Drawing its methodological inspiration from A History of New Modernism. Czech Literature, 1905–1923 (2010), this study aims to present the development of Czech literature over the course of a single year: 1929. The objective, ...

The present article describes the accentual system of the verbs featuring the thematic vowel -i- in the late 16th-century Chronograph from the E. V. Barsov collection, held in the State Historical Museum in Moscow, catalogue ...

The topic of substantive diminutives in Upper Sorbian has already been written about, notably in the recently published monograph by Małgorzata Milewska-St- awiany Stawiany “Górnołużyckie deminutywa w systemie językowym ...

The aim of this contribution is to compare diminutives in Slovak and German language. The introduction summarizes theoretical information on methods of creation of Slovak and German diminutives and their use. The second ...

Multilingual European community requires certain efficient translation methods. Translation can be simplified by standardization of texts, but then the texts resulting from the translation process seem to be somewhat ...

The Introductory article to the second part of the Special Issue dedicated to Anna Wierzbicka’s anniversary focuses on her research in the domain of language and culture interchange. It overviews the fundamental concepts ...

This introduction to the Special Issue summarises Anna Wierzbicka’s contribution to the linguistic study of meaning. It presents the foundations of the approach known as the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) developed ...

The paper focuses on interpretation of Biblical history in a lesser-known treatise written by Archpriest Avvakum entitled Sniskanie i sobranie o Bozhestve i o tvari. The main issues addressed in the paper are the sources ...

The article deals with contemporary tendencies of Linguodidactics. The author shows relevance of the anthropocentric approach to the description and teaching of the Russian Language using the Russian word-formation as an example.

This article deals with cognitive aspects of artistic translation based on the example of translations of Herta Müller’s oeuvre into Polish and Czech. The reader of Herta Müller’s novels in translation seeks to get to know ...