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Multilingualism in Lithuanian Children’s Folklore

Sustainable Multilingualism
Multilingualism and multiculturalism have always been phenomena present in folklore. Since the last decades of the 20th century, due to changes in lifestyle influenced by factors such as globalization, intense migration, development of social media, and ...
Anglickienė Laimutė, Macijauskaitė-Bonda Jurgita   +1 more
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The Image of the German, the Pole, the Latvian, and the Lithuanian in Lithuanian and Latvian Folklore

Folklore (Estonia), 2021
In multi-ethnic societies, one way in which ethnicity manifests itself is in classifying people according to their ethnic origin. Such classification is based on stereotyping and is typically achieved by emphasizing certain common characteristics rather than individual particularities. Both lived experience and folklore corroborate the fact that ethnic
Antra Kļavinska
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Folklore Activities of the Lithuanian Science Society: Utopian Goals or Insightful Ideas?

Folklore (Estonia), 2023
This article deals with two activities of the Lithuanian Science Society (LSS, 1907–1938) and the history of the folklore collections it accumulated. Its members encouraged people to record folk songs, fairytales, stories, riddles, and other forms of folklore, and they tried to gather in one place all the older manuscripts that contained folklore. This
Žarskienė, Rūta
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Renaissance Historian and Poet Maciej Stryjkowski and His Relationship to Lithuanian Sung Folklore

Roczniki Humanistyczne
Maciej Stryjkowski is a well-known historian and poet of the Renaissance, but one aspect of his work has remained underexplored – namely, his material on Lithuanian folklore. Stryjkowski adapted authentic 16th century Lithuanian military-historical folklore in his historiographical works.
Jankauskas, Vytas
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Ethnobotanical Study of Cultivated Plants in Kaišiadorys District, Lithuania: Possible Trends for New Herbal Based Medicines. [PDF]

Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2019
Background. Despite the growing body of ethnobotanical studies in Europe, publications are scarce in Lithuania. Ethnobotanical study in Kaišiadorys district is one of the few from this field done in Lithuania. Lithuania is divided into five ethnographic regions, and Kaišiadorys district is an area which borders with the three of them (Aukštaitija ...
Pranskuniene Z, Ratkeviciute K, Simaitiene Z, Pranskunas A, Bernatoniene J, Bernatoniene J.   +5 more
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Children's mythical fears in Lithuanian folklore practices

, 2022
Mythical fears are fears that have mythical shapes of expression and mythological explanation. They can be related to real threats but are not limited to them. Children's mythical fears are a multifaceted phenomenon that encompasses children's psychophysical and social development, mythical thinking and the expression of emotions in culture. Children’s
Džekčioriūtė-Medeišienė, Vita,
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Contemporary Lithuanian musical folklore releases: Widening the experiences

Musicology, 2022
The article reviews the tendencies of contemporary musical folklore releases in Lithuania, focusing on the last five years. Based on scientific and journalistic literature, music, and conversations with authors and label owners, the experiential aspect is explored through different ways of creating and releasing music.
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Prūsijos valdžios aktų vertimo į lietuvių kalbą bylos atodangos: vienos polemikos istorija | On a Dispute over the Translation of Prussian Government Decrees Published in Lithuanian in the Late-18th Century

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2017
The practice of translating government decrees into Lithuanian and publishing them for Lithuanian speakers living in Prussia has been known since the late 16th century.
Žavinta Sidabraitė
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Strangers in Lithuanian folklore

, 2002
This article analyses the specific features of strangers (people of other nations) in Lithuanian folklore. The views of Lithuanians about strangers will be examined as they are reflected in verbal art from the end of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century.
Anglickienė, Laima
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Neighbouring nations in Lithuanian folklore

, 2004
The article analyses the portrayal of neighbouring nations - Germans, Russians, Poles, Byelorussians, and Latvians - in various types and genres of Lithuanian folklore. Main objective is to indicate the reasons, which have influenced the naming of strangers in Lithuanian folklore using one or other motive.
Anglickienė, Laima
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