji Lietuvos literatūra [Early Lithuanian Literature];
member of the Council of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore;
editorial board member of the scientific serial Historiae Lituaniae fontes minores (editing and investigating sources of Lihuanian history).

Dr. M. Strockis –

member of the State Commision of the Lithuanian Language, http://www.vlkk.lt/struktura-ir-kontaktai/komisija;
member of the Lithuanian Association of Classicists, http://www.klasikai.lt/apie-mus/;
member of the Research Council of the Institute for the Lithuanian Language, http://lki.lt/moksline-veikla/mokslo-tarybos-nariai/.

Dr. T. Veteikis Dr. J. Dikmonienė Dr. D. Keršienė K. Svarevičiūtė A. Jaskelevičius –

members of the Lithuanian Association of Classicists, http://www.klasikai.lt/apie-mus.

P. Garbačiauskas –

member of Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators, https://llvs.lt/narys/140;
member of the Lithuanian Association of Classicists, http://www.klasikai.lt/apie-mus/.

DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, LT-01122 Vilnius

Tel. 268 7232

E-mail:

Head – Prof. Dr.Vytautas Bikulčius

STAFF

Professors: Dr. V. Bikulčius, Dr. G. Dručkutė.
Associate professors: Dr. Diego Ardoino, Dr. D. Būrė, Dr. G. F. Juzala, Dr. N. Di Nunzio, Dr. M. Villanueva.
Assistants: Dr. A. Gataveckaitė, Dr. E. Kačkutė (Part-time), V. Kazlauskienė, Dr. A. Kučinskienė, Dr. M. Sebastia Saez, D. Kuzminskaitė, Dr. P. Pulgar Alves, Dr. J. T. Ramonaitė (part-time), Dr. M. Stasilo, Dr. L. Vilkaitė, Dr. V. Valiukienė.
Lecturers: A. Baudry (part-time), P. Birbilas (part-time), P. Fertoli, J. L. Fernandez Gallo, C. Garcia Fernandez, A.-S. Kersaho (part-time), I. Kirilauskaitė (part-time), Dr. J. Navakauskienė (part-time), L. Perkauskytė, D. Repeikaitė-Jarmalavičienė, D. Sroda, I. Šerniuvienė, E. Zingerytė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cross-linguistic studies of French and Lithuanian
Corpus linguistics
Contrastive syntax and semantics (verb complementation, perception verbs, epistemic modality, semantics of locatives)
Text and discourse analysis, academic discourse
Cognitive linguistics
Phonetic and phonological aspects of French and Lithuanian
Aspects of Francophonie
French language teaching
Teaching French for specific purposes (FSP): academic French, French for professional purposes
Second language acquisition: learner language
Language testing
French language teacher education
History of the French language
Lexicography (terminology, FSP dictionaries)
Translation of professional texts
Language and literature: Romance literatures, stylistic analysis of literary texts
Literary traditions, their development and transformation in French and Francophone literatures
Investigation of literary trends, genres, thematic and problematic issues in French and Francophone literatures
Textual poetics and its relations to philosophical, aesthetical, sociological systems
Terminology of literary criticism
Theory of the text
Intertextuality

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by University Budget

Germanic and Romance Literary and Cultural Texts. Prof. R. Rudaitytė. 2010–2017.

The Department has been carrying investigation of literary trends, genres and problems of poetics, the development of literary traditions, the relationship of literary texts with Philosophy, Aesthetics, Psychology, Sociology and other theoretical systems. The academic staff has been continually doing research in the field of the history of French and Francophone literatures and publishing articles on the related issues.

Main publications:

Bikulčius, V. 2017. Lietuvis Prancūzijoje: nuo egzotikos kultūros link. Historia universalis in Lithuania, Lietuvos edukologijos universitetas, t. 3, p. 159–169.

Di Nunzio, N. 2017. Verifica del canone. Il caso Landolfi nella narrativa breve del Modernismo italiano. Il racconto modernista in Italia. Teoria e Prassi, a cura di Mara Santi – Tiziano Toracca, biblioteca di «Sinestesie» 39, Avellino: Edizioni Sinestesie, p. 111–133.

Dručkutė, G. 2017. Vakarų kultūros įvaizdžių reikšmė Denis Diderot poemose Kelias iš Kionigsbergo į Mėmelį ir Kelionė apledėjusia Dauguva. Acta litteraria comparativa, Lietuvos edukologijos universitetas, 2016–2017, t. 8 (Kultūrų tiltai ir patiltės), p. 62–72.

Language Usage, Language Learning and Teaching. Prof. M. Ramonienė. 2006–2016.

The department participates in this project together with other departments of the Faculty of Philology.

Main publications:

Prancūzų K2 daiktavardinio junginio giminės gramatinės kategorijos kompetencija. Taikomoji kalbotyra. 9/2017, p. 149–175, www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt.

Vilkaitė, L. 2017. Incidental acquisition of collocations: Effects of adjacency and prior vocabulary knowledge. ITL – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 168(2), https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/itl.17005.vil/details.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Institute of the Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Lithuania)
Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association (Lithuania)
French Institute, Vilnius (Lithuania)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. V. Bikulčius –

member of the Lithuanian Literary Translators’ Association.

Prof. Dr. G. Dručkutė –

executive secretary of the journal Literatūra (Literature);
board member of the Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association;
editorial board member of the Medieval Literature and the Literature of Enlightenment Series;
member of the Lithuanian Literary Translators’ Association.

INSTITUTE FOR THE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF THE BALTIC

DEPARTMENT OF BALTIC LINGUISTICS

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius

Tel. 268 7211, fax 268 7210

E-mail:

Head – Prof. Dr. Daiva Sinkevičiūtė

STAFF

Professors: Habil. Dr. B. Stundžia, Dr. B. Jasiūnaitė, Dr. D. Sinkevičiūtė.
Associate professors: Dr. B. Kabašinskaitė, Dr. G. Miškinienė (part-time), Dr. J. Pakerys, Dr. V. Rinkevičius, Dr. M. Villanueva Svensson.
Assistants: Dr. A. Navickaitė-Klišauskienė, Dr. E. Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė.
Research fellows: Dr. G. Holvoet.
Doctoral students: G. Junčytė, E. Kazakėnaitė, V. Sidaravičienė, D. Tamulaitienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Phonology (Baltic languages and Lithuanian dialects)
Phonetics (Standard Lithuanian and Lithuanian dialects)
Morpho(no)logy (Baltic languages and dialects)
Etymology (Baltic languages and dialects)
Ethnolinguistics (Baltic dialects)
Onomastics (Baltic languages and dialects)
History of written Lithuanian
Historical grammar of the Baltic languages
History of Baltic linguistics

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by University Budget

Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Investigations into the Lexical, Phonological and Grammatical systems of the Baltic Languages. Habil. Dr. B. Stundžia. 2016–2018.

The main activity of the year 2017 was the preparation and publication of several articles and monographs. The focus of the research was on the synchronic, diachronic and typological analysis of the Baltic Languages. In the year 2017 were analyzed and published letter <y> in the second edition of the Knyga nobažnystė, personality of the New Testament editor Tomas Ramza, Baltic context of some Estonian periphrastic causative constructions, Transitivity pairs in Baltic possible Augustin fraze reflection in Mažvydas’ preface, the autenticity of the compound name stem gerd-, circumflex metatony of derivatives and compounds with prefix be- and accented second member in Lithuanian, the reflexes of PIE *pleu̯- and *ḱleu̯- in Balto-Slavic.

A new issue of the journal Baltistica (volume 52.1, 52.2) will be published in January 2018. Some members of the department delivered papers at linguistic conferences and linguistic seminars. The department together with the Institute of the Lithuanian Language Research Centre of Standard Language and Research Centre of Geolinguistics organized the international conference dedicated to Professor Aleksas Girdenis (1936-2011) Transformations of Languages and Dialects.

Main publications:

Villanueva Svensson, M. 2017. Notes on the Balto-Slavic verb: The reflexes of PIE *pleu̯- and *ḱleu̯- in Balto-Slavic, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander & Birgit Anette Olsen (eds.), Etymology and the European Lexicon. Proceedings of the 14th Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, 17-22 September 2012, Copenhagen. Wiesbaden: Reichert, p. 467-478.

Pakerys, J., Nau, N. 2017. Transitivity pairs in Baltic: between Finnic and Slavic, Lingua Posnaniensis, vol. 58(2), p. 83–126.

Kabašinskaitė, B. 2017. Rašmuo <y> antrajame Knygos nobažnystės leidime, Archivum Lithuanicum, vol. 19, p. 39‒52.

Projects Supported by the Ministry of Education and Science

Project: Literary-Dialectological Scholarly Trip of Warsaw’s University Baltistic’s Students to Anykščiai. Dr. G. Holvoet.

The aim of the project is to organize a Literary-dialectological scholarly trip of Warsaw’s University Baltistic’s students to Anykščiai.

Project: Baltic bridges. Dr. J. Pakerys.

The aim of the project is to scatter the diffusion of Lithuanian languages and culture in Estonia through the mobility of scholars and students.

Project: To Lithuania. Dr. D. Sinkevičiūtė.

The aim of the project is to invite lecturers to Cracow University to teach topics related to the Baltic languages and cultures.

Projects Supported by the Research Council of Lithuania

Project: Publication of Volumes 51–53 of Baltistica, Journal of Baltic Linguistics. Habil. Dr. B. Stundžia. 2016–2018.

The aim of the project is to prepare and publish the volumes 48–50 of the journal Baltistica.

Project: Chilinski’s New Testament. Research of the Manuscript, Facsimile and Interactive Publication in the Internet. Dr. G. Holvoet. 2016–2018.

The aim of the project is to publish Chilinski’s book and to publish in the internet an interactive text of Chilski’s New Testament.

Project: Translation of New Baltic Works. Dr. V. Rinkevičius. 2016–2017.

The aim of the project is to translate Rinkevičius’ books Prūsistikos pagrindai and Baltų ir slavų kalbų kirčiavimo istorija into German.

Project: Compounds in old (15^th–18^th c.) Bilingual German-Prussian/Lithuanian/Latvian or Lithuanian/Latvian/Prussian-German Dictionaries. Habil. Dr. B. Stundžia. 2016–2018.

The aim of the project is to research compounds in the dictionaries of the 15^th–18^th c. and write a monograph about it.

Project: Periphrastic Causatives in the Baltic Languages. Dr. J. Pakerys. 2016–2018.

The aim of the project is to research the Baltic causative constructions from a historical, typological and areal perspective using data from the 16^th-17^th c. and from the modern language.

Project Baltic historical grammar, 2016–2017 (Dr. M. Villanueva Svensson)

The aim of the project is to prepare a historical grammar of the Baltic languages and write some scientific research articles.

Project Supported by the EU Structural Funds

Project: Lithuanian Academic Scheme for International Cooperation in Baltic Studies. Dr. G. Holvoet. 2017–2023.

The aim of the project is to strengthen the centres of Lithuanian (Baltic) studies abroad, to promote their activities and cooperation with scholarly and academic institutions of Lithuania in order to improve the quality of higher education.

Main publications:

Rinkevičius, V. 2017. Altpreußisch: Geschichte - Dialekte - Grammatik / von Vytautas Rinkevičius. Hamburg: Baar, 255 p.

