Faculty of Philology

Faculty of Philology

Sukurta: 13 June 2020

flf5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel.: 268 7205, 268 7206
E-mail:

Dean – Prof. Inesa Šeškauskienė

 

 

 

STAFF

291 teachers (incl. 146 holding research degree), 11 research fellows (incl. 9 holding research degree), 40 doctoral students.

INSTITUTES AND DEPARTMENTS OF THE FACULTY

INSTITUTE OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Department of Lithuanian Language
Department of Lithuanian Studies
Centre for Multilingual Studies

INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH, ROMANCE AND CLASSICAL STUDIES
Department of English Philology
Department of Classical Philology
Department of French Philology
Department of Italian Linguistics and Literature

INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Department of Research in Languages for Specific Purposes
Department of Romance Linguistics
Department of Foreign Language Teaching and Research
Media Linguistics Centre

INSTITUTE FOR THE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF THE BALTIC
Department of Baltic Linguistics
Department of German Philology
Department of Russian Philology
Centre for General Linguistics
Centre for Polish Studies
Centre for Scandinavian Studies

INSTITUTE FOR LITERARY, CULTURAL AND TRANSLATION STUDIES
Department of Lithuanian Literature
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies
J. Greimas Centre for Semiotics and Literary Theory
Research Group for Studies in Comparative Literature

RESEARCH AREAS

Lithuanian Studies: Philological, Cultural and Interdisciplinary Aspects. Research and Development
Multilingual Discourses: Linguistics, Literature, Culture

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED IN 2019

Veronika Girininkaitė. Interaction of Languages and Cultures in the Idiolect of a Multilingual: A Case Study of the Diary (1904‒1910) by Vytautas Civinskis (Witold Cywiński).
Ernesta Kazakėnaitė. Connections between fragments of the 16th-17th century Lutheran Bible in Latvian and Glück’s translation of the Bible into Latvian (1685–1694).
Indrė Makauskaitė. Semantic Structure of Lithuanian Temporal Adverbials.

MAIN CONFERENCES ORGANISED IN 2019

International conferences:

Trans(n)azioni: Roads, meetings, stories of the Italian language, literature and culture. Warsaw–Vilnius, April 24–27, 2019, http://www.filologiaitaliana.flf.vu.lt/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/PROGRAMMA_LT.pdf

Osip Mandelstam: Poetics, Translations, Reception. September 19–20, 2019,
https://www.flf.vu.lt/institutai/bkki/konferencijos?id=3775

Fifth international conference of Applied Linguistics Languages and People: Communication in a Multilingual World. September 26–28, 2019, http://www.taikomojikalbotyra.flf.vu.lt/en/

26th international conference of Jonas Jablonskis Variation across Languages and their Varieties. September 27–28, 2019.

International conference dedicated to the 140th anniversary of Kazimieras Būga Issues of Baltic linguistics: Historical, typological and areal topics, September 26–28, 2019, Birštonas, https://www.flf.vu.lt/institutai/bkki/konferencijos?id=3777

“Grammar” of Meletius Smotrytsky in the linguistic context of Europe of the XVI–XVIII centuries. September 30–October 1, 2019 (co-organised with the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Slavic Book Literature of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences), https://www.flf.vu.lt/institutai/bkki/konferencijos?id=3818

Research and Teaching of Set Phrases: Idioms, Collocations and Others. In memoriam Saulius Lapinskas (1954–2014), October 11–12, 2019,
https://www.flf.vu.lt/institutai/bkki/struktura/vfk/91-lt/struktura/institutai/bkki/vfk/3208-feste-wortverbindungen-in-forschung-und-lehre#programm.

With the signs of the Eagle and Vytis. Lithuania's and Poland's research and cultural relationships in the history of Vilnius University. November 11–22, 2019, http://www.erelioirvycio.flf.vu.lt/

National conferences:

Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas ir Bronius Krivickas: likiminiai kartos pasirinkimai [Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas and Bronius Krivickas: The Choices and Destinies of the Generation] (together with the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vytautas Magnus University).

Translation Ethics and Data Protection in the Age of Data, October 3, 2019 (together with DGT Department of the Lithuanian Language).

International workshops and seminars:

International seminar Values in Lithuanian and Polish Worldview. July 4–7, 2019: http://www.kulturinelingvistika.flf.vu.lt/pl/dom.php

The 16th international Salos Summer School of Linguistics (Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Sexta Decima). Salos Manor (Rokiškis reagon), July 28–August 3, 2019, http://www.academiasalensis.org/en/

International workshop New Explorations into the Baltic Verb. September 24–25, 2019, https://www.flf.vu.lt/institutai/bkki/renginiai-ir-seminarai/3812-kurybines-dirbtuves-new-explorations-into-the-baltic-verb

International Seminar Making Old Lithuanian Texts Usable for Research, November 28–29, 2019, https://www.flf.vu.lt/institutai/bkki/konferencijos?id=3941

MOST IMPORTANT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS RECEIVED FOR R&D ACTIVITIES

  • Dr. Gina Kavaliūnaitė-Holvoet: Rector’s Award for University Scholars, December 2019.
  • Assoc. Prof. Miguel M. Villanueva Svensson – Rector’s Award for the best research publication in the humanities and social sciences, June 2019.
  • Assoc. Prof. Irena Fedorovič, Assoc. Prof. Viktorija Ušinskienė, Assist. Dr. Teresa Dalecka and Assist. Dr. Regina Jakubėnas were awarded with the Gold Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland (Złoty Krzyż Zasługi Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) by the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, November 2019.
  • Assoc. Prof. Dalia Čiočytė received a literary award for the best article in the literary almanach “Varpai”, May 2, 2019.
  • Lect. Rasa Bačiulienė received the Rector’s Letter of Appreciation (June 27, 2019) for the supervision of an international project “Live and Learn”, nominated for “International Excellence Awards 2019” in the category of Educational Learning Resources.

 

INSTITUTE OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

5 Universiteto, LT–01513 Vilnius
E-mail:

Director – Prof. Dr. Meilutė Ramonienė

CENTRE FOR MULTILINGUAL STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
E-mail:

Head – Prof. Dr. Inesa Šeškauskienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr. Inesa Šeškauskienė (part-time).
Associate professors: Dr. Jurga Cibulskienė, Dr. Rita Juknevičienė, Dr. Kinga Geben, Dr. Eglė Petronienė (part-time), Dr. Birutė Ryvitytė.
Assistant professors: Dr Vitalija Kazlauskienė, Dr Miroslav Stasilo, Dr Laura Vilkaitė-Lozdienė.
Lecturers: Aivaras Liutkauskas (part-time), Diana Sroda, Modestas Talačka (part-time).
Doctoral student: Ieva Stasiūnaitė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Applied linguistics
Cognitive linguistics: metaphor, space, humour
Semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis
Contrastive linguistics
Language for specific purposes (academic, legal)
Sociolinguistics
Learner language
Vocabulary and phraseology
Language teaching

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Lexicon and Discourse: Semantics, Idiomaticity, Vocabulary. Prof. Inesa Šeškauskienė. 2019–2022. Dr. Jurga Cibulskienė, Dr. Rita Juknevičienė, Dr. Vitalija Kazlauskienė, Dr. Birutė Ryvitytė, D. Laura Vilkaitė-Lozdienė.

The Project aims at investigating numerous lexical aspects of languages: the meaning of a word and a phrase, phraseology and collocations, lexicographic problems, lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects of different discourses (legal, academic, public and mass media, humour, learner, etc.) in one language or across several languages.
The task for 2019 focused on some cognitive aspects of language study: 1) identifying the key features of metaphoricity in different types of discourse (law, public etc.); 2) adapting a well-known MIPVU methodology for the Lithuanian data; 3) studying the discourse of humour in the cognitive linguistic framework. Moreover, in 2019 the project also focused on corpus-based methodologies and their application in the analysis of lexical bundles and phraseology.

Main publications:

Cibulskienė, J. Communicating attitudes through metaphor: A case study of euro adoption. Cognitive Linguistic Studies. 2019, 6(1): 129–156. https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00033.cib

Juknevičienė, R. and Viluckas, P. Lexical Features of football reports: computer- vs human-mediated language. Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports. Texts, Media, Modalities, eds. Marcus Calies and Magnus Levin. London: Bloomsbury. 2019: 63–82.

Masiulionytė, V., Ryvitytė, B., Šeškauskienė, I. The euro and Lithuania(ns) in their own eyes: the Russian past and the European future in online comments. Informalization and Hybridization of Speech Practices. In the series Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe, ed. by Amei Koll-Stobbe. 2019: 10: 151–180.

Research into the Society, Language and Culture in Northern and Middle Europe. Assoc. Prof. Ieva Steponavičiūtė–Aleksiejūnienė. 2019–2022. Dr. Kinga Geben is involved in the Project.

Main publication:

Fedorovič, I., Geben, K. Konotacje Wilna w polskiej wersji książki Algisa Kalėdy „W poszukiwaniu poetyckiej tożsamości Wilna“. Bibliotekarz Podlaski. 2019, 2: 119–140. http://bibliotekarzpodlaski.ksiaznicapodlaska.pl

Language Usage, Language Learning and Teaching. Prof. Meilutė Ramonienė. 2019–2022. Dr. Kinga Geben and Dr. Miroslaw Stasilo are involved in the Project.

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

Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (Lithuania)
Department of Monitoring and Assessment of the National Education Agency (Lithuania) (previously, National Examination Centre)
Department of British and North American Studies, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald (Germany)
Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw (Poland)
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Hamar (Norway)
European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz (Austria)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jurga Cibulskienė –

  • board member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt;
  • member of the Lithuanian Association of EFL Teachers (LAKMA), http://www.lakmaonline.lt/;
  • member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA), https://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/en;
  • member of the Association of Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM), http://www.raam.org.uk/Home.html;
  • editorial board member of the electronic journal Taikomoji kalbotyra, www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt;
  • programme committee member of the International Applied Linguistics Conference Language and people: communication in multilingual world held in Vilnius University September 26–28, 2019;
  • chair of the group for the preparation of MA study programme English Linguistics.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kinga Geben –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt;
  • administrator of the electronic research journal Taikomoji kalbotyra, (www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt).

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rita Juknevičienė –

  • board member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt;
  • member of Learner Corpus Association, http://www.learnercorpusassociation.org/;
  • member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), http://www.societaslinguistica.eu;
  • member of the Formulaic Language Research Network (FLaRN), http://flarn.org.uk/;
  • member of the Lithuanian Association of EFL Teachers (LAKMA), http://www.lakmaonline.lt/;
  • invited lecturer within the EU project RELANG giving a series of workshops in Denmark, Albania, Spain, and Cyprus. The project is implemented by the European Centre of Modern Language in Graz, Austria, https://relang.ecml.at/;
  • invited expert at the Ministry of Education of Austria;
  • member of group for the preparation of MA study programme English Linguistics.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Vitalija Kazlauskienė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt;
  • board member of the Lithuanian Association of Teachers of French.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eglė Petronienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Birutė Ryvitytė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt;
  • member of the Lithuanian Association for Canadian Studies;
  • member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), http://www.essenglish.org, treasurer of the Lithuanian section;
  • member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), http://www.societaslinguistica.eu;
  • chair of MA study programme Language for Specific (Legal) Purposes;
  • member of group for the preparation of MA study programme English Linguistics.

Prof. Dr. Inesa Šeškauskienė –

  • editorial board member 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 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;
  • board member of Academia Salensis, http://www.academiasalensis.org;
  • member of the US–LT Alumni Association, http://usltalumni.com/;
  • member of the programme committee of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea August 21–24, 2019, University of Leipzig, Germany, http://sle2019.eu/downloads/SLE%202019%20BOOK%20OF%20ABSTRACTS.pdf;
  • expert of the database Lituanistica;
  • member of the programme committee of the International Applied Linguistics Conference Language and people: communication in multilingual world held in Vilnius University September 26–28, 2019;
  • lecturing at Jaume I University, Castillon de la Plana, Spain within Erasmus teacher exchange programme, March 31–April 6, 2019.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Laura Vilkaitė –

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

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES BROAD

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Assoc. Prof. Jurga Cibulskienė worked as member of a group of experts to draft a national regulation of study programmes in Philology by the Lithuanian Centre for Quality Assurance in Higher Education;
  • Assoc. Profs. Rita Juknevičienė, Eglė Petronienė and Birutė Ryvitytė were invited to work as experts at the Department of Monitoring and Assessment of the National Education Agency (previously, National Examination Centre at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of Lithuania);
  • Prof. Inesa Šeškauskienė worked as chair of a group of experts to draft a national regulation of study programmes in philology by the Lithuanian Centre for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Geben, K. Publikacja na temat mniejszości narodowych. Information about a collection of research articles, http://wilnoteka.lt/artykul/publikacja-na-temat-mniejszosci-narodowych;

  • Petronienė, E. worked as chair of a national English Olympiad for Secondary School Students, February 9, 2019;
  • Petronienė, E. worked as member of board of a national Public Speaking Competition (in English), LCC, Klaipėda, March 8, 2019;
  • Petronienė, E. worked as board member of a quiz in English Popular Arts in the UK and the USA in the 20th and 21st centuries (music, cinema, literature) organised for students of gymnasia in Vilnius.

DEPARTMENT OF LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7212
http://www.flf.vu.lt/

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vilma Zubaitienė

STAFF

Professors: Habil. Dr. Evalda Jakaitienė (emeritus), Dr. Vytautas Kardelis, Dr. Irena Smetonienė.
Associate professors: Dr. Gintarė Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, Dr. Antanas Smetona, Dr. Vilma Zubaitienė.
Assistants: Dr. Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Dr. Marius Smetona, Dr. Evaldas Švageris, Dr. Audrius Valotka (part-time).
Lecturers: Kęstutis Bredelis, Laimutis Laužikas.
Doctoral students: Beatričė Danisienė, Agnė Lisauskaitė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sinchronic and diachronic Lithuanian grammar
Phonetics and phonology (Standard Lithuanian and Lithuanian dialects)
Morphology, lexicology, word formation, lexicography
Semantics and syntax, terminology (Standard Lithuanian)
Rhetorics, stilistics, language of journalism, text analysis, academic discourse
Dialectology of the Lithuanian, general linguistics, cognitive linguistics, ethnolinguistics Historical Grammar of Lithuanian, history of written Lithuanian
Standard Lithuanian: attitudes and usage, methodology of teaching of the Lithuanian language

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Synchronic and Diachronic Research on Phonological, Lexical and Grammatical System of the Lithuanian Language.

The aim is to investigate the features of phonetics, lexis, semantics, grammar of Lithuanian language system, its variability, variation and interaction, the relation of Lithuanian vocabulary and grammar to usage, differences between spoken and written language.

Main publications:

Judžentytė, G., Zubaitienė, V. The lexicon of the Lithuanian language in the 17–19th centuries. The Intricacy of Languages, Francesc Feliu, Olga Fullana (ed.), John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2019, 154–174.

Lisauskaitė, A., Zubaitienė, V. Aktyvios veiklos veiksmažodžių semantika Kristijono Donelaičio „Metuose“ [The Semantics of the Verbs of Activity in the “Seasons” by Kristijonas Donelaitis]. Respectus Philologicus. 2019, 35(40): 102–120.

