Electronic Library of Scientific Literature
Electronic Library of Scientific Literature
Volume 5 / No. 2 / 1996
Marián GÁLIK
Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia
The aim of this article is to point out the impact of the wisdom books of the Bible on three modern Taiwanese women poets and their different response against the background of the Chinese religious and philosophical tradition, their personal upbringing, ideological position and their poetic nature.
pp. 113-131
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Viktor KRUPA
Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia
The employment of natural elements in metaphorizing feelings does not have only an ornamental function. Rather we are confronted here with a parallelism the role of which seems to lie in emphasizing the spontaneity of the feelings and their experiencers' helplessness toward them. Upon the grammatical level it is the dative that corresponds to this function more than any other nominal case.
pp. 132-137
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Ladislav DROZDÍK
Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia
Prestigious Oral Arabic, the oral medium of the present-day Arab intellectual elite, is an unstable and highly variable linguistic entity. The following inquiry aims at providing a tentative clue to the identification and classification of its main varieties by means of formal criteria restricted to the category of case and verbal mood ('icrab).
pp. 138-151
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Kim KYUCHIN _ Jozef ŠTEFÁNIK _ Antonín BYTEL
Department of Czech and Slovak Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign
Studies, 89 Wangsan-ri, Mohyun-myun, Yongin-kun, Kyungki-do, 449_791 Republic
of Korea
The aim of the article is to provide a basic comparison of the Korean with the Slovak and Czech phonological systems from the educational point of view and identify possible problems that the Korean students of Slovak and Czech languages may be confronted with while learning the correct pronunciation of their sounds. It is stated that the absence of certain Slovak and Czech phonemes in Korean phonological system is only of little difficulty for students. More problematic is the case of several independent phonemes in Slovak and Czech which are only phonological variants in Korean and their realization is positionally dependent. There are also difficulties arising from the different character and function of word stress in these three languages.
pp. 152-157
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Viera PAWLIKOVÁ-VILHANOVÁ
Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia
The language situation in East Africa is characterized by the widespread use of Swahili. While both in Tanzania and Kenya Swahili has been systematically promoted in all spheres of everyday life, Uganda has lacked a coherent government policy on language development and the position of Swahili in Uganda has always been very ambiguous. The continued vacillation over language policy and the Luganda/Swahili opposition threatening to carve the country into two major camps of language choice which is characteristic of the Ugandan language situation suggests that the language issue is not likely to be solved in the near future.
pp. 158-170
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Dana DOMIKOVÁ-HASHIMOTO
Hachiken 1, Nishi 4, 1-16-56, Nishi-ku, Sapporo 063, Japan
General literature about Japan, as well as specialized works on visual art history, catalogues of Japanese woodcuts exhibitions, references thereof in the press, and literature in Japanese studies often show uncertainty about the translation and interpretation of the designation "ukiyo-e" _ overseas the perhaps best-known phenomenon of Japanese visual arts. The question of interpretation of the word ukiyo has not been satisfactorily solved in the circles of Japanese experts, either. That is why the author tries to give an account of the content of this word and causes of the regular change of its content in relation to Japanese society development, based upon the results of the research done on it up to now.
pp. 171-182
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SYED SERAJUL ISLAM
Department of Political Science, International Islamic University, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
In the immediate post Second World War period, political developments in two countries of South East Asia, Indonesia and Myanmar (Burma), proceeded along similar lines. The Western style of parliamentary democracy collapsed in the 1950s and consequently, military dominated political systems emerged in the 1960s in both countries. Gradually, however, it seems that the military regime in Indonesia has been far more successful than that of Burma in achieving political and economic developments. The balance sheet of Burmese regime towards political development has been negative. Economically, it has been declared by the United Nations as the least developed country in the world. The Indonesian regime, on the other hand, through authoritarian in many respects, has operated the political system through constitutional means and has achieved remarkable economic progress.
pp. 183-196
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Carol J. RIPHENBURG
22nd Street and Lambert Road, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599, U.S.A.
A new consideration has developed in recent years _ that women are the key to development. The supposition now is that the poorest nations will never grow out of poverty unless women become a more active part of civil society. No country can develop where half its human resources are undervalued or repressed. Without this, a country cannot succeed at population control, the eradication of epidemic diseases, or the conservation of its natural resources.
pp. 197-219
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