Pakerys, J. 2017. Old Prussian dāt ‘give’ in causative and hortative constructions, Baltic Linguistics vol. 8, p. 115–141.

Pakerys J., Periphrastic causative constructions in 16th century Latvian, Baltu filoloģija, vol. 26(1), p. 87–106.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Agency of the Latvian Language
University of Latvia (Latvia)
State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
University of Greifswald (Germany)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Habil. Dr. B. Stundžia –

member of the Academy of Europe Academia Europaea, http://www.aeinfo.org/ae/User/Stund%C5%BEia_Bonifacas;
member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences;
member of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language;
editor of the Baltistica, journal of Baltic Linguistics, http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/about/editorialTeam;
editorial board member of the journals Balto-Slavjanskie Issledovanija (Moscow), Baltu filoloģija (Riga) and Acta-Baltico Slavica (Warsaw);
corresponding member of the Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese (Italy);
member of the Committee of the BA Study Programme of Spanish Philology;
member of the Association of the Lithuanian Language, http://www.lkd.flf.vu.lt/kontaktai.html .

Dr. B. Jasiūnaitė –

member of the association Academia Salensis, http://www.academiasalensis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=25&Itemid=47&lang=en .

Dr. G. Holvoet –

editorial board member of the journal Res Humanitariae, http://www.ku.lt/leidykla/leidiniai/moksliniai-zurnalai/res-humanitariae/;
member of the managing board of the association Academia Salensis, http://www.academiasalensis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=25&Itemid=47&lang=en

Dr. B. Kabašinskaitė –

editorial board member of the journal Archivum Lithuanicum (Vilnius), http://www.lki.lt/LKI_LT/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=916 ;
editorial board member of the journal Baltistica, journal of Baltic Linguistics, http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/about/editorialTeam.

Dr. G. Miškinienė –

consultant of the magazine Türkiyat Araştırmaları (Konja, Turkey);
member of the Slavist’s Association.

Dr. J. Pakerys –

editorial board member of the journal Archivum Lithuanicum (Vilnius), http://www.lki.lt/LKI_LT/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=916);
member of the managing board of the association Academia Salensis, http://www.academiasalensis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=25&Itemid=47&lang=en;
member of the Committee of the BA Study Programme of Lithuanian Philology.

Dr. V. Rinkevičius –

editorial board member of the the journal Baltistica, journal of Baltic Linguistics, http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/about/editorialTeam.

Dr. D. Sinkevičiūtė –

member of the International Omomastics Association (ICOS);
member of the Subcommission for Proper names of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (http://www.vlkk.lt/struktura-ir-kontaktai/komisija/pakomises);
member of the Committee of the BA Study Programme of Lithuanian Philology.

Dr. M. Villanuevs Svensson –

member of the international society Indogermanische Gesellschaft;
chair of the Committee of the BA Study Programme of Spanish Philology;
editorial board member of the the journal Baltistica, journal of Baltic Linguistics, http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/about/editorialTeam.

Dr. E. Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė –

member of the association Academia Salensis; http://www.academiasalensis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=25&Itemid=47&lang=en .

DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, LT-01122 Vilnius

Tel. 268 72 30, fax 268 7

E-mail:

http://www.flf.vu.lt/vfk

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eglė Kontutytė

STAFF

Associate professors: Dr. A. Burov, Dr. E. Kontutytė, Dr. V. Masiulionytė, Dr. L. Plaušinaitytė, Dr. D. Šileikaitė-Kaishauri, Dr. V. Žeimantienė.
Assistants: Dr. J. Daunorienė, Dr. D. Katinas, Dr. A. Mionskowski (DAAD, since September 2017), Dr. S. Volungevičienė.
Junior assistant: V. Katinienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Contrastive linguistics of German and Lithuanian
Genre analysis, academic discourse
Research of grammatical, semantic and stylistics particularities of German and Lithuanian and their integration into the teaching process and lexicographic practice
History of the German language
Research of German literature

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by University Budget

Investigations of Germanic, Romance and Lithuanian Languages. Prof. A. Usonienė. 2010–2017.

Research in this project ranges from theoretical linguistics to applied linguistics; many investigators use a contrastive approach. In 2017 the members of the Department of German Philology prepared articles (also with co-authors from other universities) and teaching aids. The members of the Department delivered 5 presentations at international conferences in Lithuania, Latvia and Finland.

Main publications:

Haß, U., Kontutytė, Eglė, Žeimantienė, V. 2017. KoGloss – Ein Projekt hat doch kein Ende. Perspektiven in Forschung und Lehre. Deutsch: lokal – regional – global. Festschrift für Gerhard Stickel zum 80. Geburtstag. Jarochna Dąbrowska-Burkhardt, Ludwig M. Eichinger, Uta Itakura (Hrsg.). Tübingen: Narr. 233–246. (Studien zur deutschen Sprache – Forschungen des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache 77).

Kontutytė, E. 2017. Einführung in die Fachsprachenlinguistik. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla.

Masiulionytė, V., Žeimantienė, V. 2017. Deutsche Lerngrammatik unter Berücksichtigung des Litauischen: Der verbale Bereich. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla.

Germanic and Romance Literary and Cultural Texts. Prof. R. Rudaitytė. 2010–2017.

The members of Department carried out investigation of literary trends, genres and problems of poetics, the development of literary traditions, the relationship of literary texts with Philosophy, Aesthetics, Psychology, Sociology and other theoretical systems. In 2017 the members of the Department prepared one teaching aid and delivered 6 presentations at national and international conferences in Lithuania, German, Finland and Poland.

Main publication:

Burov, A. 2017. Karolingų epochos vokiečių aukštaičių literatūra: Hildebrando giesmė, Muspilli giesmė, Liudviko giesmė. Vilniaus universitetas.

Projects Supported by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language

Project: Research of Phrasemes in Student Writing and an Interactive Phrase Bank. Dr. L. Plaušinaitytė, Dr. S. Volungevičienė (participants in the project). 2017–2019.

Project home page: http://www.fraziskumas.flf.vu.lt/english/about-the-project/.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Germany)
University of Innsbruck (Austria)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aleksej Burov –

coordinator of the KAAD-East-Europe-Programme in Lithuania;
member of the Austrian Association for German Studies;
member of the Lithuanian DAAD Club (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst).

Dr. J. Daunorienė –

member of the Austrian Association for German Studies;
member of the Lithuanian division of German Language Society (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache).

Dr. D. Katinas –

chairperson of the Lithuanian DAAD Club (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst);
chairperson of the Lithuanian division of German Language Society (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache);
member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics;
member of the German Language Teachers Association of Lithuania.

V. Katinienė –

member of the German Language Teachers Association of Lithuania.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. E. Kontutytė –

member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics, www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt;
member of the Lithuanian division of German Language Society (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache);
member of the German Language Teachers Association of Lithuania.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Masiulionytė –

member of the Lithuanian division of German Language Society (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache).

Dr. A. Mionskowski –

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) lecturer.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. L. Plaušinaitytė –

member of the Lithuanian DAAD Club (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst).

Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Šileikaitė-Kaishauri –

head of the Study Quality Commission at Vilnius University;
member of the Lithuanian division of German Language Society (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache);
member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics;
member of the German Language Teachers Association of Lithuania;
member of the association Academia Salensis.

Dr. S. Volungevičienė –

member of the Lithuanian division of German Language Society (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache);
member of the Lithuanian DAAD Club (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst);
member of the German Language Teachers Association of Lithuania.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Žeimantienė –

vice editor-in-chief of the journal Kalbotyra (Linguistics);
editorial board member of the journal Moderne Sprachen (Austria);
editorial board member of the journal Triangulum (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania);
chairperson of the board of the Association Academia Salensis;
board member of the Lithuanian DAAD Club (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst);
member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics, www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt;
member of the Lithuanian division of German Language Society (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache);
member of the German Language Teachers Association of Lithuania.

DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius

Tel. 268 7224, Tel. / fax 268 7225

E-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pavel Lavrinec

STAFF

Professors: Habil. Dr. E. Lassan, Dr. A. Lichačiova, Dr. G. Michailova.
Associate professors: Dr. A. Belovodskaja, Dr. D. Beržaitė, Dr. J. Brazauskienė, Dr. J. Konickaja, Dr. P. Lavrinec, Dr. I. Vidugirytė-Pakerienė.
Assistantas: Dr. J. Snežko, S. Markova.
Lecturers: R. Čičinskaitė, V. Stankevičiūtė.
Doctoral students: G. Bidlauskienė, T. Čenys, V. Girininkaitė, A. S. Ivinskaja, I. Kisieliūtė, S. Markova, A. Samoilenko (Šalkinė).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The history of interaction of Russian and Lithuanian literature
The interface of Lithuanian, Russian and other Slavonic literatures and cultures
Styles, genres and methods of interpretation of Russian literature
Russian literary history of the 20^th century
Sociolinguistics
The relation between Russian language and Russian cultura
The Russian language in Lithuania
Cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis
Russian language (as a native and as a foreign language) teaching and learning, concepts of Russian language course books
Lithuanian-Slavonic (Russian) contrastive linguistics
The Slavonic literary tradition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by University Budget

Russian and other Slavonic Languages, Literatures, Cultural Research: the History and Now. Assoc. Prof. Dr. P. Lavrinec. 2010–2017.

The department has been carrying out investigations in the fields of the Russian political and other discourses, the relation between Russian language and Russian culture, Baltic-Slavonic contrastive /comparative studies, sociolinguistic aspects of the Russian language in Lithuania, Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries and methods of interpretation of Russian literature, the relationship of literary texts with Philosophy and Sociology. Some of the academic staff has been continually doing research on the archive studies of literature and culture of interwar Lithuania and publishing articles on the related issues. The results of the aforementioned studies presented in a number of scientific papers and presentations at international academic conferences.

Main publications:

Lichačiova, A. 2017. Русская коммуникативная культура и ее вербальные проявления: в сопоставлении с литовской и другими коммуникативными культурами [The Russian communicative culture and its verbal manifestations in comparison with Lithuanian and other communicative cultures]. Vilnius: Vilnius University, 292 p.

Michailova, G. 2017. The Russian European: the Phenomenon of Mikhail Shishkin. Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences 9 (2017 10), p. 1368–1381.

Brazauskienė, J., Lichačiova, A., Ramonienė, M. 2017. Russian as a heritage language in Lithuania. In: The Routlege handbook of heritage language education: from innovation to program building / edited by Olga E. Kagan, Maria M. Carreira, Claire Hitchens Chik. New York: Routledge Taylor&Francis Group, p. 282–297.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

East Slavonic Institute, Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland)
European University Viadrina, Frankfurt am Oder (Germany)
Institute of Philology and Language Communication, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk (Russia)
Ljubljana University (Slovenia)
Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Moscow (Russia)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Habil. Dr. E. Lassan –

editorial board member of the periodical Agora: politinių komunikacijų studijos (Vytautas Magnus University); http://biblioteka.vdu.lt/en/agora-eng;
editorial board member of the scientific periodical Политическая лингвистика (Political linguistics; Ural State Pedagogical University, Yekaterinburg); http://journals.uspu.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=221&Itemid=175;
editorial board member of the periodical Studia Rusycystyczne Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego (Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce); http://ifo.ujk.edu.pl/?page_id=1703;
editorial board member of the scientific periodical Вестник Российского Университета Дружбы народов. Серия «Лингвистика» (Linguistics Journal of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow); http://193.232.218.56/web-local/fak/rj/index.php?id=23&p=143;
editorial board member of the international scientific journal Жанры речи (Speech Genres, Saratov State National Research University, Russia); http://zhanry-rechi.sgu.ru/ru/redakcionnaya-kollegiya;
editorial board member of the research journal Taikomoji kalbotyra (Applied Linguistics); http://taikomojikalbotyra.lt/lt/redakcija;
editorial board member of the journal Slavistica Vilnensis; http://www.journals.vu.lt/index.php/slavistica-vilnensis/pages/view/editorial-board editorial board member of the scientific periodical Лингвориторическая парадигма: теоретические и прикладные аспекты (Sochi State University, Russia); http://uapryal.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/1.1.1.LR-paradigma.2013.No_.18..pdf.