Smetonienė, I., Smetona, M. The understanding of the concept LANGUAGE among young people in Lithuania and Lithuanians living abroad. Acta Baltico-Slavica. 2019, 43: 105–125.

National Research Projects

Discourse Markers in Lithuanian: a Synchronic and Diachronic Study (S-MIP-17-44, 2017–2020, coordinated by Jolanta Šinkūnienė). Dr. Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė is involved in this project.

Main publication:

Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, E. Subordinating Conjunctions as Discourse Markers in Lithuanian. Corpus Pragmatics 3. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics. 2019. Springer,
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs41701-019-00060-1 .

Historical Morphological Thesaurus of Lithuanian Lexicography on the Web (P-MIP-17-329, 2017–2019, coordinated by Mindaugas Strockis). Dr. Marius Smetona is involved in this project.

The database will include the list of Lithuanian lemmas consisting about 400 thousand entries (encompassing and exceeding the biggest existing Lithuanian dictionary, known as the LKŽ); the meanings and history of the lemmas will be illustrated by eight exactly transcribed historical and contemporary dictionaries of principal importance to Lithuanian philology: the Promptuarium by K. Sirvydas (1620), the Dictionarium by K. Sirvydas (1642), those by F. W. Haack (1730), S. Daukantas (1852), S. Daukantas (1838), F. Kuršaitis (1870–1874), F. Kuršaitis (1883), and the Lithuanian dictionary known as LKŽ.

Projects Supported by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language

Mother. Bread. Earth. Dr. Irena Smetonienė. 2019–2020.

The aim of the project is to analyze the concepts MOTHER, BREAD and EARTH based on the cognitive definition method.

Research on Phrasemes in Student Writing and an Interactive Phrase Bank. Dr. Vilma 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.

Editing of the Monograph Language. Nation. State. Dr. Irena Smetonienė. 2019.

Main publication:

Smetonienė, I., Smetona, M., Rutkovska, K. (2019). Kalba. Tauta. Valstybė [Language. Nation. State], a monograph. Vilnius University Press. 2019, 292 p.

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

Institute of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (Poland)
University of Bern (Switzerland)
University of Pisa (Italy)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Dr. Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė –

Assoc. Prof. Gintarė Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė –

  • member of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (USA);
  • member of the Scandinavian Association for Language & Cognition;
  • member of the National European Language Atlas Committee (since November);
  • programme and organizing committee member of the 26th international conference of Jonas Jablonskis Linguistic Diversity in the Modern World: Language Power and Prestige; http://www.jablonskio-konferencija.flf.vu.lt/en/.

Prof. Dr. Vytautas Kardelis –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Antanas Smetona –

Prof. Dr. Irena Smetonienė –

Assoc. Prof. Vilma Zubaitienė –

  • editorial board member of the electronic journal Bendrinė kalba, http://www.bendrinekalba.lt/?English;
  • editorial board member of the electronic journal Gimtoji kalba (since December);
  • member of the association of Academia Salensis, http://academiasalensis.org/en/about-us/structure-of-as;
  • member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association, members of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association, www.litaka.lt;
  • member of Gesellschaft für Baltische Studien (Berlin);
  • member of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (USA);
  • programme committee member of the 26th international conference of Jonas Jablonskis Linguistic Diversity in the Modern World: Language Power and Prestige, http://www.jablonskio-konferencija.flf.vu.lt/en/

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, E. Functional development of the Lithuanian focus particles net ‘even’ and tik ‘only’ and clause periphery. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig, German, August 21–24, 2019.
  • Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, G. Creation of physical space by deictic expressions in Lithuanian dialects. 7th conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition, Aarhus, Denmark, May 22–24, 2019.
  • Kardelis, V., Schneider, C. Language Variation and Change in Lithuania. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, ICLaVE 10 (Fryske Akademy), Leeuwarden (Netherlands), June 25–29, 2019.

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Assoc. Prof. Gintarė Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė – expert in contest The best PhD thesis 2018.
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr Antanas Smetona – member of the Terminology Subcommittee of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language.
  • Prof. Dr Vytautas Kardelis and Assoc. Prof. Vilma Zubaitienė – experts of Lithuanian Research Counsil.
  • Prof. Dr Irena Smetonienė and Prof. Dr Vytautas Kardelis – experts of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language.
  • Assoc. Prof. Vilma Zubaitienė – member of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language, http://www.vlkk.lt/struktura-ir-kontaktai/komisija/vilma-zubaitiene-doc-dr .

CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED BY THE UNIT TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES

Laimutis Laužikas and Assoc. Prof. Antanas Smetona – experts of the Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

Popularization of the research in the media:

  • Antna Smetona, anchor of LRT Cultural Show Lithuania in our Lips.
  • Antanas Smetona, Kęstutis Bredelis. Lithuanian language in radio broadcasts.

Interviews:

Public lectures:

  • Antanas Smetona. Lingvistinė teisės aktų analizė [Linguistic analysis of legislation], April 08, 2019; Žodžių darybos tendencijos dabartinėje kalboje [Trends in word formation in Lithuanian of today?], October 25, 2019; Juridinė lingvistika [Legal Linguistics], December 07, 2019.
  • Irena Smetonienė. Retorika yra mokslas ar menas [Is rhetoric science or art], November 12, 2019.

DEPARTMENT OF LITHUANIAN STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
E-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Loreta Vilkienė

STAFF

Professor: Dr. Meilutė Ramonienė.
Associate professors: Dr. Bronė Stundžienė (part-time), Dr. Loreta Vilkienė.
Assistants: Dr. Eglė Gudavičienė, Dr. Inga Hilbig, Dr. Kristina Jakaitė-Bulbukienė.
Junior assistants: Inga Daraškienė, Eglė Vaisėtaitė, Aušra Valančiauskienė, Eglė Žurauskaitė.
Lecturers: Joana Pribušauskaitė, Virginija Stumbrienė, Ramutė Bingelienė, Elvyra Kutanovienė, Rita Migauskienė, Elvyra Petrašiūnienė, Aušra Tamošaitienė, Lina Vaškevičienė.
Doctoral students: Inga Daraškienė, Eglė Vaisėtaitė, Justina Bružaitė-Liseckienė, Justina Mandravickaitė, Eglė Žurauskaitė, Anželika Teresė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Applied linguistics
Teaching second / foreign languages
Learning Sscond / foreign Languages
Language acquisition
Language attrition
Sociolinguistics;
Stylistic
Discourse analysis
Language testing
Sign language

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

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

The project aims at analysis of language/dialect usage, language attitudes, language acquisition, language learning and teaching, language policy, language of diaspora, 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., Gudavičienė, E., Hilbig, I., Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, K., Vaisėtaitė, E., Vilkienė, L. Emigrantai: kalba ir tapatybė II. Keturi sociolingvistiniai portretai. Vilnius, Vilnius University Press. 2019.

Ramonienė, M. Regional dialects in the Lithuanian urban space: skills, practices and attitudes. In Lazdiņa S. and Heiko M. (eds). Multilingualism in the Baltic States: Societal Discourses and Contact Phenomena, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019, 123–152.

Ramonienė, M. Family and the maintenance of the heritage language: the case of Lithuanian diaspora. In Haque, S. et F. Le Lièvre (eds.) Politique Linguistique familiale /Family language policy. Enjeux dynamiques de la transmission linguistique dans un contexte migratoire. Dynamics in language transmission under a migratory context. Munich: LINCOM. 2019, 135–158.

National Research Projects

Effect of Attitudes and Language Learning Motivation on Quality of Lithuanian. Project manager - Loreta Vilkienė. 2017–2019.

The project was supported by The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. The aim of the project was to analyse how well pupils from the 3rd year of the grammar school 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 publications:

Vilkienė, L., Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, L., Bružaitė-Liseckienė, J. Lietuvių kalba Vilniaus lietuviškose, lenkiškose ir rusiškose gimnazijose: mokėjimo kokybė, kalbinės nuostatos ir motyvacija [The Lithuanian Language at the Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian Gymnasiums in Vilnius: Language Competence, Attitudes, and Motivation]. Mokslo studija. Vilnius University Press. E book. 2019, Internet access: https://www.vu.lt/leidyba/knygos/e-knygos.

Vilkienė, L. Gimtakalbių ir negimtakalbių mokinių lietuvių kalbos kokybė. [Quality of Lithuanian Language of Native and Non-native Students]. Pedagogika, 2019, 135(3): 102–121. doi: https://doi.org/10.15823/p.2019.135.6.

Contractual Research

Creation of a System for Testing Personal Key Competences (communication in the Lithuanian language). Project manager - E. Petrašiūnienė. 2019–2021.

The aim of the project is at the national level to prepare Lithuanian language proficiency test models that meet the requirements of the Lithuanian language proficiency level (according CEFR) and allow testing the person's reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. This project is a part of bigger project of National Agency for Education „Įvairiais būdais įgytų kompetencijų ir kvalifikacijų vertinimo ir pripažinimo sistemos tobulinimas“ (09.4.1-ESFA-V-734-02-0001). This project is funded by the European Social Fundation. https://www.kpmpc.lt/kpmpc/projektai/vykdomi-projektai/ivairiais-budais-igytu-kompetenciju-ir-kvalifikaciju-vertinimo-ir-pripazinimo-sistemos-tobulinimas/.

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)
National Agency for Education

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. Meilutė Ramonienė –

Assoc. Prof. Loreta Vilkienė –

Dr. Eglė Gudavičienė –

Dr. Kristina Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, Justina Bružaitė-Liseckienė –

Lina Vaškevičienė –

Inga Daraškienė, Dr Inga Hilbig, Ramutė Bingelienė, Elvyra Petrašiūnienė, Aušra Valančiauskienė, Eglė Žurauskaitė –

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Ramonienė, M. The role of mother in heritage language maintenance: the case of Lithuanian diaspora, 12th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB12), June 23–28, 2019, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
  • Mandravickaitė, J., Krilavičius, T., Ka Lok Man. Document Classification to Functional Styles (Domains of Use): Lithuanian Case. The International Conference on Recent Advancements in Computing in AI, IoT and Computer Engineering Technology (CICET 2019. October 20–23, 2019, Taipei, Taiwan, China.
  • Bružaitė-Liseckienė, J. Is L2 grammar influenced by L1 grammar? 1st International Conference on Multilingual and Multicultural Learning: Policies and Practices. University of Prague, December 14–15, 2019.
  • Hilbig, I. As if I was a half-dead or a bad mother…“ Minority mothers’ emotions facing unsuccessful early bilingualism. The international conference Multilingual Awareness and Multilingual Practices, October 28, 2019, Antwerpen.
  • Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, K. Picture of London: linguistic behavior of Lithuanian emigrants. Conference Year of Estonian: The Perspective of Applied Linguistics. Estonian Language Institute, Estonian Association for Applied Linguistics and Tallinn University, Tallinn. April 25–26, 2019.

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

Prof. Dr Meilutė Ramonienė –

  • member of the Onomastics Subcommittee of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language;
  • expert of Lithuanian Research Counsil;
  • expert of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Ramonienė, M. Four interviews on research findings: LRT (2 interviews), LiveDinnerLT, Delfi TV.
  • Gudavičienė, E. Research in the Language of Emigrants; Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, K., Linguistic Behavior of Emigrants Living in London. VI Interdisciplinary Diaspora Research Seminar April 18, 2019. Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Documentary Heritage Research Department, Lithuanian Department, Vilnius.
  • Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, K. Lithuanian language in Emigration. Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Helsinki, Finland. April 10, 2019.
  • Hilbig, I. Interview on LRT broadcast "10-12" about bilingualism of emigrants’ children. July 11, 2019, https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000073980/10-12-kokiu-kalbiniu-issukiu-patiria-emigrantu-vaikai?fbclid=IwAR1J3oD4srHDdnJr-iTCawS_S6AtLbD03HnyWCTCoCXOoGfYkhmkYYYm6sA.
  • Vilkienė, L. Influence of language attitudes and learning motivation on Lithuanian language proficiency. State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. November 7, 2019.

 

INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH, FRENCH AND CLASSICAL STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT–01513 Vilnius
E-mail:

Director – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nijolė Juchnevičienė

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. Eugenija Ulčinaitė (professor emerita), Dr. Fatima Eloeva, Dr. Vytautas Ališausas.
Associate professors: Dr. Nijolė Juchnevičienė, Dr. Mintautas Čiurinskas, Dr. Tomas Veteikis, Dr. Mindaugas Strockis.
Assistants: Dr. Jovita Dikmonienė, Dr. Dovilė Keršienė.
Junior assistant: Alius Jaskelevičius.
Lecturers: Dalia Andziulytė, Jūratė Baronienė, Dovilė Čitavičiūtė, Paulius Garbačiauskas, Antanas Keturakis, Renata Papšytė, Stasė Paškonytė, Kristina Svarevičiūtė, Irena Štikonaitė.
Doctoral students: Ana Marija Mackevič, Tomas Riklius, Gražina Lyvens, Skirmantas Knieža.
Šarūnas Šavėla - doctoral student of the Università di Bologna (Italy) and Vilnius University (joint supervision).
Post-doctoral student: Vilius Bartninkas.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Classical antiquity and its tradition (rhetoric, philosophy, historiography, problems of panhellenic and Roman identity)
Christian literature and its interrelation with classical tradition, 1st–5th centuries
Latin and Greek literature in Lithuania in the 16th–18th centuries
Reception and interpretation of classical tradition in literature and art theories

RESEACH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Classical Culture and Latin and Greek Literature of Lithuania: Tradition, Reception, Contexts. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nijolė Juchnevičienė. 2015–2020.

The main result of 2019 was the academic edition of Cicero’s Speeches against Verres with commentary, funded by the Lithuanian Council of Culture (A. Kučinskienė). Attention was paid to the rhetorical, poetical and philosophical aspects of the classical texts, the reception of Classical tradition from the Renaissance up to the contemporary literature (A. Kučinskienė, F. Eloeva, V. Bartninkas, T. Riklius). A wide range of cultural problems of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and national aspects of Christian tradition reflected and analysed by T. Veteikis, M. Čiurinskas, D. Keršienė, S. Knieža. The problems of Early Christian texts were analysed by V. Ališauskas and G. Lyvens.

Main publications:

Ališauskas, V. Transformation of the Classical genre: Quadratus and beginnings of Christian apology. Literatūra. 2019, 61(3): 42–57.

Bartninkas, V. Kas yra antikinis politinis mąstymas? [What is Ancient Political Thinking?] Problemos. 2019, 96: 48–60.

Dikmonienė, J. Anagnorisis in Aristotle’s Poetics: Problems of definition and classification. Literatūra. 2019, 61(3): 32–41.

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Historical Morphological Thesaurus of Lithuanian Lexicography on the Web (S-MIP-17-85). Mindaugas Strockis, 2017–2019.

