Aurelija Tamošiūnaitė

List of John Benjamins publications for which Aurelija Tamošiūnaitė plays a role.

Articles

Tamošiūnaitė, Aurelija 2015 Defining ‘Lithuanian’: Orthographic debates at the end of the nineteenth centuryThe Historical Sociolinguistics of Spelling, Villa, Laura and Rik Vosters (eds.), pp. 309–326 | Article
After the 1863 uprising, in order to diminish Polish influence over Lithuanians, the authorities of the Russian Empire banned the use of Latin letters for Lithuanian texts and implemented the Cyrillic script. The article discusses the linguistic ideologies that underlay this orthographic reform… read more
Tamošiūnaitė, Aurelija 2013 Ego-documents in Lithuanian: Orthographic identities at the turn of the twentieth centuryTouching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents, Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), pp. 225–242 | Article
Following the language history from below approach, this article aims to take a closer look at the scope of the script and spelling reforms for Lithuanian at the turn of the twentieth century and their effect on the writing strategies of “ordinary” population. The data consists of 122 Lithuanian… read more