Prof. Dr. A. Lichačiova –

member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA), www.vu.lt;
editorial board member of the journal Slavistica Vilnensis; http://www.journals.vu.lt/index.php/slavistica-vilnensis/pages/view/editorial-board.

Prof. Dr. G. Michailova –

editorial board member of the research journal Literatūra (Literature); http://www.journals.vu.lt/literatura/pages/view/editorial-board.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Belovodskaja –

member of the Media Linguistic Commission of the International Slavists Committee (under the auspices of UNESCO); http://medialing.spbu.ru/medialingvistika_v_litsax/44-483.html;
member of the Linguistic Persuasion Research Laboratory (Pracownia Badań nad Perswazją Językową przy Instytucie Rusycystyki i Studiów Wschodnich UG); http://fil.ug.edu.pl/sites/default/files/_nodes/strona-filologiczny/63632/files/laboratoriya_vozdeistvie_0.pdf;
member of the Scientific and Organising Committee of the 7th international conference Linguistic, Educational and Intercultural Research 2017; http://www.conference.uki.vu.lt/conference-sientific-and-orgnising-committee/.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Beržaitė –

member of the Lithuanian Society of Comparative Literature.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. J. Brazauskienė –

member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics, www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. J. Konickaja –

editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Slavistica Vilnensis; http://www.journals.vu.lt/index.php/slavistica-vilnensis/pages/view/editorial-board.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. P. Lavrinec –

editorial board member of the scientific periodical Рема. Rhema (Moscow State University of Education), http://мпгу.рф/ob-mpgu/izdaniya-mpgu/zhurnal-rhema-rema/redaktsiya-zhurnala/;
member of the International Editorial Council of the academic journal Литературный факт (Literary Fact, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences), http://litfact.ru/en/editorial-board;
scientific committee member of the intenational interdisciplinary conference 1917: the man of letters and the literary scholar: engineers, witnesses and victims of a turning point in history and of a social breakdown, Sofia, May 11–13, 2017; Institute for Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the Institute of Special and Intercultural Communication of Warsaw University and Institute of Philology and Journalism of Tyumen University), http://veeb.ut.ee/FLVE/ruslit/ruthenia/mestosoznanie_17_objavl_ed.pdf.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Vidugirytė-Pakerienė –

member of the Russian Environmental History Network, http://www.reh.spruz.com/profile/Inga-Vidugiryte/;
member of the Association for Literary Urban Studies, http://blogs.helsinki.fi/hlc-n/members/.

CENTRE OF POLISH STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius

Tel.: 268 72 37, 268 72 36

E-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Miroslav Davlevič

STAFF

Professor: Dr. K. Rutkovska.
Associate professors: Dr. Davlevič, Dr. V. Ušinskienė, Dr. K. Geben, Dr. I. Fedorovič.
Assistants: Dr. T. Dalecka, Dr. R. Jakubėnas.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Polish linguistics and literature: past and present
History of interaction of Polish and Lithuanian literatures and cultures
Styles, genres and methods of interpretation of Polish literature
Textual poetics and its relations to philosophical, aesthetical, sociological systems
The Polish language in Lithuania: past and present
History of written Polish
Polish manuscript tradition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Polish language (as a native and as a foreign language) teaching and learning
Bilingualism and multilingualism in Lithuania
Sociolinguistics
Ethno-linguistics
Etymology
Lexicography
Translation of professional texts

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by University Budget

Functioning of Polish Literature in Lithuania. Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Fedorovič. 2007–2018.

The research aims at indicating the peculiarities of Polish literature in Lithuania, analysing its relationship with other literatures, especially with Lithuanian. The subject of research was chosen as problems of literary process (Publishing activities of Vilnius Academy in 18^th-century; bilingual literature of 19^th c. in Lithuania, studies of Polish literature at Vilnius University in 1918–1939). Also creative work of Polish writers having close connections with Lithuania (Cz. Miłosz, J. Mackiewicz, Cz. Jankowski) was investigated. The results were announced in papers and reports.

Problems of the Polish Language, Culture, History and Ethno-linguistics in Lithuania. Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Davlevič, Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Ušinskienė. 2007–2018.

Historical and sociolinguistic exploring of Polish dialects in Lithuania is continued. An interactive map of Polish dialects was prepared and announced. Also Polish manuscript tradition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was investigated. The results were announced in papers and reports.

There is some research conducted in the contemporary Polish language: lexicological, source materials, the language of children, the language of intelligence, students’ slang, Polish media’s language in Lithuania, vocabulary of the scope of politics used by Polish people of Vilnius district. Several articles were published.

New issue of the journal Slavistica Vilnensis 2017 (62) was prepared and published, J. Konickaja, N. Morozova, V. Ušinskienė (eds). Vilnius: Vilnius University (together with the Department of Russian Philology).

International Science Programmes. Projects and Contracts

Multimedial Guide of Polish Dialects in Lithuania (project sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland) Assoc. Prof. Dr. K. Rutkovska, Prof. Dr. V. Ušinskienė. 2015–2018.

Names of Lithuanian Places in Polish: a Normative Dictionary (project sponsored by the Senate of the Republic of Poland, headed by Halina Karaś /University of Warsaw/). Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Davlevič, Assoc. Prof. Dr. K. Geben. 2017.

National Research Projects

Language. Nation. State. Analysis of Concepts Based on Cognitive Definition Method (project sponsored by the Lithuanian Language Commission, headed by I. Smetonienė). Prof. Dr. K. Rutkovska. 2017–2018.

Main publications:

Rutkovska, K., Smetona, M., Smetonienė, I. 2017. Vertybės lietuvio pasaulėvaizdyje. Vilnius: Akademinė leidyba, 300 p.

Davlevič, M. 2017. Trumpoji lenkų kalbos gramatika: mokomoji priemonė (An Outline of the Polish grammar: Teaching Materials), Vilnius: Vilnius University, 83 p. http://www.flf.vu.lt/mokslas/elektroniniai-istekliai#vadoveliai-mokymo-priemones

Ušinskienė, V. 2017. Mokomės lenkų veiksmažodžių: mokomoji knyga (Learn Polish Verbs: Grammar and Exercise Book). Vilnius: Vilnius University, 158 p.

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Davlevič –

member of the Polish Society of Arts and Sciences Abroad (London);
editorial board member of the journal The Linguistic Guide / Poradnik Językowy (University of Warsaw, Poland), http://www.tkj.uw.edu.pl/porjez/rada_redakcyjna.html;
scientific board member of the journal Papers in Linguistics / Prace Językoznawcze (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland), http://www.uwm.edu.pl/polonistyka/pracejezykoznawcze/?strona=3;
reviewer of the scientific publishing Language and Culture / Język a Kultura (University of Wroclaw, Poland), http://www.jk.sjol.eu/page/recenzenci-27.

Prof. Dr. K. Rutkovska –

member of the Commission on Dialectology of the International Slavistic Committee;
member of the Council of the journal Acta Baltico-Slavica;
member of the Council of the journal Acta Univetsitatis Lodziensis Folia Linguistica.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Ušinskienė –

co-editor of the journal Slavistica Vilnensis (Kalbotyra);
member of the Lithuanian Slavonic Studies Association;
editorial review board member of the journal DIE WELT DER SLAVEN: SAMMELBÄNDE (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag).

Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Fedorovič -

editorial board member of the journal Wiek XIX.

Dr. R. Jakubėnas –

member of the Polish Society for Eighteenth Century Studies;
Academia Europaea Sarbieviana - Chairman of the Lithuanian branch.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Warsaw University (Poland)
Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
University of Silesia (Poland)
Jagiellonian University (Poland)
Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland)

CENTRE OF SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7235, 268 7234, fax 268 7235
E-mail, administrator:
http://www.skandinavistika.flf.vu.lt/
http://www.flf.vu.lt/struktura/katedros/skandinavistikos-centras

Head – Dr. Rasa Baranauskienė

STAFF

Professor: Habil. Dr. A. Holvoet (part-time).
Associate professors: Dr. E. Sausverde, Dr. A. Mickūnaitė-Griškevičienė, Dr. I. Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė, Dr. S. Pivoras (part-time), Dr. L. Vaicekauskienė (part-time).
Assistants: Dr. R. Baranauskienė, Dr. G. Tamaševičius, Dr. B. Spraunienė, A. Žuklytė (part-time).
Lecturers: E. Išganaitytė, J. Kumetaitienė, J. Petronytė, V. Groven, K. Podschivalow, J. Degrenius, A. Petrauskaitė, V. Vukotic, A. Merkliopaitė, I. Toleikytė, Emil Slott, A. Braškytė-Jasiulionienė, R. Ciburevkinaitė.
Doctoral students: R. Trakymaitė, D. Pinkevičienė, A. Žuklytė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Comparative and contrastive studies of Scandinavian and Baltic languages
Investigation into Scandinavian languages on different levels of their structure (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics etc.)
Integration of linguistic research into the process of teaching and lexicographical practice, preparation of handbooks, textbooks, dictionaries etc.
Old and contemporary Scandinavian literature, history and anthropology of Scandinavia
Old Norse-Icelandic textual and literary studies

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by University Budget

Germanic, Romance and Baltic Language Studies. Prof. A. Usonienė. 2010–2017.

The Centre of Scandinavian Studies participates in this project together with other Departments of the Faculty of Philology.
Research based on an interdisciplinary approach combining linguistics, archeology, genetics and dealing with the oldest contacts around the Baltic Sea was commenced.

Main publications:

Holvoet, A. 2017. Antipassive reflexives in Latvian. In Baltic Linguistics 8, 2017, p. 57–96.

Spraunienė, B. 2017. Review of Anna Kibort & Nijolė Maskaliūnienė (ed.). Passive Constructions in Lithuanian: Selected Works of Emma Geniušienė. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins Company, 2016. Baltistica, vol. LII(1), p. 171–180.

Vaicekauskienė, L., Šepetys, N. 2017. Lithuanian language planning: a battle for language and power. In Ernest Andrews (ed.) Language Planning in the Post-Communist Era: The Struggles for Language Control in the New Order in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China. Springer, p. 193–218.

Germanic and Romance Literary and Cultural Texts. Prof. R. Rudaitytė. 2010–2020.

The Centre of Scandinavian Studies participates in this project together with other Departments of the Faculty of Philology.
Research in the 20th–21st century Nordic literature was continued with the focus on Scandinavian narrative prose. A comparative research on the evolution of the culture hero was carried out.