An integrated universal database of early Lithuanian dictionaries with advanced searching abilities. The database includes eight exactly transcribed historical dictionaries of importance to Lithuanian philology: the Promptuarium by K. Sirvydas (1620), the Dictionarium by the same author (1642), those by F. W. Haack (1730), S. Daukantas (1852), S. Daukantas (1838), F. Kuršaitis (1870–1874) and F. Kuršaitis (1883). The database enables not only browsing for headwords (lemmas) and the full-text search, but also searching for words matching given morphological and prosodic criteria.

Projects Supported by Lithuanian Council of Culture.

The Edition of Cicero’s Speeches against Verres. Audronė Kučinskienė, January 03–December 31, 2019 (Humanitarinės literatūros leidyba 2019-101-009-01-02-17).

Main publication:

Prieš korupciją. Markas Tulijus Ciceronas. Kalbos prieš Gajų Verį, iš lotynų kalbos vertė, įvadinį straipsnį ir komentarus parašė, rodykles ir bibliografiją sudarė Audronė Kučinskienė. Vilnius: Societas Classica, 2019, 720 p. (Marcus Tullius Cicero. Speeches against Gaius Verres. Compiled and translated from Latin with a commentary by Audronė Kučinskienė).

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)
University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Università di Bologna (Italy)
Thesaurus linguae Latinae Committee, Munich (Germany)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. Fatima 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 Research 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. Eugenija Ulčinaitė (professor emerita) –

  • 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/.

Prof. Dr. Vytautas Ališauskas –

  • executive committee member 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 academic periodical Bažnyčios istorijos studijos;
  • member of Commission Internationale d’Histoire et d’Etudes de Christianisme (CIHEC);
  • member of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Science;
  • member of the Council of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nijolė Juchnevičienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Audronė Kučinskienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mintautas Čiurinskas –

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

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mindaugas Strockis –

Paulius Garbačiauskas –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tomas Veteikis, Dr. Jovita Dikmonienė, Dr. Dovilė Keršienė, Alius Jaskelevičius, Irena Štikonaitė, Dalia Andziulytė, Stasė Paškonytė, Jūratė Baronienė, Kristina Svarevičiūtė, Renata Papšytė, Paulius Garbačiauskas, Antanas Keturakis –

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Bartninkas, V. Response to Alberto Rigolio on the Syriac Sources for Xenocrates, Speusippus, and the Old Academy. University of Tubingen (Germany), November 1, 2019.
  • Eloeva, F. Corpora and Language Variation in Greek. The 10th International Congress on Experimental Linguistics, September 25–27, 2019, Lisbon (Portugal).
  • Eloeva, F. Translation like a cultural borrowing. International Congress Το παρόν και το μέλλον της ελληνικής λογοτεχνίας [The present and future of Greek Literature in the world]. March 8, 2019, Athens (Greece).

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Assoc. Prof. Nijolė Juchnevičienė worked as chair of a group of experts to draft a national regulation of study programmes in Classical Studies by the Lithuanian Centre for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.
  • Assoc. Prof. Audronė Kučinskienė was a member of a group of experts to draft a national regulation of study programmes in Classical Studies by the Lithuanian Centre for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.
  • Assoc. Prof. Nijolė Juchnevičienė worked as an expert in the contest The best PhD thesis 2018 and The best MA thesis 2018.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Vytautas Ališauskas. Cycle of lectures ‘Gospels and apocryphs of the New Testament’. Academia Minor (Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Science), autumn semester.
  • Vilius Bartninkas. Aristotle and his importance today? A cycle of lectures ‘Aristoteles from Acropolis’, National Museum The Palace of Grand Dukes of Lithuania, February 15, 2019.
  • Audronė Kučinskienė. Cycle of lectures on the classical Art. The School of Art History (LI Vilnius Auction), January 8–February 19, 2019.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. / fax 268 7228
E-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jolanta Šinkūnienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr. Regina Rudaitytė, Habil. Dr. Aurelija Usonienė, Dr. Almantas Samalavičius.
Associate professors: Dr. Linara Bartkuvienė, Dr. Giedrė Balčytytė-Kurtinienė, Dr. Jolanta Šinkūnienė.
Assistant professors: Dr. Davide Castiglione, Dr. Anna Ruskan, Dr. Rūta Šlapkauskaitė, Dr. Audronė Šolienė, Dr. Justina Urbonaitė, Dr. Deimantas Valančiūnas.
Junior assistant: Eimantė Liubertaitė.
Lecturers: Greta Belogurova, Jurga Kasteckienė.
Doctoral students: Justina Liauksminienė, Eimantė Liubertaitė, Laima Vincė Sruoginis, Deividas Zibalas.

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 CONDUCTED IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Germanic and Romance Literary and Cultural Texts. Prof. Dr. Regina Rudaitytė. 2010–2021.

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. Home: The Sacred and the Profane in John McGahern’s Novel That They May Face the Rising Sun. Literatūra. 2019, vol. 61(4): 77–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.15388/Litera.2019.4.6.

Rosson, G. Dickinson’s Geographic Poetics. The New Emily Dickinson Studies, ed. by Michelle Kohler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019, 168–186.

Šlapkauskaitė, R. An Arc of Itinerant Tropes: Beyond Kin and Kind in Andre Alexis's Fifteen Dogs. The Anglo-Canadian Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Interpretations, Maria and Martin Loschnigg (Eds.). 2019, 11–19. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter.

Germanic, Romance and Baltic Language Studies. Prof. Habil. Dr. Aurelija Usonienė. 2010–2021.

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 for 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:

Balčytytė-Kurtinienė, G. The music of English connected speech: how and why singing affects EFL learners’ pronunciation. Speak Out. Pron Sig. September 2019, 61: 7–17.

Guščytė, G., Šinkūnienė, J. Research article acknowledgments across disciplines: patterns of scholarly communication and tradition. ESP Today. 2019, 7(2): 182–206.

Urbonaitė, J., Šeškauskienė, I., Cibulskienė, J. Linguistic metaphor identification in Lithuanian. Metaphor identification in multiple languages: MIPVU around the world. (eds. S. Nacey, A. G. Dorst, T. Krennmayr, W. G. Reijnierse). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2019, 160–181.

Projects and Programmes Supported by the Research Council of Lithuania

Discourse Markers in Lithuanian: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study (P-MIP-17-308). Dr. Jolanta Šinkūnienė, Dr. Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Dr. Anna Ruskan, Dr. Audronė Šolienė.

Main publications:

Ruskan, A. Functional Variation of Discourse Particles in Lithuanian: A Look at Clause Peripheries. Corpus Pragmatics. 2019, 3(4): 303–325.

Šinkūnienė, J. Reformulation markers in academic discourse: A cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary study. Jezikoslovlje. 2019, 20(3): 531–553.

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). Prof. Habil. Dr. Aurelija Usonienė, Dr. Anna Ruskan, Dr. Jolanta Šinkūniene, Dr. Audronė Šolienė.

Stance and Subjectivity in Discourse: Towards an Integrated Framework for the Analysis of Epistemicity, Effectivity, Evaluation and Inter/subjectivity from a Critical Discourse Perspective. Proyectos de I+D de Generación de Conocimiento, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Dr. Anna Ruskan, Dr. Jolanta Šinkūnienė, Dr. Audronė 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)
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain)
University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
University of Zaragoza (Spain)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Giedrė Balčytytė-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. Linara 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).

Assist. Prof. Dr. Davide Castiglione –

  • member of the ‘Effects of Foregrounding’ Research Coalition;

Prof. Dr. Regina 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, http://www.le.ac.uk/engassoc/fellows.html).

Assist. Prof. Dr. Anna Ruskan –

  • member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
  • member of SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea);
  • member of IPrA (International Pragmatics Association).

Prof. Dr. Almantas Samalavičius –

  • editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Architecture and Urbanism (CA, WoS, VGTU Press);
  • editor-in-Chief of Lituanus: the Lithuanian Quarterly (Lituanus Foundation, Chicago);
  • editorial board member of Architecture Research (USA); Czas Kultury (Poland); Journal of Architectural Design and Urbanism (Indonesia); Mathematics Interdiscioplinary Research (Iran);
  • member of Architectural Humanities Research Association (UK);
  • member of Urban History Association (USA);
  • member of Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Forum (USA);
  • member of PEN International;
  • member of board of Lithuanian PEN centre;
  • charmain of the Jury for the Contest of Monument to the 500 Anniversary of Reformation in Lithuania (Ministry of Culture and Lithuanian Association of Artists);
  • member of Jury of Bronys Savukynas prize (Ministry of Culture and Lithuanian PEN), 2018;
  • advisory board member of the Penn State University Press book series Ivan Illich: 21st Century Perspectives.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jolanta Šinkūnienė –

  • member of SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea);
  • member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English);
  • member of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change (DiPVaC) Research network;
  • member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association;
  • scientific committee member of the research journal IPERSTORIA,
    http://www.iperstoria.it/joomla/redazione/comitato-scientifico ;
  • executive secretary of the linguistic research journal Kalbotyra;
  • GERAS (Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche en Anglais de Specialite) international correspondent in Lithuania;
  • management committee member, member of the steering group and group leader for Early career investigators Special interest group in COST Action CA 15137 (European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities);
  • management committee member, member of the core group in COST Action CA 15221 (Advancing effective institutional models towards cohesive teaching, learning, research and writing development);
  • representative of Lithuania in Horizon 2020 SC6 programme committee;
  • member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Committee at the Research Council of Lithuania.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Rūta 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).

Assist. Prof. Dr. Audronė Šolienė –

  • member of SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea).

Assist. Prof. Dr. Justina Urbonaitė –

  • member of International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA);
  • member of The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM);
  • member of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE);
  • member of Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association LITAKA.

Prof. Habil. Dr. Aurelija Usonienė –

Assist. Prof. Dr. Deimantas 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).

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Balčytytė-Kurtinienė, G. Non-Native English: In Search for Rhythm. 12th International conference Innovation in Language Learning. Moderator of the section Self-Efficacy. Florence, Italy. November 14–15, 2019.
  • Ruskan, A. A cross-linguistic look at the right periphery: Utterance-final adverbials in English, Spanish and Lithuanian. SLE conference, Leipzig University. August 21–24, 2019.
  • Šlapkauskaitė, R. Inaudible Mothers, Incapable Fathers, Implacable Masters: Troping the Empire in Esi Eduguyan’s Washington Black. Vancouver, Canada. June 01–03, 2019.
  • Šolienė, A. They are kind of/sort of similar: a parallel corpus-based analysis of English kind of and sort of and their Lithuanian correspondences. CL2019 International Corpus Linguistics Conference. Cardiff University, UK. July 22–26, 2019.
  • Valančiūnas, D. Haunting Memories: Sri Lankan Civil War, Mobility and Diaspora in Literature and Film, Memory Studies Association conference. Madrid, Spain. June 25–28, 2019.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Castiglione, D. Organisation of 8 public talks for the ‟Mind sharpener” series, with invited speakers.

DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, LT-01122 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7232
E-mail:

Head – Prof. Dr. Vytautas Bikulčius

STAFF

Professors: Dr. Vytautas Bikulčius, Dr. Genovaitė Dručkutė.
Associate professor: Dr. Eglė Kačkutė.
Assistant professor: Dr. Vita Valiukienė.
Lecturers: Povilas Birbilas, Olivier Francois Roger Morere, Dr. Jūratė Navakauskienė, Lina Perkauskytė, Daiva Repeikaitė-Jarmalavičienė, Inga Šerniuvienė, Estela 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 for specific purposes (FSP): academic French, French for professional purposes, second language acquisition
Language testing
History of the French language
Lexicography (terminology, FSP dictionaries)
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
Theory of the text
Intertextuality

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Germanic and Romance Literary and Cultural Texts. Prof. R. Rudaitytė. 2010–2021.

The Department carried out investigation of literary trends, genres and problems of poetics, the development of literary tradition, the relationship of literary texts with Philosophy, Aesthetics, Psychology, Sociology and other theoretical systems. The academic staff continued research in the field of the history of French and Francophone literatures and published articles on the related issues.

Main publications:

Dručkutė, G. Oscar Milosz dans le champ littéraire lituanien. Cahiers de l’Association Les Amis de Milosz, Paris. 2019, 56–58 : 369–381.

Kačkutė-Hagan, E., Cavazza, M. Portrait of a (Working) Mother. Geneve: Georg. 2019, 147 p.

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 RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. Vytautas Bikulčius –

  • member of the Lithuanian Literary Translators’ Association.

Prof. Dr. Genovaitė 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.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Bikulčius, V. Soumission de Michel Houellebecq en tant que roman décadent. International conference Langues. Sciences. Pratiques, University of Odessa. October 03–04, 2019.
  • Kačkutė-Hagan, E. Mothering through Migration. International conference Contemporary Women’s Writing: Writing / Reading for Change. Celebration of the Work of Gill Rye, University of London, November 8, 2019.
  • Kačkutė-Hagan, E. Representing Historical Trauma through Intimate Family Narratives. International conference Narratives of Forced Migration, University of Sterling, September 16–18, 2019.
  • Kačkutė-Hagan, E. Nancy Huston: Translingual Mother, Bilingual Writer. International conference Across Languages: Translingualism in Contemporary Women’s Writing, University of London, April 30–May 3, 2019.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

Public lectures

  • Vytautas Bikulčius. Lecture Marcel Proust in Lithuanian. French Institute (IF Lituanie), Vilnius, February 13, 2019;
  • Vytautas Bikulčius. Lecture Contemporary French Novel. Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, March 05, 2019;
  • Genovaitė Dručkutė. Lecture Translations of French Literature into Lithuanian. Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, March 28, 2019;
  • Genovaitė Dručkutė. Lecture The poetry of Paul Verlaine and its translations into Lithuanian. French Institute, Vilnius, May 20, 2019.

DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE

5 Universiteto, LT-01122 Vilnius
Tel 852687232
E-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Diego Ardoino

STAFF

Associate professors: Dr. Diego Ardoino, Dr. Dainius Būrė, Dr. Novella Di Nunzio.
Assistant professor: Dr. Jogilė Teresa Ramonaitė.
Lecturers: Alessandra Calì, Paola Fertoli, Dr. Aušra Gataveckaitė, Ieva Kirilauskaitė, Davide Trezzi.
PhD student: Julija Šabasevičiūtė (Pisa University and Vilnius University; supervisor Assoc. Prof. Diego Ardoino).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Italian synchronic and diachronic linguistics
Italian dialectology
Cross-linguistic studies of Italian and Lithuanian
Italian language teaching
History of the Italian language
History of the Italian literature
Translation studies
Lexicography

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Germanic and Romance Literary and Cultural Texts. Prof. R. Rudaitytė. 2010–2021.

Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Investigations into the Lexical, Phonological and Grammatical systems of the Baltic Languages. Habil. Dr. Bonifacas Stundžia. 2010–2021.

Main publications:
di Nunzio, N. Furio Jesi e Cesare Pavese. Dalla teoria del mito alla teoria della creazione letteraria. Mythos. Rivista di Storia delle religioni 13. 2019.

Būrė, D. Le prime traduzioni e i primi traduttori di Giovanni Verga in Russia e in Lituania // Annali della Fondazione Verga: Verga e “gli altri”. La biblioteca, i presupposti, la ricezione. 2018, ed. in 2019, 25–46.

