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ABSTRACT Cremation became the dominant funerary practice in the Middle Danube Region during the Roman Period (RP) (1st–4th century) and reappeared in the Early Medieval Ages (EMA) (6th/7th–8th century). This study aims to reconstruct differences in cremation conditions from the Gbely‐Kojatín site (Slovakia, RP and EMA) and the Přítluky site (Czech ...
Katarína Hladíková +4 more
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“History is a Trap that is Hard to Escape”. Memoirs of V. I. Kosik in the Form of an Interview
A prominent Russian expert in Balkan history Doctor of Historical Sciences Viktor Ivanovich Kosik (born in 1944) talks about his life and career at the request of the editors of the magazine “Slavic World in the Third Millennium”.
Victor I. Kosik +2 more
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Semiospheric transitions: A key to modelling translation
Lotman’s contribution to semiotic theory, anthroposemiotics, the study of artistic texts and defining the relationship between language and culture represent some of the most powerful work produced within the Tartu–Moscow School of Semiotics.
Edna Andrews, Elena Maksimova
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The Pan‐Orthodox Celebration of the 1600th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 1925
Abstract This article explores the attempts to organize a Pan‐Orthodox Council in the years following the First World War that could gather in 1925 on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. While some of these efforts were remarkably ambitious, and although they were not always feasible or fully realized, they
Natallia Vasilevich
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Polish-Lithuanian contrastive studies conducted by the Department of Semantics of the Institute of Slavic Studies of The Polish Academy of Science The dissertation discusses the research area of the Lithuanian-Polish theoretical contrastive studies ...
Danuta Roszko, Roman Roszko
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Abstract Selective admissions at universities in the United Kingdom aim to ensure a baseline language competence, yet, despite persistent achievement disparities across linguistic backgrounds, systematic comparisons of linguistic skills underpinning academic success remain rare.
Justyna Mackiewicz, Danijela Trenkic
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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The article examines the anthroponyms and toponyms found on gravestone inscriptions at cemeteries in the areas of concentrated settlement of national minorities in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina — namely, Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs, and Italians.
Gleb Petrovich Pilipenko +1 more
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Differences in the formalization of the semantic category of definiteness / indefiniteness
Differences in the formalization of the semantic category of definiteness / indefiniteness Basing on theoretical contrastive studies guidelines, the article defines the semantic category of definiteness/indefiniteness where two basic opposition ...
Danuta Roszko, Roman Roszko
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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