Main publications:

Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė, I. 2017. (ed). Edda Snorri Sturluson / translated from Old Icelandic by Rasa Ruseckienė, Vilnius: Akademinė leidyba, 2017, 256 p.

Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė, I. 2017. Плавучий символ: "Бури" Карен Бликсен как метапроза, Скандинавская филология. Санкт-Петербург : Издательство Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета, 2016, T. 14, no 1. p. 102–114; doi: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2016.109.

Language Usage, Language Learning and Teaching. Prof. M. Ramonienė. 2006–2017.

The Centre of Scandinavian Studies participates in this project together with other Departments of the Faculty of Philology.
The work on the Norwegian-Lithuanian (about 40 000 entries) and Swedish-Lithuanian (about 30 000 entries) dictionaries was continued. Writing of practical handbooks of Scandinavian (Danish and Swedish, Old Norse) languages was carried on.
Compilation of small Scandinavian (Icelandic, Norwegian)-Lithuanian Dictionaries was carried on.
Research in the areas of Lithuanian sociolinguistics, language planning and standardization ideologies was continued.

International Research Projects

Nordic Council of Ministers’ program: Nordplus Neighbour (supporting the wide-scale project NordUd, including professors’ exchange, coordinator Jim Degrenius).

NordUd is an international network focusing on developing and enhancing the quality of education at Scandinavian departments, departments of Finnish and departments of linguistics in the Nordic countries and the Baltic States. This aim is reached through various forms of cooperation and exchange of knowledge, experience and best practice. Through offering the best possible educations in Scandinavian Studies and Finnish the NordUd network supports and strengthens mutual Nordic-Balticlinguistic and cultural understanding. NordUd is coordinated by Skandinavistikos Centras at Vilnius University.
http://www.flf.vu.lt/struktura/katedros/skandinavistikos-centras/1498-nordud.
Project partners: Vilnius University, Helsinki University, Iceland University, Copenhagen University, Stockholm University, Latvia University, Tartu University.

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Habil. Dr. A. Holvoet –

managing editor of the journal Baltic Linguistics (University of Warsaw);
editorial board member of the journal Linguistica Copernicana (Torune);
editorial board member of the journal Balto-slavjanskie issledovanija (Moscow) ;
editorial board member of the journal Slavistica Vilnensis (Vilnius);
director of the association of Academia Salensis, http://www.academiasalensis.org/en/about-us/structure-of-as.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. E. Sausverde –

editorial board member for Scandinavistica Vilnensis series;
Head of of the organising committee of the International Symposium 25 years of Scandinavian Studies at Vilnius University, May 26, 2017;
Coordinator of Scandinavian academic week, May 22–25, 2017;
Coordinator of Interdisciplinary scientific seminars;
Participant of Svenska institutets konferens för svensklärare i utlandet, Skovsjöholm, Stokholm, August, 17–19, 2017;
Participant of Svensklärarkonferens, Minsk, Belarus, October, 13–15, 2017.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Mickūnaitė-Griškevičienė –

member of Litaka (the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association), www.litaka.lt.

Dr. B. Spraunienė –

member of the association Academia Salensis, http://www.academiasalensis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=25&Itemid=47&lang=en.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė –

Head of the editorial board of Scandinavistica Vilnensis series;
member of IASS (International Association of Scandinavian Studies);
member of SASS (Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies)

Dr. G. Tamaševičius –

member of AABS (Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies);
member of SwiSca (The Research Network for Swearing in the Nordic Countries);
member of LITAKA (Association of Applied Linguistics of Lithuania), www.litaka.lt.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. L. Vaicekauskienė –

advisory board member for international database Lituanistika at the Research Council of Lithuania;
board member of the Association of Applied Linguistics of Lithuania;
member of the editorial board of journal Taikomoji kalbotyra/Applied Linguistics, www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt;
member of EATAW (European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing).

INSTITUTE FOR LITERARY AND CULTURAL RESEARCH

DEPARTMENT OF LITHUANIAN LITERATURE

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius

Tel. 268 72 16

E-mail:

Head – Prof. Dr. Dainora Pociūtė-Abukevičienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr. D. Pociūtė-Abukevičienė, Prof. V. Daujotytė-Pakerienė (emeritus).
Associate professors: Dr. D. Čiočytė, Dr. A. Peluritytė-Tikuišienė, Dr. R. Tamošaitis, Dr. R. Tūtlytė, Dr. K. Urba (part-time), Dr. D. Kuolys, Dr. M. Kvietkauskas (part-time), Dr. B. Speičytė.
Assistants: Dr. S. Matulevičienė (part-time), Dr. N. Klišienė.
Doctoral students: G. Petuchovaitė-Majauskė, E. Malažinskaitė, A. Strelcova-Kelpšė, V. Katinienė, E. Buožytė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Development of early modern and modern Lithuanian literature
Cultural and confessional identity and literature
Phenomenological interpretation of literature
Methodology of literary studies
Literary tale
Comparative folklore studies
Comparative literature studies

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Lithuanian Literature and Studies of Culture. Prof. D. Pociūtė Abukevičienė. 2007–2017.

The project Christianity and Contemporary Lithuanian Literature (the collective monograph) is an extension of the project Theological Aspects of Lithuanian Literature (monograph) (2011–2013), funded by a grant (Nr. LIT-4-12) from the Research Council of Lithuania. The latter Project’s result is Dalia Ciocyte’s monograph Theology of Literature: Theological Aspects of Lithuanian Literature; it presents the theoretical perspective of theology of literature and the typology of the theological thought of Lithuanian literature. On the basis of this previous study, a new Project aims to examine the Christian values and attitudes in the literature of the Independent Lithuania (since 1990). The result of the study will be the collective monograph Christianity and Contemporary Lithuanian Literature.

Main publications:

Pociūtė, D. 2017. Nematomos tikrovės šviesa. Reformacijos Lietuvoje asmenybės ir idėjos. [The Light of Things Not Seen: The Champions and Ideas of the Reformation in Lithuania], Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, p. 1–331.

Pociūtė, D. 2017. L’arginamento dell’eterodossia riformata nel Granducato di Lituania e in Polonia: il trattato Orthodoxa fidei confessio di Mikołaj Pac [Preventing the Reformation heterodoxy in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland: Orthodoxa fidei confessio by Nicolaus Pac], in: PL.IT / rassegna italiana di argomenti polachi 8, p. 5–21, https://plitonline.it/2017/plit-8-2017-5-21-dainora-pociute.

Kvietkauskas, M. 2017. Poetisches Zeugnis: Abraham Sutzkever", in: Vilne-Wilna-Wilno-Vilnius. Eine Topographie zwischen Mythos und Moderne, Hg. Elke-Vera Kotowski, Julius H. Schoeps, 2017. Berlin: Hentrich&Hentrich, p. 91–101.

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. V. Daujotytė (emeritus) –

member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences;
editorial board member of the journal Literatūra (Literature).

Prof. Dr. D. Pociūtė-Abukevičienė –

editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Reformationis Lithuanicae;
editorial board member of the Literatūra (Literature);
member of the Lithuanian Science Award Commission;
chair of Master programme Literary Anthropology and Culture.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Peluritytė-Tikuišienė –

member of Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association (EKADEL);
member of Academic Commission of VU Faculty of Philology;
chair of Master studies programme committee of Intermedial Literature Studies;
member of Lithuanian Philology bachelor studies programme committee of VU Faculty of Philology;
editorial board member of Teksto slėpiniai.

Assoc. Prof. R. Tamošaitis –

editorial board member of the literary journal of the Lithuanian literature and criticism Metai (Years).

Assoc. Prof. K. Urba –

chairman of the Lithuanian section of International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY);
editor-in-chief of the magazine for children’s literature Rubinaitis;
president of the organising committee of the annual conference of children’s literature Prano Mašioto skaitymai.

Assoc. Prof. D. Čiočytė –

expert of the Research Council of Lithuania.

Assoc. Prof. B. Speičytė –

editorial board member of the journal Colloquia.

Assoc. Prof. M. Kvietkauskas –

editorial board member of the journal of Lithuanian literature and criticism Metai (Years).

Dr. N. Klišienė –

member of Lithuanian Philology bachelor studies programme committee of VU Faculty of Philology;
member of Master studies programme committee of Intermedial Literature Studies.

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius

Tel. 268 72 45

E-mail:

www.vsk.flf.vu.lt

Head – Prof. Dr. Nijolė Maskaliūnienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr. J. Grigaliūnienė, Dr. L. Kaminskienė, Dr. N. Maskaliūnienė, Dr. I. Šeškauskienė.
Associate professor: Dr. L. Černiuvienė.
Lecturers: Dr. R. Klioštoraitytė, Dr. M. Paura, D. Valentinavičienė, V. Vilkienė; I. Gelžinytė, E. Khiterer Dr. R. Užgiris (part-time), A. Dailidėnaitė (part-time), R. Darbutaitė (part-time), A. Zolubienė (part-time), R. Kičaitė (part-time); D. Guogienė (part-time), N. Terleckaitė (part-time).
Research fellow: Dr. A. Ratkus.
Doctoral students: D. Mankauskienė, I. Tatolytė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Translation Studies
Theory and practice of translation
Literary translation
The (Gothic) Bible translation
Interpreting
Corpus studies for translation purposes
Theory and practice of lexicography and terminology
Integration of research results into the teaching process
Translator/interpreter training

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Meta-Cognitive Investigation of Translation as Bilingual Communication. Prof. Dr. N. Maskaliūnienė. 2015–2020.

In 2017, the academic staff of the Department wrote articles, participated at conferences on literary translation, translation theory and translation training methodology (gave 19 presentations at different international conferences). The Department publishes a research journal Vertimo studijos (Translation Studies). In 2017, its volume 10 was published containing 14 articles on different aspects of Translation Studies (4 articles authored by the researchers of the Department).

Main publications:

Ratkus, A. 2017. Features of the Gothic adjective, with special reference to determination. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, p. 103–115.

Tumosaitė, A., Grigaliūnienė, J. 2017. Kultūriniai konceptai kalboje: episteminės frazės “I think” ir su ja susijusių modelių ypatumai ir jų vertimas į lietuvių kalbą. Vertimo studijos. Mokslo darbai Nr. 10, p. 135–155.

Noreika,M., Šeškauskienė, I. 2017. EU regulations: Tendencies of translating lexical bundles from English into Lithuanian. Vertimo studijos. Mokslo darbai Nr. 10, p. 156–174.

Projects supported by the Lithuanian Research Council

Development and Distribution of Applied Linguistics (July–December 2017). Project coordinator Prof. Dr. I. Šeškauskienė.

The project aims at promoting applied linguistic research in Lithuania and abroad. Its main activities are concerned with updating the website taikomojikalbotyra.lt. Its new website would contribute to a more efficient work with the authors and reviewers, to enhancing the visibility of Lithuanian researchers outside Lithuania and to attracting more scholars from abroad.

Projects support by the Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators and the Ministry of Culture

2017 – The Year of Italian Literature (January–December 2017), coordinator Dr. R. Klioštoraitytė.

The year devoted to Italian literature and its translation aimed at promoting Italian literature in Lithuania. There were a great many events, competions and seminars including a special issue of the journal Hieronymus (vol. 4) (introductory article written by Rasa Klioštoraitytė), a competion “I want to be a translator”, research in several aspects of translation theory based on Italian scholarly tradition.