Project in part supported by Erasmus Traineeship

III Dialectological Expeditions in Western Liguria. Supervisor - D. Ardoino.

The third Dialectological Expedition in Liguria (San Bartolomeo al Mare, Andora, Bordighera, Genova and Diano Marina) took place on September 16–21, 2019. The project investigates some dialectal varieties of western Liguria, paying particular attention to the phonetic and lexical aspects. The main aim of the project is to record audio and video files of native dialect speakers and at the same time to take pictures of the particular objects mentioned during the conversations. The privileged fields of investigation concern the old recessive crafts such as the miller, the shoemaker, the farrier etc.

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

University of Pisa, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics (Italy)
The Italian Cultural Institute in Vilnius (Lithuania)
Valdovų Rūmai Vilnius (Lithuania)
Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri, Bordighera (Italy)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dainius Būrė –

  • editorial board member of the journal Letteratura italiana antica: rivista annuale di testi e studi (Italy);
  • editorial board member of the journal Skené. Rivista di letteratura italiana e francese (Italy);
  • member of the Commission for the preparation of the Series Viduramžių biblioteka published by the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Diego Ardoino –

  • member of the Committee of the PhD Study Programme of Discipline Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere, Department FiLeLi University of Pisa;
  • visiting professor “Intensive Lithuanian language course” University of Pisa, Department FiLeLi, March 20–April 20.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Novella Di Nunzio –

  • Erasmus traineeship. Naples, L‘Orientale University, March 17–24;
  • Erasmus traineeship. Summer School The role of drama in higher and adult language education: teacher training and the challenges of inclusion, University of Grenoble. August 22–26.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Ardoino, D. Degli etnonimi Βοροῦσκοι, Bruzi, Prissani e Borussi. Problemi di (co)referenza. Conferenza internazionale IV Incontro di Baltistica/ PRA 17 Interlinguistica, plurilinguismo e pensiero linguistico dall’antichità al Rinascimento. Pisa, May 13–14, 2019.
  • di Nunzio, N. Le classicisme moderniste et le dialogue avec la tradition. Dante et Shakespeare chez Montale. International conference Dante et Shakespeare: cosmologie, politique, poétique. Poitiers (France), April 4–6, 2019.
  • di Nunzio, N. Il regime, l’autonomia, il ritorno. Immagini di Vilnius in tre poeti contemporanei. International conference Forms of Moving / Forms of Living. Adaptations, Translations, Linguistic and Literary Contaminations in Central and Eastern Europe, Naples (Italy), December 12–13, 2019.
  • Būrė, D. Educazione delle passioni: il dramma eroicomico di Gaetano Fiorio Vincislao di Lituania (1791). International seminar Giornate della cultura spagnola e italiana.Toruń, Nicolaus Copernicus University. May 21–22, 2019.
  • Ramonaitė, J. T. Adoptive parents' attitudes towards bilingualism and their effects. International Symposium on Bilingualism 12 (ISB12), University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada), June 23–28, 2019.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Organization of the international conference Trans(n)azioni: itinerari, incontri, storie della lingua, della letteratura e della cultura italiana, Warsaw-Vilnius, May 24–27, 2019. (N. di Nunzio).
  • Organization of the XIX° Week of the Italian Language in the World L’italiano sul palcoscenico, October 21–27, 2019. (A. Cali, D. Ardoino, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Vilnius and the Embassy of Italy).

 

INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

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

Director – Prof. Dr. Roma Kriaučiūnienė

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS

Teaching and learning modern languages as a prerequisite for the development of general and subject-specific competences
Structural, semantic, phonetic and functional research into languages for specific purposes
Media linguistics
Diachronic and achronic lexicography and metalexicography

DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH IN LANGUAGES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

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

Head – Prof. Dr. Julija Korostenskienė (from September 01, 2019, Prof. Dr. Roma Kriaučiūnienė (Acting Head)

STAFF

Professor: Dr. Julija Korostenskienė.
Associate professors: Dr. Aušra Janulienė, Dr. Lina Bikelienė.
Lecturers: Dr. Simona Kontrimienė, Dr. Olga Medvedeva, Dr. Deimantė Veličkienė, Rasa Bačiulienė, Vaiva Eimulienė, Vitas Gricius, Auksė Kuokštienė, Rūta Montvilienė, Birutė Ona Palovienė, Gracija Pleikienė, Diana Snapkauskaitė, Roma Valiukienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cognitive linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Contrastive syntax and semantics
Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP): academic English, English for professional purposes
Content language integrated learning (CLIL)
Translation

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Structural, Semantic, Phonetic and Functional Research in Languages for Specific Purposes. Project coordinator - Prof. Dr. Julija Korostenskienė. Contributors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lina Bikelienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aušra Janulienė, Lect. Dr. Olga Medvedeva, Lect. Dr. Simona Kontrimienė, Lect. Rasa Bačiulienė, Lect. Dr. Deimantė Veličkienė.

The aim is to investigate language structure and aspects of discourse within the dimensions of semantics, phonetic theory, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, translation theory and conceptual metaphor theory, seeking to reveal linguistic phenomena using one or more language(s) as well as by exploring their interaction with cultural and social processes.

Main publications:

Kontrimienė, S. Assessing Spirituality as the Ultimate End: Development and Validation of the Humanistic Spirituality Inventory. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 2019, first published online,
doi.org/10.1177/0022167819850678.

Kontrimienė, S. Humanistinio dvasingumo ryšys su auklėjimo šeimoje patirtimis [The Relationship between Humanistic Spirituality and Parenting Experiences]. Tiltai. 2019, 82: 23–47, doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.15181/tbb.v82i1.1958.

Korostenskiene, J., Lieponytė, A. Irony, sarcasm and parody in the American sitcom. Modern Family. Israeli Journal of Humour Research. 2019, 8(1): 51–85.

EU Funded Projects

EU Measure “Improvement of Qualification of Teachers and Other Education System Employees”. Tęsk [Continue]. Registration no. 09.2.1
ESFA-V-727-01-0001. Internship
supervisor Aušra Janulienė. 2018–2021.
The project is funded from Operational Programme for the European Union Funds
Investments in Lithuania. The project goal is to improve student achievements by providing
support for effective changes in general education institutions. The support focus in two
directions: a) implementing innovations in teacher professional development and b) implementing
innovations in pre-service teacher training.

Innovative Teacher Education through Personalized Learning / INTERPERARL (No. 2018-1-LT01-KA203-046979). Simona Kontrimienė - researcher in the ERASMUS + KA203
Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education project. Project partners: University of Iceland
(Iceland), University College Cork (Ireland), Vilnius University, Šiauliai University, Vytautas Magnus University.

Other projects

International project Live and Learn, Rasa Bačiulienė - project manager.

Simona Kontrimienė. Participation in the Erasmus+ Project’s Innovative Teacher Education through Personalized Learning / INTERPERARL
No. 2018-1-LT01-KA203-046979 Intensive Programme for Teaching Staff at the University College Cork, Ireland. October 21–25, 2019.

Simona Kontrimienė. Participation in the Erasmus+ Project’s Innovative Teacher Education through Personalized Learning / INTERPERARL
No. 2018-1-LT01-KA203-046979 transnational partner meeting at the University College Cork, Ireland. October 25–26, 2019.

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lina Bikelienė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics;
  • member of Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania;
  • member of European Association for Language Testing and Assessment ;
  • member of International Phonetic Association;
  • member of Learner Corpus Association ;
  • member of Lithuania-Romania Friendship Association Board;
  • deputy editor-in-Chief of the journal Verbum, http://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/verbum/about/editorialTeam.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aušra Janulienė –

  • member of the Board of the English Speaking Union;
  • member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA);
  • member of the European Society for the Study of English;
  • editorial board member of the journal Verbum, http://www.journals.vu.lt/verbum/about/editorialTeam .

Prof. Dr. Julija Korostenskienė –

  • editorial board member of the journal Studies About Languages (Kalbų studijos);
  • member of DGKL / GCLA, German Cognitive Linguistics Association;
  • member of ISFLA, International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association;
  • member of LKPA – Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania;
  • member of EALTA - European Association for Language Testing and Assessment.

Dr. Simona Kontrimienė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Educational Research Association (LERA);
  • member of the European Educational Research Association (EERA);
  • member of the World Education Research Association (WERA);
  • member of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH);
  • member of the Lithuanian Movement for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dr. Olga Medvedeva –

Lect. Birutė Ona Palovienė –

  • member of LKPA – Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania;
  • President of the English-Speaking Union Lithuania;
  • international consultancy board member of the English-Speaking Union Italy.

Lect. Roma Valiukienė –

  • examiner for the International English Language test IELTS;
  • assessment board member of the Multilingual Olympics Aš kalbu, tu kalbi – mes bendraujame! March 30, 2019, International American School, Vilnius.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Bikelienė, L. 13th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English Accents 2019. 12–14 December, 2019. University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland. Section presentation: The role of plosive codas: recognition and perception by the Lithuanian learners of English, http://filolog.uni.lodz.pl/accents/;
  • Kontrimienė, S. The international multidisciplinary conference Lisbon Economics and Statistics of Education organised by the University of Lisbon, Portugal, Lisbon, January 24–25, 2019. Section presentation: Relationship between Humanistic Spirituality and Parenting Experiences, https://rem.rc.iseg.ulisboa.pt/lese/5e3/;
  • Korostenskienė, J. (together with A. Belovodskaja). 7th International Conference on Comparative Media Studies in Today’s World, section Speech etiquette in online communities. 16–17 April 2019. St.Peterburg’s State University, St.Petersburg, Russia. Section presentation: Pragmatics of address forms among Russian speakers in Lithuania: reconstructing the speech profile of social media audiences, http://cmstw2019.org/ ;
  • Medvedeva, O. and Janulienė, A. 15th International conference Innovations in Language Learning, 12th edition, Pixel, 14–15 November, 2019. Florence, Italy. Section presentation: The Use of Authentic Materials in a Legal English Class, https://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL/index.php.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND RESEARCH

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7268
E-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Liudmila Arcimavičienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr. Roma Kriaučiūnienė.
Associate professors: Dr. Liudmila Arcimavičienė, Dr. Svetozar Postič.
Assistant professor: Dr. Ovidiu Ivancu.
Junior assistants: Dalia Pinkevičienė, Ieva Stasiūnaitė, Irena Snukiškienė, Loreta Zavadskienė.
Lecturers: Vilma Asijavičiūtė, Rūta Burbaitė, Aušra Dapšienė, Laura Giniūnienė, Diana Gornatkevičienė, Daiva Janavičienė, Ana Jankūnienė, Vitalija Jankauskaitė-Jokūbaitienė, Andrius Ledas, Jurgita Kašelionytė-Radet, Lina Marčiulionytė, Leonora Norvilienė, Inga Piščikienė, Aušrelė Pranculienė, Inga Rozgienė, Hannah Lucy Shipman, Rūta Sirvydė, Rasa Stalnionytė, Iva Stasiūnaitė, Asta Statkevičienė, Danguolė Straižytė, Jeffrey Todd La Roux, Albina Trečiokaitė, Loreta Zavadskienė, Eglė Židonienė, Vilma Vaskelaitė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Applied Linguistics
Morphology
Semantics
Foreign language teaching methodology
Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP): academic English, English for professional purposes
Content language integrated learning (CLIL)
Development of value attitudes and moral competence
Development of students’ linguistic and intercultural competences
Media and political discourse

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Teaching and Learning Modern Languages as a Prerequisite for the Development of General and Subject-specific Competences. Project coordinator - Prof. Dr. Roma Kriaučiūnienė.

The aim is to investigate the possibilities of developing general and subject-specific competencies in teaching and learning processes of modern languages, analyse various lingvo-didactic phenomena.

Main publication:

Kriaučiūnienė, R., Targamadzė, V. Mapping the concept of a good school with teachers’ characteristics in the context of a good school concept. Journal of Education Culture and Society. 2019, vol. 10(2): 32–42.

Lingo-didactic research, linguistic and literature studies.

Main publications:

Stundžia, B., Jarmalavičius, D. Daiktavardžių dūryba vokiškuose XVII-XVIII baltų kalbų žodynuose. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2019, 376 p.

Poštić, S. Istorija američke kulture, delom uspomene [History of US Culture, Partly Reminiscences]. Novi Sad, Serbia: Akademska knjiga. 2019, 144 p.

Arcimavičienė, L. Self and other metaphors as facilitating features in populist style of diplomatic discourse: a case study of Obama and Putin’s speeches. Populist Discourse: International Perspectives. 2019, 89–125. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-97388-3.

Other projects

Rūta Sirvydė. Educating the Society and Strengthening the Potential of Human Resources in Lithuania. Project code: 09.4.3-ESFA-T-846-01-0106. English teaching for professional development.

Roma Kriaučiūnienė. Member of researchers of the project ARQUS European University Alliance. https://www.arqus-alliance.eu/.

Virginija Pukevičiūtė. (ES Erasmus+, KA2) Problemorientierter Soft CLIL Ansatz für nichtenglischen FS-Unterricht (Nr. 2018-1-SK01-KA201-046316. From 2019-09-10 to 2019-12-31 (researcher) (Problem-oriented Soft CLIL approach for non-English language teaching).

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Liudmila Arcimavičienė –

Prof. Dr. Roma Kriaučiūnienė –

Junior Assist. Dalia Pinkevičienė –

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

Lect. Hannah Shipman –

  • IATEFL Basic Membership through LAKMA.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Svetozar Poštič –

  • member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA);
  • programme committee member of the international conference Teaching and Learning Languages in the 21st Century: Linguistic, Educational and Cultural Aspects." (June 7–8, 2018). Vilnius, Lithuania.

Junior Assist. Loreta 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).

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Arcimavičienė, L., Trajkova, Z. Conflict via Linguistic Violence in Media Political Discourse: A Case Study of Skripals’ Poisoning. English Studies at the Intreface of Disciplines (ESIDRP). Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje.
  • Kriaučiūnienė, R. Insights into new generation students’ values. EDULEARN 19: 11th international conference on education and new learning technologies, July1–3, 2019. Palma, Spain.
  • Poštić, S. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, and the Concept of Laughing through Tears in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. International CCnference BELLS 90. May 30–June 1, 2019. Faculty of Philology, Belgrade University, Belgrade, Serbia.
  • Stasiūnaitė, I. On the motivated polysemy of the Lithuanian PO and the English UNDER. 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 15) Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Cognitive Linguistics. Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, August 6–11, https://iclc2019.site/.
  • Zavadskienė, L. Mapping the Road towards Reflective-Practice-Based Teacher Education: An Evidence-Informed Guide. 11th World Conference on Educational Sciences (WCES-2019), Milan (Italy), February 8, 2019, http://worldeducationcenter.eu/new/index.php/Wces/Wces2019 .

