A r t i c l e s

KRUPA, Viktor: The Reality of Acoustic Icons in Vocabulary, p. 3
MÚCKA, Ján: The Viet-Muong Linguistic Group and its Lexical-Morphologic Characteristic, p. 16
RÁCOVÁ, Anna: On Glutination in Bengali Short Story, p. 25
MODINI, Paul: The Original Role of the Bantu Applicative Extension, p. 35
GÁLIK, Marián: Studies in Modern Chinese Intellectual History: VI. Young Bing Xin (1919-1923), p. 41
CELNAROVÁ, Xénia: The Interliterary Community of Turkic Nations within the Context of Islamic Culture, p. 61
BALÁZS, Judit: The Lack of Perspective and its Product: Pseudo-Urbanization in Black Africa, p. 71
BRÜNE, Stefan: New Economic Policies and Rural Development Options. Ethiopia in the 90s, p. 78
LAYIWOLA, Dele: Aspect of Theatrical Circularity in Wale Ogunyemi's Dramaturgy, p. 89

B o o k R e v i e w s

LUCY, John A.: Language Diversity and Thought. A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis. By Viktor Krupa, p. 96
HREBÍCEK, L.: Text in Communication: Supra-Sentence Structures. By Ján Horecký, p. 98
BRUNO, Sabine- SCHADE, Anette: Fiji, Samoa, Tonga. By Viktor Krupa, p. 100
XXIII. Deutscher Orientalistentag vom 16. bis 20. September 1985 in Würzbug. XXIV. Deutscher Orientalistentag vom 26. Bis 30. Septemsber 1988 in Köln. Ausgewählte Vorträge. Von Marián Gálik, p. 102
Yazyk ksingmul. Materialy sovetsko-vyetnamskoi lingvisticheskoi ekspeditsii 1979 goda. By Ján Múcka, p. 105
DEBON, Günther: Oscar Wilde und der Taoismus. By Marián Gálik, p. 106
HIJIYA-KIRSCHNEREIT, Irmela: Was heißt: Japanische Literatur verstehen? Zur modernen japanischen Literatur und Literaturkritik. By Marián Gálik, p. 107
BAUER, Wolfgang - CHANG PENG – LACKNER, Michael (Eds.): Das chinesische Deutschlandbild der Gegenwart. By Marián Gálik, p. 110

ABSTRACTS

THE REALITY OF ACOUSTIC ICONS IN VOCABULARY

Viktor KRUPA,
Bratislava

Language is not completely free of iconicity. Iconic signs create a double link with the sources of our perception and have a considerable emotional load.

THE VIET-MUONG LINGUISTIC GROUP AND ITS LEXICAL- MORPHOLOGIC CHARACTERISTIC

Ján MÚCKA,
Bratislava

A characteristic is given of the Viet-Muong language group within Austro-Asian stock, about which various contradictory hypotheses still exist even today.

ON GLUTINATION IN BENGALI SHORT STORY

Anna RÁCOVÁ,
Bratislava

A text is a structured whole organized according to certain rules. The arrangement of text units depends on many text creating factors of objective and subjective nature. A very important role is played by various connecting and uniting means. The act of gradual connecting of particular sentences in text is called glutination. We aim to study the language means, i.e. glutinators, through which the adjacent elementary text units, i.e. utterances, are bound together in the Bengali language, and classify them to find out the degree of glutination which can mark the typological character of text.

THE ORIGINAL ROLE OF THE BANTU APPLICATIVE EXTENSION

Paul MODINI,
Sydney

The semantic contrasts conveyed by the presence vs. absence of the applicative extension in locative sentences in Bantu languages are compared with differences in meaning in Japanese and Hungarian corresponding to differential objective- vs. adverbial-case marking of intransitive verbs' oblique-case complements. The meaning differences, both in Bantu and in Japanese and Hungarian, may be characterized as directedness vs. non-directedness of the verbal action and affectedness vs. non-affectedness of the entity represented by the oblique-case NP. A unified, historical-functional explanation for these Bantu, Japanese and Hungarian contrasts is proposed.

STUDIES IN MODERN CHINESE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: VI. YOUNG BING XIN (1919-1923)

Marián GÁLIK,
Bratislava

The aim of this study is to show the philosophical, religionist and literary development of the modern Chinese woman writer Bing Xin. Especially the impact of the biblical writings and of Rabindranath Tagore on her life, poetry and prose during the May Fourth Movement 1919 is analysed here.

THE INTERLITERARY COMMUNITY OF TURKIC NATIONS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF ISLAMIC CULTURE

Xénia CELNAROVÁ,
Bratislava

In literary-historical research, interliterary communities represent an important intermediary stage between various national literatures and world literature. During the early stage of its development the interliterary community of Turkic nations was determined by several factors, the dominant factor obviously being that of Turkic religious ideology. It determined the centuries-old existence of Turkic literatures within the farmework of a wider community of literatures in the medieval Islamic world. This study intends to point out specific features in the coexistence of Turkic literatures within the context of Islamic culture and simultaneously to outline the preconditions for the shaping of a specific interliterary community of Turkic nations, or nationalities based on the principles of ethnic and linguistic kinship.

THE LACK OF PERSPECTIVE AND ITS PROCUCT: PSEUDO-URBANIZATION IN BLACK AFRICA

Judit BALÁZS,
Budapest

Nowadays we are witnessing the growing globalization of the decisive tasks facing mankind. There is a growing awareness that it is in the interest of the entire world to seek an answer to the issues related to economic and social progress, development, modernization, democracy and human freedoms. This paper is discussing one of the possible solutions of this problem.

NEW ECONOMIC POLICIES AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS. ETHIOPIA IN THE 90s

Stefan BRÜNE,
Osnabrück

After years of low economic growth, preoccupation with natural disaster, crippling costs for internal security and protracted regional wars, Ethiopia remains one of the poorest and „least developed countries“ in the world. From a political and economic perspective the 80s were a lost decade for Ethiopia, as they were indeed for other Sub-Saharan African countries. Conscious of the shortcomings of its economic performance, facing a dramatically changing international environment, and confronted with new uprisings in the North, the government has been reviewing its economic policy.

ASPECT OF THEATRICAL CIRCULARITY IN WALE OGUNYEMI'S DRAMATURGY

Dele LAYIWOLA,
Ibadan

Theatrical circularity must continually evolve their own rules as occasion demands. The inherent pointer to continuous motion in idea and in production may take on carnival dimensions in idea and in the practice of festival dramas. The response and resolution of this conflict in craft has been tackled in African theatrical traditions as the adoption of the total theatrical technique.