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HISTORY, PARAHISTORY, IRONY - SPANISH HISTORICAL NOVEL IN THE POSTMODERN TIME (Historie, parahistorie, ironie - spanelsky historicky roman v dobach postmoderny)

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Chalupa J.

World Literature Studies

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2010

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vol. 2 (19)

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issue 4

12-24

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The paper deals with the methods and the strategies used by Spanish authors of the post modern historical novels to relativize the historic Truths. Instead of the proved dogmatic categories, serving as supports of the traditional historical novel for many generations, some authors, as E. Mendoza, J. Eslava Galan or A. Perez-Reverte use original post modern approaches, e.g. the generation of a so-called 'parahistory', an ironical point of view, a tension between the 'classical' form and the 'modern' contents, demythization etc. This is mainly due to their strong scepticism towards the 'great' ideologies presented as recipes for the salvation of the world and mankind. Spanish post modern authors reject the role of the writer as 'the conscience of the nation' and deliberately offer only partial view of the subjective validity. Their efforts result in highly original historical novels in which nothing and nobody are taken quite seriously, yet the texts still maintain a relatively high informative value of the complex and ambiguous human history.

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ADVENTURES FROM HISTORY AS A GAME WITH CONVENTIONS

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Bilik R.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2007

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vol. 54

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issue 3

161-178

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The aim of this article is to show how a text categorised as a part of popular culture bears in a concentrated form the elementary authorial - perceptional conventions on which is based a reader's basic experience with the text. The author presents this problem on one of the key works of the Slovak interwar popular literature: Jozef Niznansky's novel 'Cachticka pani'. The author drew from the work of Frye and Miko about the possibility and necessity of reading a literary text from an archetypal perspective; and the work of Eco and Liba about the structure of a popular literature and mass culture. The article sheds light on the archetypal underpinning of Niznansky's novel and on the inter-textual references within this work to the oldest versions of myths about the search for eternal youth and eternal life, and myths about the search for social justice in a variant pointing to the legend of Janosik. The current article represents a completely new analytical reading of the interwar text in the Slovak literary context. The study: uncovers the novel's inter-textual connections; argues that from a genre point of view it is an adventure novel from history, and not a historical novel; and shows that popular literature can serve as a 'school of reading' given its structure which is created as a game with the conventions between the author and the reader.

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Zázrak rozumění?

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Macurova A., Vankova I.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2006

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vol. 54

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issue 2-3

113-121

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An essay on the relationship between language (mother tongue) and the human subject and its existence. It develops ideas of the Prague School of structural literary analysis (in particular, those of Bohumil Trnka, Vladimir Skalicka, and Jan Mukarovsky), cognitive linguistics, and hermeneutics, employing the concept of cultural competence, including criticism of its state in contemporary Czech society.

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MAREK EIGER - STEFAN NAPIERSKI

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Domagalski J.

Pamiętnik Literacki

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2008

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vol. 99

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issue 2

159-166

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The text is a reconstruction of Marek Eiger's biography - a figure of the famous inter-war industrialist family, owners of 'Portland-Cement' concern. Marek Eiger made his name in the history of Polish literature as Stefan Napierski - an outstanding critic, poet, novelist, aphorist, translator and editor of the excellent bimonthly 'Ateneum'. The artist's biography, marked in many dictionaries and literary encyclopedias by the date of his birth (March 15th, 1899) and death (April 2nd, 1940), and the dates of editions of his books and articles, is here supplemented with pieces of information on his life and individuality of this prematurely and tragically died author.

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'THE BURDEN OF PRESENCE'. COMPLEMENTS TO AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOTIVES OF WRITING OF MARIA KUNCEWICZOWA IN HER LETTERS TO HUSBAND (1944-1958)

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Szalagan A.

Pamiętnik Literacki

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2006

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vol. 97

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issue 4

95-116

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Maria Kuncewiczowa's letters to her husband analysed in the paper constitute an interesting source to penetrate a difficult from many reasons period of her emigration life in England and in the first months of her stay in the USA. The letters in question also facilitate a better comprehension of her tests such as 'The Conspiracy of the Absent', 'The Forester' (to a smaller extent), 'Thank you for the Rose', 'The Olive Grove'. They are also a contribution to the understanding of a writer's situation, who - when emigrated - does not want to stop her literary activities. The last postcards from this collection come from the year 1958 and refer to Kuncewiczowa's first after 1939 stay in Poland. The letters constitute an interesting counterpoint to her autobiographical relations as seen in for example 'Phantoms' or 'Nature', since they show Kuncewiczowa not only as an artist living mostly in a phantom dimension, but a person struggling with a burden of everyday life imposed by a necessity of political choice to live abroad.

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OLD POLISH NEWS STORIES

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Grochowski P.

Pamiętnik Literacki

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2008

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vol. 99

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issue 3

105-124

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The first part of the paper consists of a critical review of the attempts to describe the verse news story to date and its basic genre markers. The considerations presented here lead to the conclusion that the Old Polish news story was a syncretic phenomenon of indistinct borders and encompassed various conventions developed on the grounds of other poetic genres. On the other hand, we observe a peculiar expansion of verse news stories having a great influence on the development of some types of Old Polish occasional poetry, which gave way to the emergence of certain intermediate forms such as panegyric news stories, pasquil news stories, aubade news stories, lament news stories. The second part of the paper brings a typology of news stories based on the criteria of the text composition and the narrative intention. A detailed analysis reveals three basic types of the verse news stories: a) chronicle, in which the informative intention dominates, and where the text is almost entirely filled with narration presenting the events in chronological order and in a relatively detailed way; b) lamentatory-religious, in the foreground having the moralistic intention, and strengthening the receiver in the conviction of religious perception and interpretation of events as a punishment or a reward sent by God; the text's composition is founded on its peculiar fragmentary character and on interspersing the elements of the narration with lamentatory complaints and elaborated propitiatory-devout apostrophes; c) political-propagandist, where the main intention of the narrator is convincing the listener about a specific political conception, and the narration itself is not infrequently of vestigial character and is superseded by numerous commentaries with a marked panegyric, polemic, or satirical element.

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WAYS OF ENCODING STATE OF AFFAIRS RELATIONS: ANTERIORITY, POSTERIORITY, CAUSALITY, PURPOSE AND CONDITIONALITY IN MODERN POLISH LANGUAGE

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Martowicz A.

LingVaria : Półrocznik Wydziału Polonistyki UJ poświęcony zagadnieniom języka i językoznawstwa

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2007

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issue 2(4)

79-88

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There are 7 different ways of encoding the enumerated state of affairs relations in modern Polish: unmarked juxtaposition, marked juxtaposition, coordination, chaining, use of serial verbs, VPs' subordinators, complex and one-word adverbial subordinators. Particular relations differ, however, with respect to the range of ways of encoding available for them. The analysis of both - ways of encoding and the relations between state of affairs they may encode for - reveal their distribution and restrictions of usage.

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Las variantes de prestigio y sus relaciones en Granada

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Vales M.

Linguistica Pragensia

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2011

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vol. 21

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issue 2

88-97

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The variety spoken in Granada (Spain) presents singular features developed due to the late conquest of this territory and also due to the expansion of the city during the second half of the 20th century. The paper deals with the prestige of particular variants, which are typical of the variety of Granada, because this information is important in respect of their evolution process. The study pays particular attention to the relation between the two forms of imperfect subjunctive cantara/cantase and various phonetic phenomena that can be observed in this city. The hypothesis builds on the assumption that the speakers who alternate the two forms of imperfect subjunctive are more conscious of the prestigious forms and for this reason they also use the prestigious variants on the phonetic level.

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IDEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF CYRIL AND METHODIUS TRADITION IN SLOVAK HISTORY (Ideologicke interpretacie cyrilo-metodskej tradicie v slovenskych dejinach)

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Mulik P.

Slavica Slovaca

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2009

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vol. 44

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issue 2

97-105

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The paper is an attempt to describe and explain the tradition of Cyril and Methodius in the arguments of major social structures, representatives of these structures or important figures in Slovak history.

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Teleologie jako jeden ze základních pojmů Pražského lingvistického kroužku?

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Korensky J.

Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)

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2008

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vol. 69

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issue 1-2

44-49

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If we are to understand Prague School Functionalism in the sense of the first paragraph of the Theses presented by the Prague Linguistic Circle to the First Congress of Slavists held in Prague in 1929, teleology becomes a single-word synonym for the dynamic functional structure 'means-aim/purpose/function'. In such a case, it not necessary to view it as one of the basic concepts of the Prague School. However, if we are to understand the issue such that language is above all an immanent structure which is intentionally 'aware' of its movement toward goals, then teleology is one of the basic concepts of the Prague School. The first case represents a question of the relationships 'means-aim/purpose/function', while in the second it is entirely appropriate to speak of goals.

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IS BLACK A COLOUR OF DESPAIR? (POETRY OF PAUL STRAUSS IN THE CONTEXT OF GERMAN, CZECH AND SLOVAK MODERNISM)

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Batorova M.

Slovak Review. A Review of World Literature Research

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2006

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vol. 15

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issue 1

32-45

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The study is concerned with Paul Strauss' poetry which was written in the '30s in German language. It was Strauss' bilingualism that helped him to deal with works of his German and Czech modernist contemporaries. His first collection of poetry 'Die Kanone auf dem Ei' (The Gun on the Egg) was apparently inspired by global and local historical processes. In his second and third collection of poetry called 'Schwarze Verse' (Black Verses) and 'Worte aus der Nacht' (Words from the Night) respectively, the reflection of the world of inner experience became prominent. The fear of mother's death, which haunted him from the time of his childhood, is strongly pronounced. The uneasiness he felt after her death was enhanced by another existential uneasiness - the revelation of his Jewish roots during WWII, although he was already Christianised at that time. The theme of 'Worte aus der Nacht' is the search for a way out of the existential crisis. It is not difficult to determine Paul Strauss' place in the literary context of the '30s. It is possible to use the explanation of the contemporary context proposed in M. Kundera's preface to 'Die Prager Moderne' (Prague Modernism). One is tempted to prove Kundera's theses on Strauss' works. It is also supported by all techniques of the traditional literary comparatistics, including the genetic relations. Similarly to Rilke, in Strauss' poetry one can find the first phase of poetic expression of the aesthetic ideal. Strauss encountered Rilke's work in its final phase, as a whole. In Strauss' times, i. e. between the two World Wars, the status of poetic expression is naturally confronted with a different reality. Rilke's 'Dinggedicht' , which is related to Husserl's phenomenology, is concerned with a new view of looking at the objects of the real world. The central theme of Rilke's relation to fright and beauty can also be seen in the Strauss' poetics. The poetry means mainly a relation to oneself and by the means of it to the world to Paul Strauss, as it does to Rilke and Valery. Strauss registers the outside world of the things through his own inner experience. The motive of death, which is considered essential to Rilke's poetry, is the principal theme in Strauss' poetry, the initial impulse to write. The motive of death is also present in Franz Werfel's works, but not as an existential entity, as part of the speculations about one's existence as is the case with Rilke and Strauss. Strauss is close to Werfel in motives of pain and childhood. One can also find the common themes or motives in Rilke's and Strauss' poetry: death, God, time, loss, pain. Strauss came from Vienna to Prague at the beginning of the '30s (1932-37). He brought with himself a compact bound form, Rilkian 'impressionism' and eflectiveness, Werfelian expressionism. To sum up, one can conclude that Strauss' collections of poetry, on account of their form, language and poetics, definitely belong into the context of the Central European lyrical poetry.

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Word-Order Variability and FSP in Written and Spoken Discourse

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Smolka V.

Linguistica Pragensia

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2011

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vol. 21

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issue 1

14-23

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The article explores the role of word-order as an indicator of the rheme in samples of written and spoken language respectively. The assumption was that this role of word order would be more prominent in written language, where the choice of a particular linear arrangement may be prompted by the need to achieve the effect of end-focus. In spoken discourse the rheme is signalled by prosodic clues, namely by the placement of the intonation nucleus, irrespective of its position in the sentence, rendering word-order a secondary indicator. As a result, the frequency of deviations from the grammatical word-order, e.g. fronting, is lower in spoken discourse. However, the analysis of word-order in spoken discourse is made difficult by irregularity and structural incompleteness.

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From Full-Text Database to Electronic Lexicon and Beyond: The Role of Computers in the Dictionary of Celtic Latin Project

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Harvey A.

Listy filologické (Folia philologica)

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2008

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vol. 131

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issue 3-4

469-491

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At the end of 2005 Brepols published the first constituent volume of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources (DMLCS). The present paper takes a narrative approach to explaining the lexicographical decisions that had to be made in the compilation of the lexicon. It describes how it was that DMLCS processes came to be computerized from the start (not excluding the difficulties), and the methodological differences that this made to the work. It outlines the major advantage of basing a dictionary upon a full-text database (namely the exhaustiveness it offers to the excerpting task), as well as the major challenge it poses (overwhelming the lexicographer with the sheer number of examples offered). It examines how DMLCS attempted to turn the situation to scholarly advantage in defining its objectives. The paper also describes the project's plan to combine the database with an electronic version of the dictionary as a self-interpreting compendium of Celtic Latinity. Finally, it looks at ways in which an electronic lexicon can answer questions that cannot be demanded of a conventional dictionary in book form.

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ANALYSIS OF POLISH VERBS WITH FRAME SEMANTIC METHODOLOGY (Analiza wybranych czasownikow polskich w aparacie ram interpretacyjnych)

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Kieras W.

LingVaria : Półrocznik Wydziału Polonistyki UJ poświęcony zagadnieniom języka i językoznawstwa

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2008

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issue 2(6)

155-166

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The paper presents frame semantics methodology (Fillmore, 1982) applied to semantic description of Polish verbs. Football related verbs were chosen as the research material and were selected from half million words corpus of football match comments. The description was based on the frame semantics methodology (Fillmore, Atkins 1992). As a result, 33 frame elements were distinguished and were used to describe 14 semantic frames grouped in 5 scenes. First two sections of the paper give a brief introduction to frame semantics as well as English electronic dictionary FrameNet and some similar projects. The following sections present syntactic and semantic description of selected verbs. The last section gives an example of lexical unit description.

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WHOSE IS THE 'KNEZJI KAMEN'? ABOUT SLOVENIAN POLITICS OF SYMBOLS

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Falski M.

Pamiętnik Słowiański

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2008

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vol. 58

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issue 1

49-66

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The ceremony of enthronment of the Carinthian princes is one of the rare examples of state tradition in Central Europe. After the disintegration of the Habsburg empire this tradition is reclaimed both by Austrian Carinthians, dominated by German-speaking population, and Slovenians. The latter claim that medieval Carinthia was a predecessor of the contemporary Slavic state, what is an usurpation for the first ones. The 'knezji kamen', or princes' stone, is an ancient monument and a testimony to this ceremony, materializing its symbolic meanings. Austrian-Slovenian conflict about who has the right to use this symbol is considered here in a broader context of the Slovenian national narrative. A discussion of this and other symbols can point some major aspects of Slovanian cultural identity.

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FRIEDERICKE MAYROCKER - A TEXTUALISED BIOGRAPHY OF A POETESS

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Pascu E.

Slovak Review. A Review of World Literature Research

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2007

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vol. 16

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issue 2

94-104

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The biography of the contemporary Austrian writer Friedericke Mayrocker is woven in her whole oeuvre. Thus her poems trace stations of her existence and the prose marks deep remembrances, mingled with daily events. Specific for the writing technique is the 'collage', namely the intermingling of the so called 'taboo' papers - notes, letters, quotations, books, etc. The ideas and dreams, associations and sentiments are transformed in literary compositions describing metaphoric landscapes. A central topos represents Vienna, which F. Mayrocker considers to be a 'city of writing' (Schreibstadt) where she feels being at home especially due to the German language - language being her home.

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Reflexe činnosti Kanceláře Slovníku jazyka českého v časopise Naše řeč

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Uhlirova L.

Naše řeč (Our Speech)

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2011

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vol. 94

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issue 1

1-13

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This article presents a number of historiographic and lexicographic facts in order to recall how the journal Nase rec (Our Speech) looked during the first half of the 20th century, what was published in it, and, in particular, how closely it was tied to the Czech Dictionary Office during the period when extensive lexical data were collected and the nine-volume Prirucni slovnik jazyka ceskeho (Desk Dictionary of Czech) was prepared and published.

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Konjunktiv v nepřímé řeči v němčině: vývoj názorů v německé lingvistice

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Koutova M.

Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)

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2011

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vol. 93

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issue 2

81-94

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The article deals with the development of the views on the use of the subjunctive mood in indirect speech in German presented in German specialist literature from the 1950s of the 20th century until the present. The development of the views is characterised on the basis of seven editions of the renowned German grammar Duden and other grammars, monographs and articles published in Germany. Until the 1980s, German grammars were dominated by the prescriptive conception, which imposed normative rules for the use of the subjunctive in indirect speech. The main features of this traditional conception included the compulsoriness of the subjunctive in indirect speech and the thesis about the expression of the speaker's attitude by means of different moods. Since the 1970s, a new conception, based on language usage, has gradually been gaining ground; this distinguishes between the use of the subjunctive and the indicative in both written and spoken language and in different text types and casts doubt on the thesis of the speaker's attitude.

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THE SLOVAK COMPARATIVIST, DIONYZ DURISIN, AND HIS INTERNATIONAL RECEPTION

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Galik M.

World Literature Studies

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2009

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vol. 1(18)

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issue 1

6-13

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The paper deals with the work of Dionyz Durisin (1929-1997) and his response in world literature science. Durisin was one of the best Slovak literature theorists and world well known comparativist. Many of his works were translated into foreign languages, including Chinese and Japanese. They motivated the inter-literary research in whole Europe as well as in the USA, Canada, Latin America, China and Japan. In 1970 Durisin brought in his conception on the 6-th International congress AILC in Bordeaux. His works were known and cited also by Rene Wellek, Douwe W. Fokkema and Ulrich Weisstein. W. Fokkema pointed out inventiveness and originality of his conception. Earl Minner mentioned his significant contribution to the discussion on the notion of the influence. The others noticed the relation of his thought with translation research as well as with the Israeli school of poly-systems theory. In the 80s Durisin elaborated theory of inter-literary communities and in the last time he dealt with the notion of literary centrism and world literature.

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SEMANTICS OF VERBO-NOMINAL LEXICAL UNITS AND THEIR ACTUALISATION

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Wickleinova M.

Slovenská reč (Slovak Language)

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2008

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vol. 73

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issue 6

344-351

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Verbo-nominal lexical units consist of two elements - functional verb (operator) and abstract noun as a semantic nucleus (lexificator). Operator can function as a predicate of a sentence only in connection with 'lexificator'. It represents mean of actualisation. Functional verb can carry more semantic features and by its means we can make lexical transformations such as causation, conversion, intensification, etc. Another mean of actualisation is attribute related to abstract noun which adds semantic features to the whole lexical unit. Except mentioned operations it can be ability, probability, prohibition, condition, cause etc.

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