CENTRE FOR MEDIA LINGUISTICS

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

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Viktorija Makarova

STAFF

Professor: Dr. Danutė Balšaitytė.
Associate Professor: Dr. Loreta Chodzkienė.
Assistant Professor: Dr. Lina Inčiūraitė-Noreikienė.
Lecturers: Jelena Kirejeva, Nadežda Petrauskienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Phonetics
Morphology
Syntax
History of linguistics
Cognitive linguistics
Peculiarities of persuasive discourse
Peculiarities of literary discourse
Conflict communication
Intercultural communication
Foreign language teaching methodology

RESEARCH PROJECTS CONDUCTED IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Linguistic Media Research. Prof. Dr. Danutė Balšaitytė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Loreta Chodzkienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Viktorija Makarova, Prof. Dr. Julija Korostenskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Liudmila Arcimavičienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anastasija Belovodskaja (BKKI), afil. VU Prof. Dr. Eleonora Lassan, Lect. Jelena Kirejeva, Lect. Nadežda Petrauskienė.

The aim is to investigate peculiarities of different language functioning and linguistic behaviour of communication participants in the area of contemporary media.

Main publications:

Arcimavičienė, L. Gender, metaphor and migration in media representations. Migration and Media Discourses about identities in crisis. John Benjamins Publishing: Amsterdam. 2019, 137–159.

Belovodskaja, A. Власть симулякра в эпоху новых медиа: к вопросу об изучении информационных аномалий в цифровом медиапространстве. Perswazja językowa w różnych dyskursach (Language persuasion in various discourses), Eds. Ż. Sładkiewicz, A.

Klimkiewicz, M. Noińska. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego. 2019, vol. 3: 168–192.
Lassan, E. От эйджизма в языке к геронтофобии в тексте: о жанрах ненависти в сети. Коммуникативные исследования. 2019, vol. 6(4): 905–919.

EU funded projects

European Cooperation for Future-Oriented Science and Education: Cooperation ProgrammeBaden-Württemberg — Central and Eastern Europe. 2018–2019, coordinated by the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg and Baden-Württemberg. Participant – Assoc. Prof. Loreta Chodzkienė.

Problemorientierter Soft CLIL Ansatz fur nichtenglischen FS-Unterricht (November 15, 2019–December 31, 2020) (Nr. 2018-1-SK01-KA201-046316). Researcher – Assoc. Prof. Viktorija Makarova.

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. Danutė Balšaitytė –

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

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Loreta Chodzkienė –

  • member of LKPA (Language Teachers’Association of Lithuania);
  • member of LAKMA (Lithuanian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language);
  • member of ESSE (the European Society for the Study of English);
  • editorial board member of the journal Ogrody Nauk i Sztuk (Poland);
  • member of the programme committee of annual international conferences END (Education and New Developments).

Assit. Prof. Dr. Lina Inčiūraitė-Noreikienė –

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

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Viktorija Makarova –

  • member of the Discourse Linguistics Commission of the International Slavist Committee;
  • member of Media Linguistics Commission of the International Slavist Committee;
  • deputy editor-in-Chief of the journal Verbum, http://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/verbum/about/editorialTeam.

Lect. Nadežda Petrauskienė –

  • member of National Minority Council at the Department of Ethnic Minorities (LRV);
  • Academic Board Member of National Minority Council at the Department of Ethnic Minorities (LRV);
  • member of the Association Russian Cultural Centre.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LINGUISTICS

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7268
E-mail:

Head – Prof. Dr. Danguolė Melnikienė

STAFF

Professor: Dr. Danguolė Melnikienė.
Associate professors: Dr. Carmen Caro Dugo, Dr. Daiva Mickūnaitytė (part-time).
Lecturers: Valentina Belokon, Eglė Girniuvienė, Simona Kamarauskaitė, Svetlana Kosova, Jordana Gonsales Krus, Luca Pavan, Nora Strikauskaitė, Ilana Subačienė, RasaTamošaitienė.
Doctoral student: Alfonso Rascon Caballero.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Lexicography
Lexicology
Translation studies
Literary studies

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Diachronic and Achronic Lexicography and Metalexicography. Project coordinator - Prof. Dr. Danguolė Melnikienė.

The aim is to investigate different types of dictionaries, their history, peculiarities of their lexicographic description, analyse dictionary formation problems, provide methodological insights into reparation of new and development of the existing dictionaries; develop and digitise bilingual dictionaries.

Main publications:

Caro Dugo, C. La presencia de la literatura española en los países bálticos (1850–1914), in Christoph Strosetzki (Coord.), Perspectivas
actuales del hispanismo mundial, Volumen II: Ss.

XVIII y XIX |Literatura contemporánea, Reihe XII 2019, vol. 22.2: 17–29. Wissenschaftliche Schriften der WWU Münster.
Melnikienė, D. L’exemple lexicographique, un vrai casse-tête des dictionnaires bilingues. Cahiers du dictionnaire. 2019, 11: 95–109, https://classiques-garnier.com/les-cahiers-dudictionnaire.html.

Rascón Caballero, A. Losaspectos pragmáticos en la lexicografía didáctica. Cahiers du dictionnaire. 2019, 11: 379–392, https://classiques-garnier.com/les-cahiers-du-dictionnaire.html.

Projects

A New Version of the Lithuanian-French Dictionary. The project is supported by the French Embassy and Institute of the Lithuanian Language. Project coordinator - Prof. Dr. Danguolė Melnikienė.

The dictionary was prepared and presented to the Lexicography Center of the Lithuanian Language Institute and recommended for publication on September 25, 2019.

Erasmus+CBHE GERESH-CAM. The GEReSH-Cam project (Governance and Emergence of Research in Humanities in Cambodia). 2016–2019. Project administrator - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daiva Mickūnaitytė.

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

The Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
University of Bremen (Germany)
University of Konstanz (Germany)
University of Bari (Italy)
Belarus State University (Belorussia)
Cagliari University (Italy)
Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia)
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. Danguolė Melnikienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Carmen Caro Dugo –

  • editorial board member of the journal Verbum;
  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators;
  • member of International Association of Teachers of Spanish.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daiva Mickūnaitytė –

  • member of French Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania;
  • editorial board member of the journal Feuille de philologie comparée lituanienne et française.

Lect. Jordana Gonsales Cruz –

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

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Caro Dugo, C. El teatro áureo español en Lituania: traducción y recepción de «La vida es sueño. [The Spanish theatre of the Golden Age in Lithuania: translation and reception of “La vida es sueño”]. International conference “La traducción del teatro clásico español“, Bologna (Italy), October, 24–25, 2019. Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne, Universita di Bologna, https://eventi.unibo.it/traduccion-teatro.
  • Melnikienė, D. Le figement, un vrai casse-tête des dictionnaires bilingues. International conference XXIIème Journée Italo-albanaise des Dictionnaires. DICTIONNAIRE ET FIGEMENT Tirana (Albanija), May 10, 2019, http://ttn.univ-paris13.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Programme-Colloque-DICTIONNAIRE-ET-FIGEMENT-Tirana-10-Mai-2019.pdf .
  • Melnikienė, D. Les valeurs politiques, sont-elles compatibles avec celles du dictionnaire de langue? International conference XXIIème Journée Franco-Hispano-Italienne des Dictionnaires. DICTIONNAIRE ET DEMOCRATIE. Paris (Prancūzija), Université Sorbonne, November 30, 2019.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Carmen Caro Dugo. Spanish Forum at Vilnius University. Participation at, moreration and interpreting the discussion: Poetic relatiosnhips between Spain and Lithuania: Lithuania in Spanish potery/ Lithuanian potery in Spanish. May 7–8, 2019.
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Carmen Caro Dugo. Workshop for the Lithuanian translators organised by Lithuanian Institute of Culture. Anykščiai, October 3–6, 2019 m. Responsible for oganisation of the workshop of potery translation.
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Carmen Caro Dugo. Presentation of translation into Spanish La floresta de Anykščiai by Antanas Baranauskas, Valencia (Spain). April16, 2019.
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Carmen Caro Dugo. Discussion about literary translation. (In)visibe side of Dalia Grinkevičiūtė. International literary festival Vilnius Leaves November 9, 2019. MO museum (Pylimo St. 17, Vilnius), https://www.vilniauslapai.lt/dalyviai/carmen-caro-dugo.
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Carmen Caro Dugo. Interview about literary translations. LRT literary programme Literatūros akiračiai (November, 2019).

 

 

INSTITUTE FOR THE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF THE BALTIC

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
https://www.flf.vu.lt/institutai/bkki
E-mail:
Tel. 268 7205, 219 3248

Director - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erika Sausverde

DEPARTMENT OF BALTIC LINGUISTICS

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7211
e-mail:
E-mail:

Head – Prof. Dr. Daiva Sinkevičiūtė

STAFF

Professors: Habil. Dr. Bonifacas Stundžia, Dr. Birutė Jasiūnaitė, Dr. Jurgis Pakerys, Dr. Daiva Sinkevičiūtė.
Associate professors: Habil. Dr. Gustaw Ferdynand Juzala-Deprati, Dr. Birutė Kabašinskaitė, Dr. Galina Miškinienė (part-time), Dr. Vytautas Rinkevičius, Dr. Miguel Karl Villanueva Svensson.
Assistants: Dr. Ernesta Kazakėnaitė (part-time), Dr. Agnė Navickaitė-Klišauskienė, Dr. Eglė Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė (part-time).
Research fellow: Dr. Gina Kavaliūnaitė-Holvoet (part-time).
Post-doctoral students Dr. Eglė Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė.
Doctoral students: Giedrė Junčytė, Diana Plachovičiūtė (since autumn 2019), Veslava Sidaravičienė (on maternity leave), Danguolė Straižytė (since autumn 2019).

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Baltic and related languages and cultures
Ethnology and ethnolinguistics
Derivational and etymological analysis of compounds
Verb in the Baltic languages
Word formation
Topological relations of space in the Baltic languages
Linguistic/philological onomastic analysis
Accentology of the Baltic languages

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Studies of Baltic Languages, Texts and Cultures. Coordinated by Prof. Habil. Dr. Bonifacas Stundžia. 2019–2021.

Main publications:

Villanueva Svensson, M. K. The infinitive in Baltic and Balto-Slavic. Indo-European linguistics. 2019, vol. 7(1): 194 221, doi: 10.1163/22125892-00701009.

Pakerys, J. Causatives. In: Oxford Bibliographies: Linguistics, ed. Mark Aronoff. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019, 1–18, doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199772810-0228.

Kazakėnaitė, E. Ieskats 1587. un 1615. gada perikopju krājumos: izmaiņas. Baltu filologija. 2019, vol. 28(1): 5–32, doi: 10.22364/bf.28.1.01.

International Research Projects

EU Structural Funds

Lithuanian Academic Scheme for International Cooperation in Baltic Studies. Coordinated by Dr. Gina Holvoet. 2017–2023.

Projects Funded by the Research Council of Lithuania

Samuel Boguslav Chilinski’s New Testament. Research on the Manuscript, Facsimile and Interactive Publication in the Internet. Dr. G. Holvoet. 2016–2018.

Main publication:

Holvoet, G. [Kavaliūnaitė, G.] (editor). Samuelio Boguslavo Chylinskio Biblija [The Bible of Samuel Boguslav Chylinski]. 2019, vol. 2: Naujasis Testamentas Viešpaties mūsų Jėzaus Kristaus lietuvių kalba duotas Samuelio Boguslavo Chylinskio = Novum Testamentum Domini nostri Jesu Christi Lithvanicâ Lingvâ donatum a Samuelo Boguslao Chylinski. Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 572 p.

Compounds in Old (15th–18th c.) Bilingual German-Prussian/Lithuanian/Latvian or Lithuanian/Latvian/Prussian-German Dictionaries. Prof. Dr. B. Stundžia. 2016–2018.

Main publication:

Stundžia, B., Jarmalavičius, D. Daiktavardžių dūryba vokiškuose XVII–XVIII a. baltų kalbų žodynuose. Vilnius: Vilnius University Press. 2019, 376 p.

Lithuanian Accentual System: Origins and Historical Development. Coordinated by Dr. Vytautas Rinkevičius, 2018–2021.

Topological Spatial Relations in the Baltic Languages. Carried out by Dr. E. Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė. 2017–2019.

Main publication:

Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė, E., Šķilters, J., Zariņa, L. Containment and support in Baltic languages: overview, experimental evidence, and an extended RCC as applied to Latvian and Lithuanian. Baltic Journal of Modern Computing. 2019, vol. 7(2): 224–254, doi: 10.22364/bjmc.2019.7.2.04.

Other projects

Ministry of Education, Research and Sports of Lithuania:

Baltic Bridges. Carried out by prof. Jurgis Pakerys, 2019.
To Lithuania. Carried out by prof. Daiva Sinkevičiūtė, 2019.
Improvement of the Lithuanian Branch of the first Center of Baltic Studies in India: lectures on Lithuanian language and culture. Carried out by Dr. Gina Holvoet, 2019.

State Commission of the Lithuanian Language:

Names with suffix -ij- of Citizens of the Republic of Lithuania: Borrowing and Word-formation Tendencies. Coordinated by Prof. Daiva Sinkevičiūtė, 2018–2020.

Language of the 16th-18th century Lithuanian Calvinist Hymnals: an Editing History. Carried out by Dr. Birutė Kabašinskaitė, 2019.

Organization of the international seminar Making Old Lithuanian Texts Usable to Research. Carried out by Dr. Gina Kavaliūnaitė Holvoet, 2019.

Latvian Language Agency

Educational Activities of Latvian Studies. Carried out by Dr. Agnė Navickaitė-Klišauskienė, 2019.

Baltic Academy. Carried out by Dr. Ernesta Kazakėnaitė, 2019.

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)
Jagiellonian University of Krakow (Poland)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Dr. G. Holvoet –

Dr. B. Jasiūnaitė –

Habil. Dr. G. Juzala –

Dr. B. Kabašinskaitė –

Dr. G. Miškinienė –

  • consultant of the magazine Türkiyat Araştırmaları (Konja, Turkey), http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/issue-file/16865;
  • member of Lithuanian Association of Slavists;
  • member of the Ethnolinguistic Commission under the International Slavist Committee.

Dr. J. Pakerys –

Dr. V. Rinkevičius –

Dr. D. Sinkevičiūtė –

Prof. Habil. Dr. B. Stundžia –

Dr. M. Villanueva Svensson –

Dr. E. Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė –

BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Villanueva Svensson, M. K. The position of the Balto-Slavic ā-aorist. At the conference: 100 Years of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Ljubljana – A “Ljubilee”. Arbeitstagung of the Society for Indo-European Studies. Ljubljana, June 4–7, 2019.
  • Villanueva Svensson, M. K. Indo-European length and Balto-Slavic acute, again. At the conference: 12th International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology. Ljubljana, June 4–7, 2019.
  • Stundžia, B. Verbal governing compound calques in the 18th–19th c. Lithuanian and Latvian. At the conference: IV Incontro di Baltistica, Università di Pisa, 13–14 maggio, 2019.
  • Sinkevičiūtė, D. New compound names with first stem of Christian origin from the Lithuanian Metrica: origin and structure. At conference: Personal Names and Cultural Reconstructions. University of Helsinki, August 21–23, 2019.
  • Rinkevičius, V. Prosodic marks in the Old Prussian Enchiridion revisited. At the conference: Arbeitstagung of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Ljubljana, Ljubljana, June 4–7, 2019.