International Research Projects

European Commission funded project

On-line Resources for Conference Interpreter Training (ORCIT VI) (2011–2018). Project coordinator Prof. Dr. N. Maskaliūnienė.

The aim of the ORCIT project is to develop and pilot an open interactive multi-media learning resource in conference interpreting skills using a designated website for this purpose (www.orcit.eu). The interactive medium is intended for postgraduate interpreter training schools in the EU member states and non-EU countries where postgraduate training in conference interpreting is being offered or envisaged. The partners of the project comprise the University of Vilnius, Lithuania, the University of Leeds, UK, Aristotle University of Tsesaloniki, Greece, Charles University in Prague, La Laguna University of Tenerrife, Spain, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and ISIT in Paris, France.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic)
Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)
University of Leeds, Centre of Translation and Interpreting Studies (theUnited Kingdom)
University of Heidelberg (Germany)
ISIT, Paris (France)
University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Aristotle University of Tsesaloniki (Greece)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. J. Grigaliūnienė –

editorial board member of the journal Respectus Philologicus, http://www.rephi.knf.vu.lt/;
member of Learner Corpus Association, http://www.learnercorpusassociation.org/;
member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
member of the Association of Applied Linguistics of Lithuania (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt;
member of the Scientific Committee of the international conference Translation: Sameness, Likeness and Match, October 5–6, 2017, www.vertimas2017.flf.vu.lt;
chair of the Defence Committee of Justina Urbonaitė’s doctoral dissertation Metaphor in Written Academic Legal Discourse: A Cross-Linguistic Study, defended on 30 May 2017.

Prof. Dr. L. Kaminskienė –

editorial board member of the journal Vertimo studijos (Translation Studies): www.vsk.flf.vu.lt/Vertimo studijos/;
board member of the English Speaking Union Lithuania;
member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
member of the Association of Applied Linguistics of Lithuania (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt;
supervisor of 1 doctoral dissertation (completed in 2017);
member of the examining board of doctoral students (two examinations: Lina Abraitienė in February 2017 and Kristina Svarevičiūtė in November 2017);
scientific committee member of the international conference Translation: Sameness, Likeness and Match, October 5–6, 2017, www.vertimas2017.flf.vu.lt.

Prof. Dr. N. Maskaliūnienė –

editor-in-Chief of the journal Vertimo Studijos (Translation Studies), www.vsk.flf.vu.lt/Vertimo studijos/;
member of the Consulting Group for the preparation of the Lithuanian Style Guide for translators at EU institutions (with the State Lithuanian Language Commission) (on-going), http://ec.europa.eu/translation/lithuanian/guidelines/documents/interinstitutional_translation_guide_lt.pdf;
member of the Lithuanian Terminology Forum, www.ec.europa.eu/ltf;
member of the Association of Applied Linguistics of Lithuania (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt;
member of the European Society of Translation Studies, www.est-translation.org;
chair of the scientific committee of the international conference Translation: Sameness, Likeness and Match, October 5–6, 2017, www.vertimas2017.flf.vu.lt;
member of the Defence Committee of Daiva Šidiškytė’s doctoral dissertation The Transformations of the Expression of Humour in Audiovidual Translation, defended on 2 June 2017, Kaunas Faculty.
April 24–30, 2017 – Erasmus+ exchange programme, lecturing at the University of Pisa, Italy.

Prof. Dr. I. Šeškauskienė

editor-in-chief of the electronic journal Taikomoji kalbotyra, www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt;
member of the Association of Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM), http://www.raam.org.uk/Home.html;
member of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association, http://www.uk-cla.org.uk/;
member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), http://www.societaslinguistica.eu;
member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), http://www.essenglish.org;
board member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA), http://www.litaka.lt;
member of Academia Salensis, http://www.academiasalensis.org;
member of the US-LT Alumni Association, http://usltalumni.wordpress.com;
member of the examining board of doctoral students (one examination: Monika Bodgzevič);
member of the programme committee of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 10–13 September 2017, University of Zurich, Switzerland, http://sle2017.eu/downloads/BOOK%20OF%20ABSTRACTS%20final.pdf;
member of the Scientific Committee of the international conference Translation: Sameness, Likeness and Match, October 5–6, 2017, www.vertimas2017.flf.vu.lt;
March 26–31, 2017 – Erasmus+ exchange programme, lecturing at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. L. Černiuvienė –

member of the Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators, www.llvs.lt/;
scientific committee member of the international conference Translation: Sameness, Likeness and Match, October 5–6, 2017, www.vertimas2017.flf.vu.lt.

Dr. R. Klioštoraitytė –

member of the Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators, www.llvs.lt/;
scientific committee member of the international conference Translation: Sameness, Likeness and Match, October 5–6, 2017, www.vertimas2017.flf.vu.lt.

Dr. M. Paura –

member of the Lithuanian Terminology Forum, www.ec.europa.eu/ltf;
scientific committee member of the international conference Translation: Sameness, Likeness and Match, October 5–6, 2017, www.vertimas2017.flf.vu.lt.

Dr. A. Ratkus –

editorial board member of the journal Vertimo studijos (Translation Studies), www.vsk.flf.vu.lt/Vertimo studijos/;
scientific committee member of the international conference Translation: Sameness, Likeness and Match, October 5–6, 2017, www.vertimas2017.flf.vu.lt

A. J. GREIMAS CENTRE OF SEMIOTICS AND LITERARY THEORY

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius

Tel. 268 7161, fax -

E-mail:

Head – Prof. Dr. Arūnas Sverdiolas

STAFF

Professors: Habil. Dr. K. Nastopka, Dr. A. Sverdiolas, Dr. P. Subačius, Dr. I. Melnikova.
Associate professors: Dr. B. Meržvinskytė, Dr. N. Keršytė, Dr. D. Satkauskytė (part-time), Dr. L. Mačianskaitė (part-time).
Lecturers: Dr. J. Katkuvienė, Dr. J. Levina, P. Jevsejevas (part-time).
Doctoral students: R. Bertašavičiūtė, R. Lazauskaitė, D. Gluščevskij, A. Oržekauskienė, G. Smolskaitė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Textual poetics and its relations to philosophical, aesthetical, sociological systems
Semiotic and hermeneutic text analysis
Terminology of literary criticism
Theory of the text, textual scholarship
Intertextuality, intermediality

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by University Budget

Semiotics and Humanities. Prof. Dr. A. Sverdiolas. 2013–2017.

Development of methodological framework in contemporary theory of literature, art studies, philosophy and semiotics. Aspectual analysis of literary and other artistic texts.

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Algirdas Julius Greimas: Person. Dr. J. Katkuvienė, 2016–2017.

The goal of the project was a preparation and publication of the volume 1 of the book Algirdas Julius Greimas: The Self and Ideas. The book is dedicated to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Greimas in 2017 (UNESCO has included the birthday of Greimas in to the list of events to commemorate. The Lithuanian Parliament Comiteee of Education, Science and Culture ploclaimed the year 2017 the national Greimas’ year).

Research Council of Lithuania. Algirdas Julien Greimas: Ideas. Prof. Habil. Dr. A. Sverdiolas, 2016–2018.

This project aims at a systematic examination and reflective revaluation of the heritage of Algirdas Julius Greimas, comprising scholarly work, cultural studies, and journalism, which will provide a context for presenting Greimassian semiotic mythology as a methodologically coherent investigation. The project sets to examine and assess Greimas’s texts of primary importance that have not attracted scholarly attention or have been interpreted in reductive terms. It will also reflect on the theoretical and methodological potential and vitality of the contemporary branches of semiotics grounded on Greimassian methods, as well as reconsidering current issues in contemporary semiotics. The scholarly heritage of Greimas will be presented to the Lithuanian and international public at a number of events celebrating the centenary of Greimas’ birth.

Research Council of Lithuania. Microhistory of The Voices of Spring: Genetic Reconstruction of Modernization of Lithuanian Texts. Prof. P. Subačius. 2017–2019.

Development lasting four decades (since the first published verses in 1885 until 1927) witness the efforts to adapt to the linguistic, ideological and aesthetic modernization, which coincided with the period of Maironis’ creative and social activity. The project targets at a paradoxical gap ‐ although much has been written about Maironis, critics usually heed to the final result of his work only. Author’s decision to re‐edit the sole collection of the verses The Voices of Spring go with the methodology of genetic criticism in the best way. The project aims to carry out a genetic reconstruction, to present the facsimiles, to publish the XML‐encoded versions and commentaries employing a single critical archive, i.e. a comprehensive digital platform, synthesising academic and popularisation functions.

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. Dissemination of Algirdas J. Greimas Egodocumentary Heritage, Dr. J. Levina, 2017.

The core objective of this project was preparation of A. J. Greimas’ archival material for publication and its publication on the web and in print, see http://www.semiotika.lt/AJgreimas/ and http://www.semiotika.lt/greimui-100/.

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. Participation in the International Congress Greimas Today. The Future of the Structure: Semiotics, Language, and Society in Paris. Dr. J. Levina, 2017.

Three Lithuanian scholars of Greimassian semiotics – Nijolė Keršytė, Dalia Satkauskytė, and Dainius Vaitiekūnas – were enabled to participate in the Congress in the framework of this project.

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. The Organisation of the Section to Celebrate the Centenary of A. J. Greimas at the 13^th World Congress of Semiotics. Assoc. Prof. Dr. N. Keršytė, 2017.

The projects enabled the participation of over 25 scholars from around the world in the Congress, their papers ranging from plenary lectures to twenty-minute presentations of current research in Greimassian semiotics.

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. Creation, Development and Administration of Multilingual Website, www.greimas.eu. G. Smolskaitė, 2017.

Main publication:

Algirdas Julius Greimas: asmuo ir idėjos 1, Arūnas Sverdiolas (ed.), Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2017.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius (Lithuania)
Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania)
Department of Lithuanian Literature, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (Lithuania)
Centre de recherches politiques (France)
Ohio University (JAV)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Dr. J. Levina –

member of the Lithuanian Association for Phenomenology;
member of the International James Joyce Foundation.

Prof. Dr. I. Melnikova –

member of European Network for Comparative Literary Studies (REELC/ENCLS), http://encls.net/;
member of Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association (LLLA/LACL),
member of European Narratology Network (ENN).

Prof. Dr. P. Subačius –

vice-president of the LCAS board;
board member of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute;
member of The European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS), The Society for Textual Scholarship (STS), Commission Internationale d'Histoire et d'etudes du Christianisme (CIHEC), The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE).

INSTITUTE OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

DEPARTMENT OF LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius

Tel. 268 7212

http://www.flf.vu.lt/

Head – Prof. Dr. Vytautas Kardelis

STAFF

Professors: Habil. Dr. A. Holvoet (part-time), Dr. V. Kardelis, Dr. I. Smetonienė, Habil. Dr. R. Koženiauskienė.
Associate professors: Dr. N. Linkevičienė, Dr. A. Smetona (part-time), Dr. V. Zubaitienė.
Assistants: Dr. E. Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Dr. A. Valotka (part-time).
Lecturers: K. Bredelis, Dr. G. Judžentytė, L. Laužikas.
Doctoral students: A. Keturakis, D. Liepinytė, I. Makauskaitė, S. Gaigalaitė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sinchronic and Diachronic Lithuanian Grammar:

Phonetics and Phonology (Standard Lithuanian and Lithuanian dialects)
Morphology, lexicology, building of words, lexicography, semantics and syntax, terminology (Standard Lithuanian)

Rhetorics, stilistics, language of journalism, language of text (Standard Lithuanian)

Language culture, methodology of teaching of the Lithuanian, dialectology of the Lithuanian
typology of languages, general linguistics, historical grammar of Lithuanian, history of written Lithuanian

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Project Supported by University Budget

Germanic, Romance and Baltic Language Studies. Prof. Habil. Dr. A. Usonienė, 2010–2017.

The linguists of the Department of Lithuanian Language carry out this research in close collaboration with their colleagues based at the Department of English Philology. The focus of the research is on the synchronic and diachronic analysis of language-specific features characteristic of the grammatical, lexical and semantic structure of the languages under study. The range of research methods used and theoretical approaches followed varies greatly: from purely descriptive to functional, from cognitive to socio-linguistic, from quantitative to qualitative analysis of authentic language data.

Main publications:

Rutkovska, K., Smetona, M., Smetonienė, I. 2017. Vertybės lietuvio pasaulėvaizdyje. Vilnius: Akademinė leidyba.

Judžentytė, G. 2017. Spatial deixis in Lithuanian: demonstrative pronouns. In Valoda: nozīme un forma 8. Valodas gramatiskās un leksiskās sistēmas variatīvums = Language: Meaning and Form 8. Grammatical and lexical variance in language system. Andra Kalnača, Ilze Lokmane (eds). Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, p. 173–193.

Kardelis, V. 2017. Arealinis tipologinis lietuvių kalbos tarmių kompleksiškumas, Lietuvių kalba 11. http://www.lietuviukalba.lt/index.php/lietuviu-kalba/article/view/237.

Smetona, A., Smetonienė, I. 2017. In cerca di una lingua comune: la rinascita del lituano nel XIX secolo, In Dini P.U. (Ed.) Incontri baltistici in Pisa. Studi e saggi (Studia Baltica Pisana, 2). Novi Ligure: Joker Edizioni, p. 9–27.

National Projects

Projects Supported by the Research Council of Lithuania

Project: The Phonology of Lithuanian Highlands Subdialects. Dr. V. Kardelis. 2016–2018.

The aim of the project is to examine the phonology of Lithuanian Highlands Subdialects and to publish a study summarizing the research.

Projects Supported by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language

Project: Language. Nation. State. Dr. I. Smetonienė. 2017–2018.

The aim of the project is to analyze the concepts LANGUAGE, NATION and STATE based on the cognitive definition method.

Project: Research of Phrasemes in Student Writing and an Interactive Phrase Bank. Dr. V. Zubaitienė. 2017–2019.

The aim of the project is to research the usage of academic phrases in student writing in six main study areas of the first study cycle.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (Lithuania)
Institute of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland)
Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest)
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (Poland)
University of Bern (Switzerland)
University of Pisa (Italy)
University of Zurich (Switzerland)
University of Warsaw (Poland)
University of Wrocław (Poland)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Habil. Dr. A. Holvoet –

managing editor of the journal Baltic Linguistics (University of Warsaw);
editorial board member of the journal Linguistica Copernicana (Torune);
editorial board member of the journal Balto-slavjanskie issledovanija (Moscow);
editorial board member of the journal Slavistica Vilnensis (Vilnius);
director of the association of Academia Salensis, http://www.academiasalensis.org/en/about-us/structure-of-as.

Prof. Dr. V. Kardelis –

editorial board member of the Baltistica;
editorial board member of the journal Kalbotyra;
editorial board member of the electronic journal Lietuvių kalba;
expert of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language.

Prof. Habil. Dr. R. Koženiauskienė –

editorial board member of the electronic Lietuvių kalba;
editorial board member of the journal Lituanistica;
editorial board member of the journal Parlamento studijos;
editorial board member of the journal Žurnalistikos tyrimai.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. N. Linkevičienė –

member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association, www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Smetona –

editorial board member of the electronic journal Lietuvių kalba;
editorial board member of the journal Gimtoji kalba;
editorial board member of the journal Aukštojo mokslo kokybė / The Quality of Higher Education;
expert of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language;
member of the Terminology Subcommittee of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language.

Prof. Dr. I. Smetonienė –

editor-in-chief of the electronic journal Lietuvių kalba, http://www.lietuviukalba.lt/index.php/lietuviu-kalba/about/editorialTeam;
editoral board member of the journal Žmogus ir žodis;
expert of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language;
scientific committee member of the 24th international conference of Jonas Jablonskis Digital Language Resources, Directions of Their Development and Possibilities to Harness Them.

Assoc. Prof. V. Zubaitienė –

member of the association of Academia Salensis;
member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association, www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt;
member of Gesellschaft für Baltische Studien (Berlin);
member of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (since November);
expert of the International Research Database Lituanistika.

Dr. G. Judžentytė –

organizing committee member of the 24th international conference of Jonas Jablonskis Digital Language Resources, Directions of Their Development and Possibilities to Harness Them.

DEPARTMENT OF LITHUANIAN STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius

Tel. 268 7214, fax 268 7214

E-mail:

http://www.lsk.flf.vu.lt/

Head – Prof. Dr. Meilutė Ramonienė

STAFF

Professor: Dr. M. Ramonienė.
Associate professors: Dr. B. Stundžienė (part-time), Dr. L.Vilkienė.
Assistants: Dr. E. Gudavičienė, Dr. I. Hilbig.
Lecturers: J. Pribušauskaitė, V. Stumbrienė R. Bingelienė, I. Daraškienė, E. Kutanovienė, R. Migauskienė, E. Petrašiūnienė, A. Tamošaitienė, A. Valančiauskienė, L. Vaškevičienė, Dr. K. Jakaitė-Bulbukienė.
Doctoral students: V. Kazlauskienė, E. Vaisėtaitė, E. Vaivadaitė-Kaidi, E. Žurauskaitė, J. Bružaitė-Liseckienė, J. Mandravickaitė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Applied linguistics
Teaching second / foreign languages
Learning second / foreign languages
Language acquisition
Language attrition
Sociolinguistics
Discourse analysis
Cognitive linguistics
Language testing

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by University Budget

Language Usage, Language Learning and Teaching. Prof. M. Ramonienė. 2016–2026.

The project aims at analysis of language usage, language attitudes, language acquisition, language learning and teaching, language policy, sociolinguistic situation in Lithuania, socially significant changes in the use of Lithuanian and local vernaculars, evolving levels of multilingualism. Papers as well as conference presentations for both national and international conferences were prepared.

Main publications:

Ramonienė, M., Lichačiova, A., Brazauskienė, J. 2017. Russian as a Heritage Language in Lithuania. In Kagan O.E, Carreira, M., M. and Hitchins C. Ch. (eds), Routledge Handbook on Heritage Language Education. From Innovation to Program Buildingm, p. 282–297.

Bružaitė-Liseckienė, K. 2017. Lietuvių kalbos kaip svetimosios semantiškai motyvuotos daiktavardžių giminės atpažinimo ir skyrimo klausimai, Taikomoji kalbotyra, Nr. 9, www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt

Vilkienė, L. 2017. Emigrantų K1 kitoniškumo suvokimas: sociolingvistinių veiksnių įtaka, Taikomoji kalbotyra 2017 (9 ), www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt, Nr. 9.

National Research Projects

Projects Supported by The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language

The Lithuanian Language in Diaspora: Command, Usage, Attrition. Project manager M. Ramonienė. 2015–2017.

The aim of the project is to analyze language use, heritage language maintenance, language attrition, language attitudes, language and identity in Lithuanian diaspora.

Effect of Attitudes and Language Learning Motivation on Quality of Lithuanian. Project manager L. Vilkienė. 2016–2018.

The aim of the project is to analyse how well pupils from the 3rd year of the grammar shool in Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian schools in Vilnius can use Lithuanian as well as if and how it depends on their linguistic attitudes and motivation to learn Lithuanian.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
Institute of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
University of Helsinki (Finland)
University of Siena (Italy)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. M. Ramonienė –

member of the State Commision of the Lithuanian Language;
member of the Subcommission for Proper names of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language, http://www.vlkk.lt/struktura-ir-kontaktai/komisija/pakomises;
member and chairperson of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics, www.litaka.lt;
editorial board member of the research journal Taikomoji kalbotyra, http://taikomojikalbotyra.lt/en.

Assoc. Prof. L. Vilkienė, Dr. Gudavičienė, Dr. I. Hilbig, Dr. K. Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, R. Bingelienė, E. Petrašiūnienė, A. Valančiauskienė, E. Vaivadaitė-Kaidi, V. Kazlauskienė –

members of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association, www.litaka.lt.

DIGITAL PHILOLOGY CENTRE

(till September 2017 )

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius

Tel.: 268 7204

E. mail:

Head - Dr. Mindaugas Strockis

STAFF

Research fellow: Dr. M. Strockis.
Lecturers: Dr. E. Švageris, Dr. M. Smetona.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Computer-assisted lexicography
Digitisation of heritage texts
Electronic textual corpora
Experimental phonetics
Information technologies in teaching ancient and modern languages

National Research Projects

Projects and Programmes Supported by the Research Council of Lithuania

Grant No. P-MIP-17-329: Thesaurus of Lithuanian Lexicography on the Web (Historical Morphological) (Istorinis morfologinis lietuvių leksikografijos tezauras internete. Dr. M. Strockis (editor-in-chief), Dr. E. Švageris (researcher), Dr. M. Smetona (researcher). 2017–2019.

Main publications:

Smetona, M. Litewski obraz EUROPY w świetle danych ankietowych. Nazwy wartości w językach europejskich. Raport z badań empirycznych. (An article in a non-periodical peer-reviewed publication.) Przemyśl (Poland).

Smetona, M. Litewski obraz PRACY w świetle danych ankietowych. Nazwy wartości w językach europejskich. Raport z badań empirycznych. (An article in a non-periodical peer-reviewed publication.) Przemyśl (Poland).

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Dr. M. Strockis –

member of the State Commission for the Lithuanian Language;
member of the Research Council of the Lithuanian Language Institute;
member of the Lithuanian Classicists’ Association;
member of the Vilnius University Central Elections Committee.

INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7266, fax. 268 7265
E-mail:

Director – Prof. Dr. Roma Kriaučiūnienė

STAFF

81 teachers (22 holding research degree), 4 doctoral students.
Department of English for Social Sciences and Humanities
Department of English for Physical and Biomedical Sciences
Department of German Language
Departament of Romance Languages

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS

Process of Teaching and Learning Modern Languages: Competences, Methodologies, Tendencies:
Research in Structural and Functional Peculiarities of Germanic, Romance, Slavonic and Lithuanian Languages
Research in Germanic, Romance and Slavonic Literatures and Cultures
Language Teaching as a Prerequisite of the Development of Professional Competences
Translation Theory and Practice

MAIN SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2017

The monograph by Prof. Dr. Danguole Melnikiene L’onomatopée ou le monstre hybride published in Paris at the famous Éditions Hermann Publishing House won Vilnius university award for the best publication in the field of Humanities

Lecturer of the department of English for Biomedical Sciences Lina Inčiūraitė –Noreikienė defended PhD thesis The morphemic structure and formation of nouns and adjectives with (neo)classical elements in modern Lithuanian

A classical work of Lithuanian poetry Antanas Baranauskas La floresta de Anykščiai or Anykščių šilelis translated into Spanish by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Carmen Caro Dugo was published by Rinacimiento Publishing House.

Beatričė Strimaitienė was awarded Ordine della Stella d’Italia by the Italian Embassy for the work done in promoting Italian culture in Lithuania.

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS ORGANIZED IN 2017

7th international conference Linguistic, Educational and Intercultural Research, organised by the Institute of Foreign Languages (in collboration with Faculty of Humanities of the University of Cagliari (Italy)
Round table discussion Present, past and Future of Media Linguistics
Seminar The Limits of Language and Appropriation of the World by Boris Vejdovsky from Universityof Lausanne, Switzerland
Seminar and round table discussion: Language Policy in Tertiary Education: Aims, Needs and Benefits
Seminar Google Documents as a Tool to Create New Learning Environments
Seminar Prosody in Corpus Linguistics by Dr. Michael Pace-Sigge from East Finland University

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7271
E-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aušra Janulienė

STAFF

Professor: Dr. J. Korostenskienė.
Associate professors: Dr. L. Arcimavicienė, Dr. A. Janulienė, Dr. L. Bikelienė.
Lecturers: Dr. O. Medvedeva, Dr. A. Riley (until 31.08.31), R. Bačiulienė, V. Bitinaitė (until 31.08.31), V. Eimulienė, V. Gricius, V. Jonaitienė, J. Kirejeva, A. Kuokštienė, L. Marčiulionytė, R. Montvilienė, B. Palovienė, G. Pleikienė, D. Snapkauskaitė, V. Stankūnienė (until 31.08.31), R. Valiukienė, L. Vaškelienė.
Doctoral student: S. Kontrimienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cognitive linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Contrastive syntax and semantics
Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP): academic English, English for professional purposes
Teacher training
Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
Translation

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by University Budget

Research in Structural and Functional Peculiarities of Germanic, Romance, Slavonic and Lithuanian Languages. Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Janulienė. 2015–2020.

The research in 2017 was focused on generative syntax, the aspectual projection in Russian and Lithuanian, the interchange in the layout of the reflexive/ reciprocal marker and the verb in prefixed and prefixless Lithuanian verbs. The academic staff of the Department also analysed issues of Legal English, namely, the use of phrasal verbs in the textof the Treaty of Lisbon. Lithuanian students writing in English, the use of then have been investigated. The data for the study were extracted from three Lithuanian sub-corpora of learner English. Associate professor Dr. L.Bikeliene has been involved in the compilation of the Lithuanian part of The Corpus of Academic Learner English (CALE).

The research in the field of cognitive linguistics included the analysis of "self" and "other" metaphors as the strategy of persuasion in populism discourse. The role of migration metaphors and their ideological representation based on the dichotomy of ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ in contributing to the myth creation in the US and EU mainstream online media on the topic of 2015 EU migration was also discussed.

Main publications:

Arcimavičienė, L. 2017. A. Musolff. Political metaphor analysis: discourse and scenarios : [book review]. Language and cognition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, first on line. p. 1–7 ; DOI: 10.1017/langcog.

Korostenskiene, J. 2017. On binding, lexical and superlexical prefixes, and SI in the Baltic verb. Canadian journal of linguistics. Ottawa : Canadian Linguistic Association, vol. 62, no 3. p. 449–501.

Bikelienė, L. 2017. The Use of then in Lithuanian Learners’ English. In Linguistic, Educational and Intercultural Research 2017 (LEIC Research 2017). Abstracts. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, p. 34.

Translation Theory and Practice

The academic staff of the Department have been actively engaged in translating Vilnius university scholars’ research articles, BA and MA self- assessment reports, documents and other different genres of writing, literary translation included. The book of English-Lithuanian proverbs Live and Learn was selected to represent Lithuania at the London Book Fair in March 2017 and International Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2017.

Main publications:

Chris Anderson. TED TALKS: Viešasis kalbėjimas. Praktinis vadovas. Tyto alba, 2017. Translation from English by R. Montvilienė.

Holly Bourne. Manifestas kaip būti įdomiai. Tyto alba, 2017.

Translation from English by R. Montvilienė.

Iliustruotas žodynas Lietuvių-anglų patarlės. Kol gyveni, tol ir mokaisi. Live and Learn. 2017. Sudarė R. Bačiulienė. Vilnius: Pamėginčius, 128 p.

Iliustruotas žodynas Lietuvių-rusų patarlės. Kol gyveni, tol ir mokaisi. Век живи, век учись, Vilnius: Pamėginčius, 2017, 128 p. Comp. by R. Bačiulienė.

Language Teaching as a Prerequisite of the Development of Professional Competencies. Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Janulienė. 2015–2020.

The teaching staff of the Department analyse the developmental issues of professional and general competences, apply research results to the teaching practice. This research trend also encompasses the Department teachers’ insights into foreign language teaching methods, learners’ assessment and self-assessment, testing, innovative approaches and new technologies, psychological-pedagogical teaching-learning aspects. The academic staff are presenting the results of their research in in-service teacher training seminars. Another research issue the academic staff is focusing on is CLIL and ESP- learning and teaching English for specific purposes. Lecturer R.Valiukienė together with the subject (International Politics) professors is working on the development of CLIL module International Politics for the 3rd year students of Vilnius University Institute of International Relations.

Main publications:

Valiukienė, R. 2017. How complex is CLIL vocabulary in the eyes of a subject teacher? XVI International Conference Proceedings. The Power of Knowledge, Agia Triada, Greece.

Medvedeva, O., Uralova, L. 2017. On Specific Expertise in ESP: Can- do and Should- do Framework. In ICT for Language Learning, conference proceedings, ed. 10, published by Libreriauniversitaria.it, https://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL/conferenceproceedings.php

Marčiulionytė, L. 2017. Mixed –ability teaching at university level. In Linguistic, Educational and Intercultural Research 2017 (LEIC Research 2017). Abstracts. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. p. 72.

International Research Projects

Research project: Lexico-Grammatical Variation in Advanced Learner Varieties (funded by the Central Research Development Fund of the University of Bremen, Germany, one of eleven “Universities of Excellence” in Germany that compete internationally in top-level research). Assoc. Prof. Dr. L. Bikelienė.

International Project: Lithuanian-English Proverbs Live and Learn (Project partners: University of West of England, St Chad’s Patchway Primary School, Bristol, Filton Avenue Junior School, Bristol, The Park Primary School, Bristol, Žalioji school, Vilnius district, Skirgiškių village, Vilnius Valdorf school). Lect. R. Bačiulienė.

International Project: Lithuanian-Russian Proverbs Live and Learn. Век живи, век учись (Project partners: Zarasai district. Dusetos Art school, Vilnius Sofija Kovalevskaja progymnasium, Vilnius Vasilij Kačialov gymnasium, Vilnius Šilo special shcool, Lithuanian Educational Centre for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Vilnius Valdorf School). Lect. R. Bačiulienė.

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Janulienė –

member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
member of the Association of Applied Linguistics in Lithuania;
member of the English Speaking Union;
member of the journal VERBUM editorial board.

Prof. Dr. J. Korostenskienė –

member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
member of ISFLA (International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association);
member of DGKL / GCLA (German Cognitive Linguistics Association).

Assoc. Prof. Dr. L. Bikelienė –

member of LITAKA (Association of Applied Linguistics);
member of Learner Corpus Association (Université catholique de Louvain Centre for English Corpus Linguistics).

Dr. O. Medvedeva –

scientific committee member of the annual conference ICT for Language Learning, http://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL/scientific.php;

member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA).

Dr. A. Riley –

member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA).

Lect. B. Palovienė –

member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
President of the English Speaking Union, Lithuania;
member of ILNA (International Local Network Association).

Lect. V. Jonaitienė –

member of LAKMA;
member of US-LT association ALUMNI.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FOR PHYSICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius

Tel. 268 7268

E-mail:

Head –Prof. Dr. Roma Kriaučiūnienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr. R. Kriaučiūnienė, Dr. V. Liubinienė (part-time).
Associate professors: Dr. L. Chodzkienė, Dr. Z. Mažuolienė (until 31.08.2017), Dr. S. Postič.
Lecturers: Dr. D. Costello, Dr. L. Inčiūraitė-Noreikienė, A. Dapšienė, L. Giniūnienė, D. Gornatkevičienė, I. Gelžinytė, M. Ginaitytė, D. Janavičienė, A. Jankūnienė, O. Kudirkienė, A.Ledas (since 01.09.2017) L. Norvilienė, D. Pinkevičienė, A. Pranculienė, I. Rozgienė, H. Shipman, R. Sirvydė, I. Stasiūnaitė, A. Statkevičienė, D. Straižytė, A. Trečiokaitė, D. Valūnas, L. Zavadskienė, E. Židonienė.
Assistants: I. Snukiškienė, V.Vaskelaitė.
Doctoral students: D. Pinkevičienė, I. Stasiūnaitė, L. Zavadskienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Applied linguistics
Morphology
Semantics
Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP): academic English, English for professional purposes
Development of students’ linguistic and intercultural competences
Intercultural Communication
Development of New Generation of students
Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
Foreign language assessment and self-assessment

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by University Budget

Research in Structural and Functional Peculiarities of Germanic, Romance, Slavonic and Lithuanian Languages. Prof. Dr. R. Kriaučiūnienė. 2015–2020.

One of the research trends of the Department is the analysis of structural and functional characteristics of the Germanic and Lithuanian languages. Morphemic structure and formation of nominal words with neoclassical elements in the contemporary Lithuanian by the application of synchronic linguistic analysis has been investigated, paying special attention to directly and indirectly borrowed verbal derivational affixes in Lithuanian. This year the research has been expanded to loan adjective formations and adjective borrowings in the Baltic, Slavic, and Germanic languages, as well as the study of lexical expansion of the current English lexicon by novel lexical items.

Main publications:

Inčiūraitė-Noreikienė, L. 2017. The morphemic structure and formation of nouns and adjectives with (neo)classical elements in modern Lithuanian: summary of doctoral dissertation : humanities, philology (04 H). Vilnius University, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. Vilnius.

Kriaučiūnienė, R., Šimkūnaitė, G. 2017. On the Usage of Adjectives in Travel Blogs. In Linguistic, Educational and Intercultural Research 2017 (LEIC Research 2017). Abstracts. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. p. 66.

Poštič, S., Jankūnaitė, I, 2017. Russian Syntactic Calques in Lithuanian. Lingvistika. Lingvokulturologija. Oles Honchar DniproNational University, vol. 11, p.103–124. http://en.calameo.com/read/00505681245fc71962641

Research in Germanic, Romance and Slavonic Literatures and Cultures. Prof. Dr. R. Kriaučiūnienė. 2015–2020.

The traditions of literatures and cultures, and their relationship with the Lithuanian language and culture have been analysed. The research encompasses literary, stylistic and gender studines. This year’s research included the analysis of influence of Orthodox Christian motifs on the the philosopher Bakhtin’s oeuvre. Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism has been compared to the ideas of perichoresis, apophatic approach to theology and incarnation specific to the Orthodox Christian tradition.

Main publications:

Poštić, S. 2017. Bahtini pravoslavna hrišćanska tradicija (Bakhtin and the Orthodox Christian Tradition). Zbornik Maticesrpskezadruštvene nauke, p. 35–52.

Costello, D. 2017. Everybody loves an idiot: the demasculinization of the father in American sitcoms. In Linguistic, Educational and Intercultural Research 2017 (LEIC Research 2017). Abstracts. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. p. 40.

Language Teaching as a Prerequisite of the Development of Professional Competences. Prof. Dr. R. Kriaučiūnienė. 2015–2020.

The research focused on developmental issues of functional, professional and general competences and application of the research results to the teaching practice. It also encompasses the insights into the development of intercultural competence, foreign language teaching methods and Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) issues, learners’ assessment and self-assessment, foreign language acquisition and psychological-pedagogical teaching-learning aspects.

Main publications:

Kriaučiūnienė, R., Mažuolienė, Z. 2017. Developing Reading Skills of the New Generation Students. Kalbų studijos/Studies about languages. Kaunas, 2017, Nr. 30, p. 105–113.

Kriaučiūnienė, R. 2017. The Right Book to Help our Ailing Society to Recover (Book review). Ethics in Progress, vol. , No. 1. p.5–20.

Postič, S. 2017. The role of watching American cartoons in learning English.

Towards research-based education : an edited collection of research studies. Compiled by Daiva Jakavonytė-Staškuvienė, Emilija Sakadolskienė. Vilnius: Lietuvos edukologijos universiteto leidykla, p. 438–448.

EU Funded Projects

Nordplus Horizontal project NPHZ-2013/10022: Developing the Language Awareness Approach in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DELA-NOBA), coordinated by RoskildeUniversity (Denmark). The information about the project is available at: http://rucforsk.ruc.dk/site/en/projects/developing-the-language-awareness--eveil-aux-langues-approach-in-the-nordic-and-baltic-countries-nordplus-horizontal-project(58cc0b77-84a8-4b26-b2ab-7db9df2cedb2).html . Assoc. Prof. Dr. L. Chodzkienė.

Erasmus+ Programme Capacity‐Building in Higher Education (CBHE) project Fostering Competencies Development in Belarusian Higher Education (FOSTERC) (574087‐EPP‐1‐2016‐1‐ES‐EPPKA2‐CBHE‐SP, 2016-2019) coordinated by Polytechnic University of Valencia. Assoc. Prof. Dr. L. Chodzkienė (expert).

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Z. Mažuolienė –

member of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. L. Chodzkienė –

member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA);
member of the Lithuanian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (LAKMA);
editorial board member of the Scientific Committee of Wroclaw University, Poland;
member of the scientific committee of annual international conferences END (Education and New Developments), http://end-educationconference.org/scientific-committee/.

Prof. Dr. R. Kriaučiūnienė –

board member of the European Language Council (since 2017), http://www.celelc.org/;
advisory board member of Cambridge Scholars Publishing since 2017,
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/t/AppliedLinguisticsAdvisory;
President of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA);
editorial board member of the Scientific Committee of Wroclaw University, Poland;
chair of the scientific and organising committee of the 7^th international conference Linguistic, Educational and Intercultural Research 2017 (LEIC Research 2017) organized by the IFL, Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University and Faculty of Humanities of the University of Cagliary held on 12–13 October, 2017;
co-organiser of the international conference Moral Competence: a Brand New Research Topic in Cognitive Psychology, Ethics and Law organized by Institute of Philosophy and Institute of Polish Philology (AMU Poznan, Poland), co-navigated by University of Konstanz (Germany), Vilnius University and Jagiellonian University of Krakow (Poland), 29–30 September, 2017.

Lect. D. Pinkevičienė –

member of LITAKA (Association of Applied Linguistics);
member of the Lithuanian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.

Lect. L. Zavadskienė –

member of the Lithuanian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (LAKMA);
member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA);
member of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL).

DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN LANGUAGE

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7271
E-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dalia Bukauskaitė (until 10.06.2017)

STAFF

Associate professors: Dr. V. Banionytė, Dr. D. Bukauskaitė (until 10.06.2017), Dr. D. Jarmalavičius, Dr. V. J. Pukevičiūtė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Comparative Linguistics
Syntax
Morphology
History of Linguistics
German for Specific Purposes
German Literature of 19–20 c.c.
Foreign language teaching methodology
Development of learning to learn competence
Research methodology
Terminology translation problems

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by University Budget

Research in Structural and Functional Peculiarities of the Germanic, Romance, Slavonic and Lithuanian Languages. Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Jarmalavičius. 2015–2020.

The current research includes analysis of the German nominal compounds in the handwritten Baltic bilingual dictionaries from the 17th–18th centuries with the following problematic aspects identified: on the one hand, the lack of precise terminology which needs to be corrected in the synchronic theory of word-formation, on the other hand, difficulties in the differentiation of the word-formation patterns. In the scientific literature terminology used for the analogous examples of word-formation could be defined as superfluous.

Main publications:

Jarmalavičius, D. 2017. Dėl žodžių darybos teorijoje vartojamų terminų ir darybinių elementų klasifikacijos. Acta linguistica Lithuanica. Vilnius: Lietuvių kalbos instituto leidykla, vol. 76, p. 75–88.

Jarmalavičius, D., Straižytė, D. 2017. Nominal Word Formation in Old English. Linguistic, Educational and Intercultural Research 2017 (LEIC Research 2017). Abstracts. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, p. 57.

Language Teaching as a Prerequisite of the Development of Professional Competencies. Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. J. Pukevičiūtė.

The research focused on the development of students’ competences of planning their independent learning process - learning how to learn. Importance of the students’ ability and readiness to effectively plan their learning in the context of the development of learning to learn skills was investigated and the competence of students to plan the learning itself measured. The use of the closed tasks for reading assessment in teaching foreign languages for specific purposes at university leve lwas analysed.

Main publications:

Pukevičiūtė, V. J., Antanėlienė. 2017. M. Pupils’ approach to teachers’ role as motivating factor in foreign language classes. CEJSSH, vol. 13, Nr. 36, p. 101-111.

Problemy wczesnej edukacji (Issues in early education). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2017, Rok 13, no 1, p. 101–111.

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. D. Bukauskaitė –

member of International Johannes Bobrowsky’s Association.

DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7271
E-mail:

Head – Prof. Dr. Danguolė Melnikienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr. D. Balšaitytė, Dr. D. Melnikienė.
Associate professors: Dr. C. Caro Dugo, Dr. A. Belovodskaja, Dr. L. Garbul, Dr. V. Makarova, Dr. D. Mickūnaitytė (part-time).
Lecturers: S. Kosova, Dr. A. Kučinskienė, A. Rascon Caballero, R.Tamošaitienė, J. Gonsales Krus, L. Pavan, N. Petrauskienė, I. Subačienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Lexicography
Lexicology
Content integrated language learning (CLIL)
Cognitive Linguistics
Inter-Slavonic language contacts
Russian Phonetics and Phonology
Translation studies
Literary studies

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2017

Projects Supported by University Budget

Research of the Structures (grammatical, lexical, semantic and stylistic peculiarities) of the Romance, Slavic and Lithuanian Languages, their Integration into the Teaching Process and Lexicographic Practice. Prof. Dr. D. Melnikienė.

Research in Germanic, Romance and Slavonic Literatures and Cultures. Prof. Dr. D. Melnikienė. 2015–2020.

Research included analysis of some aspects of bilingual lexicology, such as French and Lithuanian onomatopoeiae, which in a way imitate the sounds of the surrounding world. Various aspects of this phenomenon have been analysed, those connected not only with lexicology, lexicography, but language philosophy and search of a proto-language as well.

Another area of the research of the Department is media linguistics. The recent studies focus on the rhetorical strategies (by Peter Ibarra and John Kitsuse) that allowed the authors of the mediatexts to introduce different types of a language game, in which the actions are interpreted for the readers into legible expressions.

Main publications:

Melnikienė, D. 2017. Le dictionnaire de l’Académie française: Langue, littérature, société / Sous la direction de Gabriel De Broglie, Hélène Carrere D’Encausse, Giovanni Dotoli et Mario Selvaggio. Paris: Hermann éditeurs, 2017, p. 149–165.

Макарова В. 2017. Медиаобраз Евросоюза (на материале медиатекстов о Евросоюзе и Украине 2014 г.) Perswazja językowa w różnych dyskursach (Речевое воздействе в разных дискурсах), vol. 1. Sładkiewicz Żanna, Klimkiewicz Aleksandr (eds), p. 65–78.

Макарова В. 2017. Риторические стратегии в медиадискурсах России и Литвы (на материале текстов об антироссийских санкциях). Магия ИННО: новые измерения в лингвистике и лингво-дидактике : сб. науч. трудов. В 2 т. Т. 1. Отв. ред. Д. Н. Новиков, p. 278–283.

Research in Germanic, Romance and Slavonic Literatures and Cultures.

The research field has been represented by the analysis of cultural aspects of the novel “Sangre y arena” (Blood and sand) by the Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928), Due to a diversity of historical circumstances, Spanish literature found its way to the Baltic countries very gradually. However, the works of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez were widely translated in Russia and the three Baltic republics. This study analyses to what extent the cultural aspects of the novel that is so full of cultural references and exerted such attraction for the distant Baltic lands and Russia, have been rendered in two Lithuanian translations.

Main publications:

Caro Dugo, C. 2017. El mundo de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez en lituano.

La literatura española en Europa. 1850–1914 / Ana María Freire López (coord.), Ana Isabel Ballesteros Dorado (coord.). Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 2017. p. 97–109.

Translation Theory and Practice

The academic staff of the Department have been active in the area of translation from/into Spanish, French or Russian. Associate professor Dr. Carmen Caro Dugo is an acknowledged specialist in the field of translation theory and practice. A classical work of Lithuanian poetry La floresta de Anykščiai or Anykščių šilelis translated into Spanish by Carmen Caro Dugo was published by Rinacimiento Publishing House in 2017.

Main publication:

Antanas Baranauskas. La floresta de Anyksciai. Translation from Lithuanian by Carmen Caro Dugo. Editorial Renacimiento, 2017.

Project: A New Version of the Lithuanian-French Dictionary (The project is supported by the French Embassy and Institute of the Lithuanian Language). Prof. Dr. D. Melnikienė (Head of the team).

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. D. Melnikienė –

editor-in-chief of the journal Verbum;
editorial board member of the international journal Les Cahiers du dictionnaire (France);
editorial board member of the international journal Skene (Italy);
member of the international association Réseau Lexicologie, Terminologie, Traduction;
editorial board member of the Studi di letteratura francese (Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki Firenze/ Italy).

Prof. Dr. D. Balšaitytė –

editorial board member of the philological periodical Respectus philologicus;
editorial board member of the journal Verbum;
international editorial board member of the journal Социо- и психолингвистические исследования (Russia).

Assoc. Prof. Dr. C. C. Dugo –

editorial board member of the journal Verbum;
member of the Translators’ Union, Lithuania;
member of International Association of Teachers of Spanish.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Makarova –

editor of the philological periodical Respectus philologicus;
editor of the journal Verbum (Lithuania).

Lect. J. G. Cruz –

member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA).

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
University of Bremen (Germany)
University of Bari (Italy)
Belarus State University (Belorussia)
Cagliari University (Italy)
Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia)