A r t i c l e s

GÁLIK, Marián: Cultural Identity and the Intercultural East-West Process: Some Theoretical and Practical Consideratios, p. 113
KRUPA, Viktor: Extralinguistic Basis of the Category of Possessivity, p. 122
MICKOVÁ, Lubica: The Japanese Indirectness Phenomenon, p. 135
BENICKÁ, Jana: Mind or Heart? On Translating the Character Xin [1] in Chinese Buddhist Mahayana Texts into Western Languages, p. 148
DEOPIK, D.V.: New Data on Medieval Vietnam through the Song Sources as a Supplement to the Vietnamese Official Annals, p. 158
SORBY, Karol: The 1952 Uprising in Iraq and Regent's Role in its Crushing (Iraq from al-watba to al-intifada: 1949-1952), p. 166

R e v i e w A r t i c l e s

DROZDÍKOVÁ, Jarmila: Discussion on the Islamic Theology, p. 194
CELNAROVÁ, Xénia: The Turkish Folk Culture in Work of Slovak Scholars, p. 206
DROZDÍKOVÁ, Jarmila: Edward Said in Retrospective, p. 216

B o o k R e v i e w s

BLUM, S.D. and JENSEN, L.M.(Eds): China Off Center. Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom. By Martin Slobodník, p. 221
WITTRICH, Michaela: Der arabische Dielekt von Azex. By Ladislav Drozdík, p. 222
ARNOLD, Dieter: Temples of the Last Pharaohs. By Dušan Magdolen, p. 224
QUIRKE, Stephen: The Cult of Ra. Sun-worship in Ancient Egypt. By Dušan Magdolen,
p. 226

ABSTRACTS

CULTURAL IDENTITY AND THE INTERCULTURAL EAST-WEST PROCESS: SOME THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Marián GÁLIK
Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia

This essay tries to define the cultural identity within the framework of East-West process in the age of contemporary globvalization and presents the plausible methodology of this kind of research.

EXTRALINGUISTIC BASIS OF THE CATEGORY OF POSSESSIVITY

Viktor KRUPA
Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia

The term category of possessivity seems preferable to the term category of possession commonly used in Oceanic studies because it is concerned with an abstract relation between the referent of the head of a construction with the referent of its grammatically dependent complement (of nominal or verbal nature). The possessive relationship may be expressed either in (1) a predicative or in (2) a determinative syntagm. In (1) either a special verb may function, such as English to have, German haben, Slovak mat, or a (usually) collocative construction as Russian u nego jest (literally „with him there is“) or Japanese aru („to be“) or Slovak dialectal je mu („is to him“). In (2) the determinative syntagm, the possessive relationship is expressed either by means of a possessive pronoun or by means of possessive particles (or case affixes). An item may be related to it possessor in several ways, but at least in two ways labeled as contingent and necessary by John Lyons (Lyons 1969: 301). Other linguists use other terms, for example alienable versus inalienable (widespread in descriptions of Polynesian languages), subjective versus objective (e.g.C.Maxwell Churchward 1953), etc.

THE JAPANESE INDIRECTNESS PHENOMENON

Lubica MICKOVÁ
Faculty of Arts of Comenius University, Gondova 2, 818 01 Bratislava, Slovakia

This article focuses on the phenomenon of Japanese indirectness with the aim to summarize reasons for its existence and share several ways of its presence in the communication process.

MIND OR HEART? ON TRANSLATING THE CHARACTER XIN [1] IN CHINESE BUDDHIST MAHAYANA TEXTS INTO WESTERN LANGUAGES

Jana BENICKÁ
Depaartment of the Languages and Cultures of the Countries of East Asia,
Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University, Slovakia

The aim of this article is to shortly examine some implications of the term xin mind:heart, etc. In Chinese Buddhist texts (against the background of the main philosophical implications of Mahayana teachings as such), to show a primary danger of interpreting (or translating) this term (and other terms like essence, principle, One mind, etc.) as entities „inherently existing“, or as independent substances.

NEW DATA ON MEDIEVAL VIETNAM THROUGH THE SONG SOURCES AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE VIETNAMESE OFFICIAL ANNALS

D. V. DEOPIK
Centre for Vietnamese Studies
Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia

This paper deals with „lingvai daida“ (Viet. „Linh ngoai dai dap“) written in 1178 by Zhou Gui-fei, who served as a millitary official („tunpan“) in the southern and southwestern parts of Guangsi, the boundary province in the South of the Song empire, and new data on the Viets inside Guangsi and outside it – in Jiaozhi (Dai Viet). Translations and study of such historical and geografical description of the southern countries and peoples were initiated by Russian scholars at the Moscow Centre for Vietnamese Studies as a part of the project „Chinese Sources on Traditional Vietnam“.

THE 1952 UPRISING IN IRAQ AND REGENT'S ROLE IN ITS CRUSHING
(Iraq from al-watba to al-intifada: 1949-1952)

Karol SORBY
Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia

The year 1949 had been for Iraq one of political decline and uncertainity. Unbalanced budgets, declining production, unemployment, and dominating this dismal, the terrible shock of the lost Palestinian war. Frustration and unrest mushroomed in Iraq, especially in Baghdad. Other grievances uncluded lack of full independence from Great Britain, political corruption, nationalization of oil in Iran and the new fifty-fifty profit-sharing arrangement in Saudi Arabia, as well as the high cost of living. The Iraq Petroleum Company eventually decided to increase the royalties, but this had not brought contentment to Iraq. Riots broke out in Baghdad in November 1952 and the regent decided to solve the problem by an unconstitutional coup, by inviting the army to rule.