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Prof. Daiva Sinkevičiūtė - 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 Joint Expert’s Commission of K. Būga’s Scholarship bestowed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport;
  • Prof. Bonifacas Stundžia – member of Joint Experts’ Commission of THE BALTS’ AWARD bestowed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia; member of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language, http://www.vlkk.lt/struktura-ir-kontaktai/komisija.

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Dr. Ernesta Kazakėnaitė organized event Baltic Academy at Vilnius University– series of lectures for gymnasium pupils. December 7, 2019, https://www.emokykla.lt/bendrasis/pradzia/baltu-akademija-jungtys-ir-sienos/36134.
  • Prof. Daiva Sinkevičiūtė delivered a lecture on toponyms at the Lithuanian Language Days. Vilnius University, March 1, 2019.
  • Assoc. Prof. Vytautas Rinkevičius delivered a lecture Origin of the Baltic Languages at the event Student for 1 Day. Vilnius University, April 9, 2019.

Research dissemination articles

  • Stundžia, B. Kaip kirčiuoti pavardę Nausėda? [How to stress the last name Nausėda?]. Gimtoji kalba. 2019, Nr. 6, p. 7–9.
  • Stundžia, B. Ką parodė sudurtinių daiktavardžių Mažosios Lietuvos žodynuose tyrimas? [What did lexicographical research on the composita of Lithuania Minor show]. Gimtoji kalba. 2019, Nr. 2, p. 15–19.
  • Sinkevičiūtė, D. Moterų vardų su -ija įvairovė Lietuvos vardyne, [The diversity of female names ending in –ija in Lithuanian dictionary of names]. Gimtoji kalba. 2019, Nr. 3, p. 12–15.

DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, LT-01513, Vilnius
Tel. 268 72 30
E-mail:
e-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vaiva Žeimantienė
e-mail:

STAFF

Associate professors: Dr. Aleksej Burov, Dr. Eglė Kontutytė, Dr. Virginija Masiulionytė, Dr. Lina Plaušinaitytė, Dr. Diana Šileikaitė-Kaishauri, Dr. Skaistė Volungevičienė, Dr. Vaiva Žeimantienė, Dr. Diana Babušytė (part-time).
Assistants: Dr. Justina Daunorienė, Dr. Daumantas Katinas, Dr. Violeta Katinienė, Dr. Alexander Mionskowski (DAAD).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Contrastive linguistics of German and Lithuanian
Genre analysis, academic discourse
Grammatical, semantic and stylistics particularities of German and Lithuanian and their integration into the teaching process and lexicographic practice
History of the German language
German literature
Literature and epistemology (economics, law, politics)

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Studies of Baltic Languages, Texts and Cultures. Coordinated by Prof. Dr. Bonifacas Stundžia.

Studies in the Societies, Languages and Cultures of Northern and Central Europe. Coordinated by Dr. Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė.

Main publications:

Burov, A. Der Weltuntergang als temporales Ereignis in der eschatologischen Literatur des Mittelalters. Die vielen Gesichter der Germanistik. Finnische Beiträge der Germanistik. Mia Raitaniemi, Acke Hanna u. a. (Hrsg.). Bern: Peter Lang. 2019,133–145.

Kontutytė, E. Deutsche Sprache in der litauischen Presse. Bridging Languages and Cultures. Linguistics, Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication. Guntars Dreijers, Agnese Dubova, Jānis Veckrācis (Hrsg.). Berlin: Frank & Timme. 2019, 303–324. (TransÜD. Arbeiten zur Theorie und Praxis des Übersetzens und Dolmetschens 104).

Mionskowski, A. Utopistische Ökonomien der Neuzeit (16. –19. Jahrhundert). Literatur und Ökonomie. Handbuch. Joseph Vogl, Burkhardt Wolf (Hrsg.). Berlin, Boston. Walter de Gruyter. 2019, 403–419.

Synchronic and Diachronic Research into Phonological, Lexical and Grammatical Systems of the Lithuanian Language. Coordinated by Assoc. Prof. Vilma Zubaitienė.

Lexicon and Discourse: Semantics, Idiomaticity, Vocabulary. Coordinated by Prof. Inesa Šeškauskienė.

Main publication:

Masiulionytė, V., Ryvitytė, B., Šeškauskienė, I. The euro and Lithuania(ns) in their own eyes: the Russian past and the European future in online jokes. Informalization and Hybridization of Speech Practices. Amei Koll-Stobbe (ed.). Berlin: Lang Verlag. 2019, 151–180.

Language Usage, Language Learning and Teaching. Coordinated by Prof. Meilutė Ramonienė.

Projects Supported by the EU Funds

Grammar and Semantics. Coordinated by Prof. Dr. Axel Holvoet.

The Baltic Verb: Grams, Categories and Domain. MTEP 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0071. Leader - Prof. Dr. A. Holvoet. January 2018–December 2021. Participant - Assoc. Prof. Vaiva Žeimantienė. Funded by the European Social Fund.
Project homepage: https://www.flf.vu.lt/mokslas/projektai/esf#the-baltic-verb-grams-categories-domains

Main publication:

Holvoet, A., Žeimantiene, V. Absentives or ambidirectionals? Motion-cum purpose constructions with ‘be’ and the infinitive in Baltic and elsewhere. Minor Grams in Baltic, Slavonic and Fennic = Baltic Linguistics. 2019, vol.10, 155–193, doi: 10.32798/bl.363.

Erasmus+ project Problem oriented Soft CLIL approach for LOTE. Coordinator - Daumantas Katinas, participants - Assoc.Prof. Diana Šileikaitė-Kaishauri, Assoc. Prof. Skaistė Volungevičienė.  2018–2020. Project homepage: http://www.erasmusplus.sk/index.php?sw=33&menu=14&proj=2018-1-SK01-KA201-046316

Tęsk [Go on]. Project Funding: Operational Programme for EU Structural Funds Investments. November 2019–June 2019. Assoc. Prof. Eglė Kontutytė – participant. Project homepage: https://www.upc.smm.lt/projektai/tesk/apie.php

Projects funded by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language

Research on Phrasemes in Student Writing and an Interactive Phrase Bank. Coordinated by Assoc. Prof. Vilma Zubaitienė. Assoc. Prof. Lina Plaušinaitytė and Assoc. Prof. Skaistė Volungevičienė – participants. February 2017–November 2019. Project homepage: http://www.fraziskumas.flf.vu.lt/english/about-the-project/

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

University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Ventspils University of Applied Sciences (Latvia)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Asoc. Prof. Dr. Diana Babušytė –

  • member of the German Language Teachers Association of Lithuania.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aleksej Burov –

  • member of the Austrian Association for German Studies.

Dr. Justina Daunorienė –

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

Dr. Daumantas Katinas –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics;
  • member of the German Language Teachers Association of Lithuania.

Dr. Violeta Katinienė –

  • member of the German Language Teachers Association of Lithuania.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eglė Kontutytė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics;
  • 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. Virginija Masiulionytė –

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

Dr. Alexander Mionskowski –

  • Member of the Hugo von Hofmannstahl Society (Hugo von Hofmannstahl-Gesellschaft);
  • Member of the Karl Hofer Society (Karl Hofer Gesellschaft).

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lina Plaušinaitytė –

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

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Diana Šileikaitė-Kaishauri –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Skaistė 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. Vaiva Žeimantienė –

  • deputy editor-in-Chief of the journal Kalbotyra (Linguistics);
  • editorial board member of the journal Moderne Sprachen (Austria);
  • chairperson of the 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 Lithuanian DAAD Club (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst);
  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics;
  • member of the Lithuanian division of German Language Society (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache);
  • member of the German Language Teachers Association of Lithuania.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

Aleksej Burov. Das Jüngste Gericht von Frau Ava im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kreativität und Epigonalität. Conference of the Medievalists Society “Schaffen und Nachahmen. Kreative Prozesse im Mittelalter”, Tubingen, March 17–20, 2019, https://www.mediaevistenverband.de/symposien/18-symposium-2019/ .

Alexander Mionskowski. Eugen Ruges Roman „Follower“ (2016). At the Asian Germanist conference Einheit in der Vielfalt? Germanistik zwischen Divergenz und Konvergenz, Sapporo, August 26–29, 2019, https://www.agt-jgg.org/ .

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aleksej Burov – coordinator of the KAAD-East-Europe-Programme in Lithuania; board member of the Lithuanian DAAD Club (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst).
  • Dr. Daumantas Katinas – chairperson of the Lithuanian DAAD Club (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst); chairperson of the Lithuanian division of German Language Society (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache).
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eglė Kontutytė –member of the Council of the Lithuanian National German Language Olympics.

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN PHILOLOGY

5 Universiteto, 01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7224, 268 7225
E-mail:
e-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pavel Lavrinec

STAFF

Affiliated professor: Habil. Dr. Eleonora Lassan.
Professors: Dr. Ala Lichačiova, Dr. Galina Michailova.
Associate professors: Dr. Anastasija Belovodskaja, Dr. Dagnė Beržaitė, Dr. Liudmila Garbul, Dr. Jelena Konickaja, Dr. Pavel Lavrinec.
Assistant: Dr. Julija Snežko.
Lecturers: Dr. Natalja Kapočė, Regina Čičinskaitė, Valentina Stankevičiūtė.
Doctoral students: Tomas Čenys, Aliona Sofija Ivinskaja, Ingrida Kisieliūtė, Aleksandra Samoilenko (Šalkinė).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

History of interaction of Russian and Lithuanian literature
Interface of Lithuanian, Russian and other Slavonic literatures and cultures
Styles, genres and methods of interpretation of Russian literature
Russian literary history of the 20th century
Language in the social context
Links among language, culture and identity
The Russian language in Lithuania
Cognitive linguistics and cognitive aspects of the discourse of the Internet
Linguistic semantics and pragmatics
Media linguistics
Acquisition of Russian as L1 and L2
Lithuanian-Slavonic (Russian) contrastive linguistics
Historical lexicology of Russian and Eastern Slavic languages
XVII century Polish-Russian linguistic contacts

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Modern Studies of the Russian Language and Literature in the Context of Different Cultures. Coordinated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pavel Lavrinec. 2018–2022.

Main publications:

Belovodskaja, A. On expanding the research opportunities of the hashtag as a media discourse phenomenon. Медиалингвистика (Media linguistics). 2019, vol. 6(1): 60–74. doi: 10.21638/spbu22.2019.105.

Lavrinec, P. Дмитрий Философов и Владимир Самойло в полемике о «Двенадцати» Александра Блока [Dmitry Filosofov and Vladimir Samoilo in a polemic about the “Twelve” of Aleksandr Blok]. Скрещение судеб. Literarische und kulturelle Beziehungen zwischen Russland und dem Westen. A Festschrift for Fedor B. Poljakov. Eds. Lazar Fleishman, Stefan Michael Newerkla, and Michael Wachtel. Berlin: Peter Lang. Stanford Slavic Studies. 2019, vol. 49, 397–408.

Beconytė, G., Snežko, J., Balčiūnas, A., Vidugirytė-Pakerienė, I. Enhanced conceptual model for spatial references in works of fiction: Mapping Vilnius literature. The Cartographic Journal. 2019, doi: 10.1080/00087041.2018.15332921-14.

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

European University Viadrina, Frankfurt am Oder (Germany)
East Slavonic Institute, Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland)
Institute of Eastern-Slavic Philology, Gdansk University (Poland)
Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. P. Astaf’ev (Russian Federation)
Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don (Russian Federation)
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Saint Petersburg State University (Russian Federation)
Ljubljana University (Slovenia)
Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw (Poland)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Jelena Konickaja –

Affil. Prof. Habil. Dr. Eleonora Lassan –

Prof. Ala Lichačiova –

Prof. Galina Michailova –

Assoc. Prof. Anastasija Belovodskaja –

Assoc. Prof. Dagnė Beržaitė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Comparative Literature.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Liudmila Garbul –

  • member of the International Association of Belarusian Studies.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jelena Konickaja –

Assoc. Prof. Pavel Lavrinec –

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Pavel Lavrinec participated in several Lithuanian Radio programmes:

CENTRE FOR GENERAL LINGUISTICS

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel.: 268 7235
e-mail:

Head – Prof. Habil. Dr. Axel Holvoet

STAFF

Professor: Habil. Dr. Axel Holvoet.
Researchers: Dr. Peter Arkadiev, Dr. Paweł Brudzyński, Dr. Anna Daugavet, Dr. Kirill Kozhanov, Dr. Liina Lindström, Dr. Nicole Nau, Dr. Birutė Spraunienė, Dr. Vaiva Žeimantienė.
Postdoc: Dr.Vladimir Panov.
Doctoral students: Asta Laugalienė, Danguolė Kotryna Kapkanaitė, Ringailė Trakymaitė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Grammatical structure of languages, viewed in a cross-linguistic or areal-typological context
Its interaction with the lexicon and with discourse pragmatics
Baltic languages in their interaction with the neighbouring Slavonic and Finnic languages and the languages of Eurasia
Grammatical voice
Case and grammatical relations
Mood and modality
Tense and aspect
Inflectional classes
Discourse particles

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT ED IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Grammar and Semantics. Coordinated by Prof. Habil. Dr. Axel Holvoet. 2019–2021.

Main publications:

Holvoet, A. On the heterogeneity of deaccusative reflexives. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung. 2019, 72.3: 401–419. doi: 10.1515/stuf-2019-0016.

Holvoet, A., Spraunienė, B., Laugalienė, A. Some Implications for Ērika: Implicatives in Danish, Finnish and Lithuanian. Shaping the Rings of the Scandinavian Fellowship. Festschrift in Honour of Ērika Sausverde. Eds. Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė and Loreta Vaicekauskienė. Scandinavistica Vilnensis. 2019, no. 14: 215–40, https://doi.org/10.15388/ScandinavisticaVilnensis.2019.11.

Other projects

European Union Social Fund

The Baltic Verb: Grams, Categories and Domain. MTEP 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0071. Prof. Habil. Dr. A. Holvoet, https://www.flf.vu.lt/mokslas/projektai/esf#the-baltic-verb-grams-categories-domains .

Main publications:

Holvoet, A., Daugavet, A. An elusive experiential tense construction in Latvian. Minor Grams in Baltic, Slavonic and Fennic = Baltic Linguistics. 2019, vol.10: 109–153. doi:10.32798/bl.362.

Holvoet, A., Daugavet, A., Lindström, L. (). Insubordinated concessive imperatives: An areal constructional idiom type. In Minor Grams in Baltic, Slavonic and Fennic =Baltic Linguistics. 2019, vol.10: 307–354. doi: 10.32798/bl.367.

Arkadiev, P. The Lithuanian “buvo + be-present active participle” construction revisited: A corpus-based study. In Minor Grams in Baltic, Slavonic and Fennic = Baltic Linguistics. 2019, vol.10: 65–108. doi: 10.32798/bl.361.

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

University of Stockholm, Institutionen för lingvistik (Sweden)
Tartu University, Institute for Estonian and General Linguistics (Estonia)
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Institute of Linguistics (Poland)
Warsaw University, Faculty of Polish Studies, Chair of General and Baltic Linguistics (Poland)
Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies & Institute of Linguistics (Russian Federation)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Habil. Dr. Axel Holvoet –

Dr. Peter Arkadiev –

  • member of Societas Linguistica Europaea;
  • member of Association of Linguistic Typology.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

Panov, V. The markers of uncontroversial information in Europe. SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea) conference in Leipzig, August 21–24, 2019.

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

Dr. Vladimir Panov participated in the program Mokslo sriuba:

CENTRE FOR POLISH STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel.: 268 72 37, 268 72 36
E-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Miroslav Davlevič
e-mail:

STAFF

Professor: Dr. Kristina Rutkovska.
Associate professors: Dr. Miroslav Davlevič, Dr. Viktorija Ušinskienė, Dr. Irena Fedorovič.
Assistants: Dr. Teresa Dalecka, Dr. Regina Jakubėnas.
Doctoral students: Monika Bogdzevič, Agata Adomaitytė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Polish linguistics and literature
History of interaction of Polish and Lithuanian literatures and cultures
Textual poetics and its relations to philosophical, aesthetical, sociological systems
Polish language in Lithuania
Polish manuscript tradition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Acquisition of Polish L1 and L2
Bilingualism and multilingualism in Lithuania
Sociolinguistics
Ethno-linguistics
Etymology
Lexicography
Translation of professional texts

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects supported bythe University Budget

Studies in the Societies, Languages and Cultures of Northern and Central Europe. Coordinated by Dr. Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė. 2019–2021.

Main publications:

Fedorovič, I. Głowę Twoją drogą do swojej piersi przycisnęłabym i powiedziałabym, jak bardzi Cię kocham. Listy Józefiny Halkówny do Czesława Jankowskiego z 1884 roku, [Your Head So Dear to My Heart, I Would Hug Tight to My Chest and I Would Tell How Much I Love You]. Letters of Jozefina Halkova to Czesław Jankowski from 1884. Slavistica Vilnensis. 2019, vol. 64(1): 133–143.

Rutkovska, K. Grafia i ortografia dwujęzycznej postylli „Pukty kazań” Konstantego Szyrwida. Część II. Analogie graficzne i ortograficzne w tekście polskim i litewskim [Graphical Design and Bilingual Ortography of Konstantinas Sirvydas’ Postil Punkty Kazań. Part II. Graphical and Spelling Analogies in the Polish and Lithuanian Text]. Prace Filologiczne LXXIII, Warszawa. 2019, 369–383.

Ušinskienė, V. On Some Features of Legal Documentation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 17th Centuries. Tatarskie dziedzictwo kulturowe. Historia. Literatura. Sztuka, (ed.) J. Kulwicka-Kamińska, Cz. Łapicz, G. Miškiniene, Toruń. 2019, 195–215.

Other projects

Lithuanian Research Council

International Seminar on Cognitive Ethnolinguistics Values in Lithuanian and Polish Worldview. Vilnius University, August 4–7, 2019, (S-MOR-19-7, LMT), conducted in cooperation with the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. Coordinated by prof. Kristina Rutkovska.

Social Fund of the European Union

View of Mother in the Thinking of Contemporary Youth, coordinated by prof. Kristina Rutkovska. 2018–2019.

State Language Commission of Lithuania

Language. Nation. State. Coordinated by prof. Irena Smetonienė. 2017–2018.

Main publication:

Rutkovska, K., Smetonienė, I., Smetona, M. Kalba. Tauta. Valstybė. [Language. Nation. State] Vilnius: Vilniaus universyteto leidykla. 2019, 292 p.

Doctoral student Monika Bogdzevič participates in the project Mother. Bread. Earth. Analysis of Concepts Based on Cognitive Definition Method. Coordinator - Prof. Irena Smetonienė. 2019–2020.

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

Warsaw University (Poland)
Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland)
Jagiellonian University (Poland)
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin (Poland)
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń (Poland)
Humboldt Universitӓt zu Berlin (Germany)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Kristina Rutkovska –

Assoc. Prof. Miroslav Davlevič –

Assoc. Prof. Viktorija Ušinskienė –

Assoc. Prof. Irena Fedorovič –

Assist. Regina Jakubėnas –

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Centre for Polish Studies (M. Davlevič, I. Fedorovič, K. Geben, R. Jakubėnas, K. Rutkovska, V. Ušinskienė) together with the Internet portal „Znad Wiliiˮ created a series of educational programs Gramatyczne Poniedziałki (about 20), https://zw.lt/tag/gramatyczne-poniedzialki/.

CENTRE FOR SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7235, 268 7234
e-mail:
e-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė

STAFF

Professors: Dr. Saulius Pivoras (part-time), Dr. Loreta Vaicekauskienė.
Associate professors: Dr. Aurelija Mickūnaitė-Griškevičienė (until April 2019), Dr. Erika Sausverde, Dr. Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė.
Assistants: Dr. Rasa Baranauskienė, Dr. Atėnė Mendelytė (since September 2019), Dr. Birutė Spraunienė, Dr. Giedrius Tamaševičius, Dr. Vuk Vukotič (part-time), Jūratė Kumetaitienė (part-time)
Junior assistants: Asta Laugalienė (part-time); Eglė Jankauskaitė, Daina Urbonaitė (both part-time, since September 2019).
Lecturers: Dr. Noémi Bulla (since September 2019), Jim Degrenius (till September 2019), Mats Hjortfors (since September 2019), Vibeke Groven, Sirkka S. Ojaniemi, Emil Slott, Alma Braškytė, Rima Ciburevkinaitė, Ramunė Dambrauskaitė-Muralienė, Eglė Išganaitytė, Karin Karčiauskienė, Elžbieta Kmitaitė, Agnietė Merkliopaitė, Jurgita Petronytė, Agnė Petrauskaitė; Mikael Schultz Rasmussen (all part-time).
Doctoral students: Dalia Pinkevičienė, Rima Palubinskienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Contrastive, General, Scandinavian and Finno-Ugrian linguistics
Language contacts, lexicography
Sociolinguistics and language ideologies
Grammar of Modern Scandinavian and Lithuanian languages
Studies in modern Scandinavian literature
Old Norse studies
Film studies
Lithuanian-Scandinavian historical and cultural contacts

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Studies in the Societies, Languages and Cultures of Northern and Central Europe. Coordinated by Dr. Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė.

Main publications:

Mendelyte, A. Cracking the Beckettian Profounds of Mind in Endgame with Game Theory. Rüdiger Ahrens, Florian Kläger, Klaus Stierstorfer (Eds.), Symbolism 2019: Special Focus: Beyond Mind. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. 2019, 73–92. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110634952-004.

Mendelyte, A. Thomas Ligotti’s bungalow universe and the transversal aesthetics of the weird. Horror Studies. 2019, vol. 10(1): 105–122.
Vaicekauskienė, L. Driving Forces behind Language Change. Does Danish Theory Hold up in Lithuania? Scandinavistica Vilnensis. 2019, no. 14: 241–72,  https://doi.org/10.15388/ScandinavisticaVilnensis.2019.12

Grammar and Semantics. Coordinated by Prof. Habil. Dr. Axel Holvoet.

Main publication:

Holvoet, A., Spraunienė, B., Laugalienė, A. Some Implications for Ērika: Implicatives in Danish, Finnish and Lithuanian. Shaping the Rings of the Scandinavian Fellowship. Festschrift in Honour of Ērika Sausverde. Eds. Ieva Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė and Loreta Vaicekauskienė. Scandinavistica Vilnensis. 2019, no. 14: 215–40, https://doi.org/10.15388/ScandinavisticaVilnensis.2019.11.

Dr. Birutė Spraunienė and Assistant, PhD student Asta Laugalienė participate in the project The Baltic Verb: Grams, Categories and Domain led by Prof. Habil. Dr. A. Holvoet, MTEP 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0071.

Main publications:

Holvoet, A., Daugavet, A., Spraunienė, B., Laugalienė, A. The agentive construction in Baltic and Fennic. Minor Grams in Baltic, Slavonic and Fennic = BalticLinguistics. 2019, vol.10, 195–236. doi: 10.32798/bl.364

Nau, N., Kozhanov, K., Lindström, L., Laugalienė, A., Brudzyński, P. Pseudocoordination with ‘take’ in Baltic and its neighbours. Minor Grams in Baltic, Slavonic and Fennic = Baltic Linguistics. 2019, vol.10, 237–306. doi: 10.32798/bl.365

Other projects

Lithuanian Exile in Iceland: Explorations of Teodoras Bieliackinas’ (1907–1947) Creative Legacy. Conducted by Dr. I. Steponaviūtė-Aleksiejūnienė under the National Lithuanian Studies Development Programme for 2016–2024.

Main publication:

Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė, I. Dreaming the Hammer Back: On Teodoras Bieliackinas’s Translation of Þrymskviða. Scandinavistica Vilnensis. 2019, no. 14: 61–85. https://doi.org/10.15388/Scandinavistica Vilnensis.2019.4.

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

The Office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Lithuania
Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (DIKU)
The Swedish Institute (SI)
Ministry of Higher Education and Science (UFM) (Denmark)
Finnish National Agency for Education (Finland)
Departments of Scandinavian (Nordic) Studies and related studies at (but not limited to):
Copenhagen University, Stockholm University, Oslo University, Bergen University, Aarhus University, Budapest University, Prague University, Humboldt Universitӓt zu Berlin , Poznan University, Gdansk University

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Loreta Vaicekauskienė –

Dr. Rasa Baranauskienė–

Dr. A. Mendelytė–

  • member of Örebro University researchers’ network “Film och visuell kommunikation”.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erika Sausverde –

Dr. Birutė Spraunienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė –

Dr. Giedrius Tamaševičius –

Prof. Dr. Loreta Vaicekauskienė –

  • advisory board member for international database Lituanistika at the Research Council of Lithuania;
  • board member of the Association of Applied Linguistics of Lithuania, http://litaka.lt/en/;
  • editorial board member of the journal Taikomoji kalbotyra (Applied Linguistics), www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt;
  • member of EATAW (European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing), http://www.eataw.eu/home.html;
  • member of IAWE (International Association for World Englishes), http://www.iaweworks.org/;
  • member of an international research network SLICE (Standard Language Ideology in Contemporary Europe), http://lanchart.hum.ku.dk/research/slice/.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

Prof. Loreta Vaicekauskienė

 

 

INSTITUTE FOR LITERARY, CULTURAL AND TRANSLATION STUDIES

5 Universiteto, LT–01513 Vilnius
E-mail:

Director – Prof. Dr. Nijolė Maskaliūnienė

DEPARTMENT OF LITHUANIAN LITERATURE

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 72 16
E-mail:

Head – Prof. Dr. Brigita Speičytė

STAFF

Professors: Dr. Viktorija Daujotytė-Pakerienė (emerita), Dr. Dainra Pociūtė, Dr. Brigita Speičytė.
Associate professors: Dr. Dalia Čiočytė, Dr. Darius Kuolys, Dr. Audinga Peluritytė-Tikuišienė, Dr. Regimantas Tamošaitis, Dr. Rita Tūtlytė.
Assistant professors: Dr. Neringa Klišienė, Dr. Saulė Matulevičienė (part-time).
Doctoral students: Eleonora Buožytė, Monika Andrulytė (since October 01, 2019), Gintarė Petuchovaitė-Majauskė (academic leave), Aleksandra Strelcova-Kelpšė (academic leave).

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Lithuanian Literature and Intercultural Research. Prof. Dainora Pociūtė, Prof. Brigita Speičytė. 2017–2022.

The members of Department carried out research in contemporary, modern and early modern Lithuanian literature and prepared 4 articles, 2 academic reviews, 2 publications of the academic sources, volume 61(1) of the academic journal Literatūra [Literature], dealing with literary theology, literary and religious culture and the literary expressions of cultural memory. In 2019, members of the Department delivered 9 presentations at the national and international conferences in Lithuania, Estonia, and United Kingdom, and 9 presentations in academic seminars and dicussions in Lithuania.

Main publications:

Speičytė, B. Maironio Pavasario balsai: lyrikos rinkinys. Maironio balsai: kūryba, veikla, atmintis [Maironis’s „Pavasario balsai“: Selected Poems. Maironis’s Voices: Creative Works, Activities, Memory. A multi-authored monograph]. Comp. by Manfredas Žvirgždas. 2019, 29–141.

Speičytė, B. Vinco Krėvės agonas [Vincas Krėvė’s Agon]. Colloquia. 2019, vol. 43: 97–126.

Pociūtė, D. Eterodossia e medicina nella prima età moderna. I «medici ariani» alla corte di Stefano Báthory [Heterodoxy and Medicine in the Early Modern Times: “Arian Physicians” at the Court of Stephen Bathory]. Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo. 2019, vol. 16(1): 37–62.

National and International Research Projects

Literatura w kręgu unijnych zbliżeń. W 450. rocznicę Unii Lubelskiej [Literature in the Context of Rapprochement in the Union of Lublin. On the 450th Anniversary of the Union of Lublin], conducted by University of Rzeszów (Poland), Institute of Polish Philology (participant Assoc. Prof. Dalia Čiočytė, 2019).

Main publication:

Čiočytė, D. Interpretacja politycznej agresji w dramacie Mariusa Ivaškevičiusa Mistrz [Interpretation of the Political Agression in Marius Ivaškevičius’s drama Mistr]. Tematy i konteksty. 2019, vol. 9(14): 418–426.

Research Council of Lithuania.

Academic Communication and Migration: University of Padua and Lithuania (in the 16th Century). (Prof. D. Pociūtė. Nr. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-14-0013; 2019).
Under the Project the professor did research in the archives of the University of Padua (Italija) and in the State Archives of Venice.

Main publication:

Pociūtė, D. Nauja monografija apie Bernardiną Ochiną ir ankstyvąjį Italijos evangelizmą [recenzija: Michele Camaioni. Il Vangelo e L’Anticristo: Bernardino Ochino tra francescanesimo ed eresia (1487–1547)]. Istituto italiano per gli studi storici di Napoli. Bologna: Società Editrice il Mulino, 2018. 601 p.]. Literatūra. 2019, vol. 61(1): 106–110.

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Viktorija Daujotytė (emerita) –

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

Prof. Dr. Dainora Pociūtė –

  • editor-in-Chief of the publication series Monumenta Reformationis Lithuanicae;
  • editorial board member of the journal Literatūra (Literature).

Prof. Dr. Brigita Speičytė –

  • editorial board member of the journal Colloquia;
  • member of the association “Lituanistų sambūris” (“Assembly of Lithuanian Philologists”).
  • organising committee member of the national conference Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas ir Bronius Krivickas: likiminiai kartos pasirinkimai [Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas and Bronius Krivickas: The Choices and Destinies of the Generation]. (Vilnius university, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vytautas Magnus University).

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Darius Kuolys –

  • editorial board member of the journal Senoji Lietuvos literatūra (Early Modern Lithuanian Literature);
  • academic council member of The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences;
  • executive committee member of the association “Lituanistų sambūris” (“Assembly of Lithuanian Philologists”);
  • organising committee member of the 16th World Symposium of Lithuanian Science and Art;
  • programme committee member of the annual conference of the Santara-Šviesa Association.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Saulė Matulevičienė –

  • the organiser of the academic seminar „Donato Saukos darbai: savitumas ir vertė“, dedicated to the legacy of prof. D. Sauka (Vilnius university, Faculty of Philology, Institute for Literary, Cultural and Translation Studies).

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Audinga Peluritytė-Tikuišienė –

  • member of Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association (EKADEL);
  • member of Lithuanian Writer Union;
  • member of jury of the European Union Prize for Literature.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Regimantas Tamošaitis –

  • editorial board member of the literary journal of the Lithuanian literature and criticism Metai (Years);
  • member of Lithuanian Writer Union;
  • diploma examiner and Second Native Speaker, IBIS – International Baccalaureate, Cardiff, Wells, UK.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rita Tūtlytė –

  • member of the committee for assessment and competition of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore;
  • member of juries of the Lithuanian Academy of Science Justinas Marcinkevičius’ Prize for Literature and of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore prof. Algis Kalėda’s Prize (for research and translation);
  • organising committee member of the national conference Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas ir Bronius Krivickas: likiminiai kartos pasirinkimai [Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas and Bronius Krivickas: The Choices and Destinies of the Generation]. (Vilnius university, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vytautas Magnus University).

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Peluritytė-Tikuišienė, A. History in Contemporary Lithuanian Literature. Current State of Literary Theory, Research and Criticism in (Non-‟Centric”) National Cultures. 13th International Conference of the EACLE [Estonian Association of Comparative Literature and Theatrical Studies of the University of Tartu]; September 29–October 2, University of Tartu, Estonia.
  • Speičytė, B. Canon alternatives in anthology: choices of representative texts. Canon? Practice? Commodity? The past, present and future of the literary anthology. UK, Queen Mary, University of London, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, June 14–15, 2019.

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. Nijolė Burkšaitienė, Dr. Jonė Grigaliūnienė, Dr. Nijolė Maskaliūnienė.
Associate professor: Dr. Liucija Černiuvienė.
Assistant professors: Dr. Dalia Mankauskienė, Dr. Rimas Užgiris.
Lecturers: Dr. Rasa Klioštoraitytė, Alina Dailidėnaitė (part-time), Rasa Darbutaitė (part-time), Elizabeta Khtiterer (part-time), Žygimantas Pekūnas, Neringa Terleckaitė (part-time). Agnė Zolubienė, Daina Valentinavičienė.
Research fellow: Dr. Artūras Ratkus.
Doctoral student: Ingrida 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 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

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

In 2019, the academic staff of the Department wrote articles, participated at conferences on literary translation, translation theory and translation training methodology (gave 13 presentations at different international conferences). The Department publishes a research journal Vertimo studijos (Translation Studies). In 2019, its volume 12 was published containing 12 articles on different aspects of Translation Studies, https://www.journals.vu.lt/vertimo-studijos/issue/current.

Main publications:

Černiuvienė, L., Jakutytė, R. Lietuviškasis Michelis Houellebecq’as: vertimo paradoksai (Michel Houellebecq in Lithuanian: The Paradoxes of Translation). Literatūra. 2019, vol. 61(4): 122–137, doi: https://doi.org/10.15388/Litera.2019.4.9.

Grigaliūnienė, J. Tekstynai ir vertimai. Tekstynų naudojimas verčiant – vis dar akademinė prabanga? [Corpora and Translation. Are Corpora Still an Academic Luxury?] Vertimo studijos. 2019, vol.12: 22–36, doi: https://doi.org/10.15388/VertStud.2019.2.

Pekūnas, Ž. Teksto kaip vaizdo perteikimas Arto Spiegelmano grafinio romano MAUS vertime į lietuvių kalbą [Text as Image: A Case Study of the Translation of Art Spiegelman’s Graphic Novel MAUS]. Vertimo studijos. 2019, vol.12: 100–116, https://doi.org/10.15388/VertStud.2019.2.7.

Studies in the Bible Translation. Dr. A. Ratkus.

The researcher investigates the structure and properties of Gothic, which come from the Gothic translation of the New Testament from Greek. A comparison of the Gothic Bible and different versions of the Greek New Testament gives a taxonomy of structural and linguistic differences. Studies in the Gothic Bible translation have already yielded a number of valuable findings.

Main publication:

Ratkus, A. The Stylistic Uses of Gothic Passive Constructions. Vertimo studijos. 2019, vol. 12: 117–138, https://doi.org/10.15388/VertStud.2019.2.8.

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

University of Leeds, Centre of Translation and Interpreting Studies (United Kingdom)
University College London (United Kingdom)
University of Heidelberg (Germany)
ISIT, Paris (France)
University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic)
Aristotle University of Tsesaloniki (Greece)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. Nijolė Burkšaitienė –

Prof. Dr. Jonė Grigaliūnienė –

Prof. Dr. Nijolė Maskaliūnienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Liucija Černiuvienė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators, www.llvs.lt/;
  • expert member of the panel for the Heronymus prize for best translators organised by Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators.

Dr. Rasa Klioštoraitytė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators, www.llvs.lt/;
  • expert member of the panel for the Heronymus prize for best translators organised by Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators;
  • expert member of the panel for the Dominykas Urbas prize for best translators organised by Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators.

Dr. Artūras Ratkus –

  • editorial board member of the journal Vertimo studijos (Translation Studies), www.vsk.flf.vu.lt/Vertimo studijos/.

Dr. Dalia Mankauskienė –

  • member of the European Society of Translation Studies, www.est-translation.org.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Burkšaitienė, N. Understanding university students’ self-assessment of their ESP project work. Envisioning the future in academic and professional languages: emerging trends in teaching and research: XVIII AELFE Conference, June 20–21, 2019. University of Navara, Pamplona, Spain, https://www.unav.edu/documents/2832169/18682320/book-of-abstracts.pdf.
  • Klioštoraitytė, R. La letteratura italiana in Lituania e in lituano [Italian Literature in Lithuania: translations into Lithuanian]. International conference La cultura italiana nel baltico: storie, relazioni, approcci. University of Latvia, Riga, June 5, 2019.
  • Maskaliūnienė, N. Translation of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) in the diaspora and in Lithuania: ideological differences. EST world congress Living Translation, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, September 9–13, 2019,
    https://icmme2019.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/icmme_19_03.pdf.
  • Ratkus, A. Definiteness as periphrasis, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 25, May 2019, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, https://glac2019.weebly.com.
  • Ratkus, A. The adnominal syntax of possessives in Gothic, Workshop on Historical Germanic Syntax. University of Southern Denmark, Odense. Denmark.

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Assoc. Prof. Liucija Černiuvienė and Dr. Rasa Klioštoraitytė were expert members of the panel for the evaluation of film translations in the Cinema Spring festival 2019;
  • Dr. Rasa Klioštoraitytė is an expert of the Lithuanian Council for Culture;
  • Prof. Nijolė Maskaliūnienė is a member of the Commission for the preparation of the Lithuanian Style Guide for translators at EU institutions (under the State Lithuanian Language Commission);
  • Prof. Nijolė Maskaliūnienė worked as member of a group of experts (chaired by Inesa Šeškauskienė) to draft a national regulation of study programmes in translation by the Lithuanian Centre for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Members of the Department were actively involved in different research dissemination activities: organizing events for translator trainers, courses for translators, workshops on translation from English, German, French and Italian into Lithuanian as well as lectures on translation theory to the high school teachers of Lithuania (organized by Agnė Zolubienė, April, 2019), delivered seminars to film translators under a request of the Association of Lithuanian Literary Translators.
  • Liucija Černiuvienė gave a talk on cultural aspects of film translation from French at the National M. Mažvydas library (January 17, 2019).
  • Liucija Černiuvienė and Rasa Klioštoraitytė conducted seminars on translation issues for beginning translators (January 15–16; November 9, 16).
  • Daina Valentinavičienė participated in the project aiming to pesent Czech writers to the Lithuanian audience by translating their biographies for Wikipedia.

A. J. GREIMAS CENTRE FOR SEMIOTICS AND LITERARY THEORY

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7161
E-mail:

Head – Prof. Dr. Arūnas Sverdiolas

STAFF

Professors: Habil. Dr. Kęstutis Nastopka, Dr. Arūnas Sverdiolas, Dr. Paulius Subačius, Dr. Irina Melnikova.
Associate professors: Dr. Birutė Meržvinskytė, Dr. Nijolė Keršytė.
Assistants: Dr. Jurga Katkuvienė, Dr. Jūratė Levina, Dr. Paulius Jevsejevas.
Doctoral students: Rūta Lazauskaitė, Dmitrij Gluščevskij, Austėja Oržekauskienė, Giedrė Ivanova, Aušra Kundrotaitė.

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 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Semiotics and Humanities. Prof. Dr. A. Sverdiolas. 2018–2023.

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

Main publications:

Levina, J. Trys Greimo estetikos [Greimas’s Three Aesthetics]. Colloquia. 2019, vol. 42: 113–134.

Nastopka, K. Le sémioticien avant la lettre (essais littéraires de Greimas en lithuanien). Greimas aujourd’hui : l’avenir de la structure : Actes de congrès de l’Association Française de Sémiotique 2017, June 2019, 112–117. Internet access, http://afsemio.fr/publications/greimas-aujourdhui-lavenir-de-la-structure-actes-du-congres-de-lafs-2017/.

Meržvinskytė, B. Mitas kaip žinojimo forma A.J. Greimo semiotikoje [Myth as a Form of Knowing in Greimas’s Semiotics]. Literatūra. 2019, vol. 61(2): 125–132, doi: https://doi.org/10.15388/Litera.2019.2.9.

National Research Projects

Supported by the Research Council of Lithuania

Algirdas Julien Greimas’s Selected Journalism. Researcher and project coordinator Dr. J. Levina.

The project builds on previous research on Greimas’s Lithuanian heritage and aims to complete an early book project of Greimas’s, its outline found among his manuscripts held at the Vilnius University Library Manuscript Department. Designed around 1960, the selection includes Greimas’s published and unpublished essays from 1947–1959 and, as a whole, foregrounds Greimas’s original notion of the human being and culture, here presented in a journalistic style addressing a wide educated audience. This scholarly edition of Greimas’s early, pre-semiotic journalism restores the authorial wording in many of his widely known essays, previously published with significant editorial interventions, provides full descriptions on the sources and procedures of editing, and supplies necessary contextual comments.

Main publication:

Greimas, A. J. Apie viską ir nieką. Žmogus, visuomenė, kultūra [Of All and Nothing: Individual, Society, Culture]. Comp. by Jūratė Levina. 2019, Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla.

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

Maironis was proclaimed the father of modern Lithuanian literature already in his lifetime. The 1st and 5th authorial editions of “The Voices of Spring” are separated by thousands of textual (linguistic and bibliographic code) variants, which include all layers of spelling, punctuation, morphology, vocabulary and syntactical units, figurative expression and versification, graphic layout and book design. 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.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

Melnikova, I. Spatial Memory in/of Film at the international conference Place of Memory and Memory of Place on June 22–23, 2019. St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK.

Melnikova, I. Framing ‘Synaesthetic’ Desire in/of Film: Luca Guadagnino’s Case. The Picturesque: Visual Pleasure and Intermediality in-between Contemporary Cinema, Art and Digital Culture. September 9–13, 2019. Sapentia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Cluj-Napoca).

Katkuvienė, J. Trajectory of Proprioceptivity in Semiotics of A. J. Greimas. The 14th world congress of semiotics. September 9–13, 2019. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Meržvinskytė, B. Interpretation of History in the Contemporary Lithuanian Essays at the 5th international conference on May 16–17, 2019. University of Wroclaw, Poland.

Subačius, P. Text as a hedgerow: seasons of cultivation. An international symposium Writing and Revision Stages on June 6–7, 2019, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

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 (USA)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Dr. Jurga Katkuvienė –

  • programme committee member of the conference 12th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL-12), 3–5 May, 2019, Lund University, Sweden.

Dr. Jūratė Levina –

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

Prof. Dr. Irina Melnikova –

  • member of European Network for Comparative Literary Studies (REELC/ENCLS), http://encls.net/;
  • member of European Narratology Network (ENN);
  • member of International Society for Intermedial Studies;
  • member of SERCIA.

Prof. Dr. Paulius 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);
  • editorial board member of the journals LCAS Annuals, Studies in Church History, Fontes Historiae Lituaniae.

Prof. Dr. Arūnas Sverdiolas –

  • editorial board member of the journal Athena;
  • editorial board member of the journal Semiotika.

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES

Prof. Paulius V. Subačius –

  • expert of the Lithuanian Council for Culture;
  • expert of the Lithuanian Research Council;
  • expert of the Research Database Lituanistika;
  • expert of the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO;
  • member of the mixed bilateral Government and Church commission for implementation of International Agreements;
  • member of the Permanent bilateral Government and Church commission to solve the issues of cultural heritage;
  • member of the Bilateral Government and Church commission to solve the issues of education.

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Jurga Katkuvienė, Nijolė Keršytė, Jūratė Levina, Kęstutis Nastopka, Arūnas Sverdiolas. „Algirdas Julius Greimas: daugialypis ir vientisas“ [Algirdas Julien Greimas: heterogeneous and one]. Public book launch of Algirdas Julius Greimas: asmuo ir idėjos 2 [Algirdas Julien Greimas: Person and Ideas 2], ed. Arūnas Sverdiolas and Eric Landowski (Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2018), with a presentation of most recent research in Greimas and semiotic studies. Vilnius University Library, February 19, 2019.
  • Sverdiolas, Arūnas. „Knyga visiems ar niekam?“ [The Book for All or for Nobody?], an article published in a periodical Literatūra ir menas, 2019, nr. 18, https://literaturairmenas.lt/publicistika/arunas-sverdiolas-knyga-visiems-ar-niekam.

RESEARCH GROUP FOR STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 72 16
E-mail:

Head – Dr. Aistė Kučinskienė

STAFF

Assistant professors: Dr. Aistė Kučinskienė, Dr. Dovilė Kuzminskaitė, Dr. María Sebastià-Sáez, Dr. Inga Vidugirytė-Pakerienė.
Lecturer: Cristóbal J. Calvente.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

History of the Spanish and Latin American literatures
Comparative literature
Translation studies

Main publications:

Vidugirytė, I. - Видугирите, И. Гоголь и географическое воображение романтизма [Gogol and the geographical imagination of romanticism]. 2019, Москва: Новое литературное обозрение.

Sebastià-Sáez, M. La educación femenina en la Compañía de Jesús y su influencia en la Ifigenia in Áulide de Manuel Lassala. Humanismo y pervivencia del mundo clásico. 2019, vol. V. Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos: Alcañiz.

Sebastià-Sáez, M. Ambrose Philips’ The Distrest Mother: The Myth of Andromache in English (Neo)classicism. Beyond Philology. 2019, vol. 16(2): 109–124.

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assist. Prof. Dr. M. Sebastià-Sáez –

  • fellow of Research Center SEMS (Spanish Early Modern Studies), under direction of Dr. Silvia Stefan, University of Bucharest (Rumania);
  • fellow of Research Group GIRLC (Grup d’Investigació en la Recepció de les Literatures Clàssiques), under direction of Prof. Jordi Redondo, University of Valencia (Spain).

MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES