The Sovietization of Lithuania after WWII: modernization, transculturation, and the lettered city

Davoliūtė, Violeta

doi:10.1080/01629778.2015.1103512

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“…Lithuania was the least 'Russified' of the three, partially due to the size of the agricultural sector and its lack of strategic importance of Lithuania as a buffer to the West. In fact, the ethnic Russian population is the third ethnic group behind Lithuanians and Poles (Davoliūtė 2016). The capital city Vilnius is unlike the other two as it is not located on a major body of water and therefore does not receive the same tourism exposure as does Riga and Tallinn who are major port destinations for cruise ship passengers.…”

Section: Role Of Tourism In the Baltic Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Proceedings of the International WorkshopTourism and Hospitality Management (IWTHM2021)

Borges¹

2021

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The International Workshop Tourism and Hospitality Management (IWTHM2021) is an international scientific meeting, that gathers together researchers from around the world, with the purpose of sharing knowledge in the topic of Tourism and Hospitality Management. Moreover, this intensive, diversified and original event intends to be a reference in the scientific community evolving Tourism and Hospitality Management.We are in the third edition, and due to the success of the previous two editions, the Organization Committee decided to continue the discussion of current topics on tourism and hospitality.After a particularly atypical year, in which restrictions were placed on people's mobility, with the aim of limiting the spread of COVID-19, the impacts on the tourism sector are more than many. The OECD forecasts, released in the report "Tourism Policy Responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19)", of June 2, 2020, point not only to a 60% to 80% drop in international tourism, but also to a drop in local tourism, since it is estimated that approximately half of the world population has been or is still subject to containment measures. However, it is expected that local tourism will recover more quickly and can serve as a support, considering that the local tourism economy represents about 75% of the total tourism economy in OECD countries.Considering the great challenges currently facing both national and international tourism, ISAG -European Business School and the Research Center in Business Sciences and Tourism (CICET -FCVC) understand that this is the right time to organize the third edition of the Tourism and Hospitality Management Workshop, aiming at sharing knowledge in scientific fields of tourism and hospitality among the various participants and researchers. Thus, the IWTHM2021 Organizing Committee invited researchers from all around the world to submit their work, under the form of abstracts, extended abstracts and full papers. All manuscripts went through a doubleblind peer-review process in order to be selected to presentation at the Workshop.

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Section: Role Of Tourism In the Baltic Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Proceedings of the International WorkshopTourism and Hospitality Management (IWTHM2021)

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2021

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“…"In popular and official Lithuanian memory today, the Soviets were nothing less than agents of genocide" (Davoliūtė, 2014: 108). On the other hand, a number of researchers recently tried to establish a link between the development of Soviet Lithianian identity, the nationalising drive of the inter-war republic and the early Lithuanian nationalist movement, which highlights the national character of Lithuanian Sovietisation (Davoliūtė, 2013(Davoliūtė, , 2014(Davoliūtė, , 2016Snyder, 2003;Weeks, 2015). From this perspective, Soviet rule in Vilnius can be seen not only as a repressive regime, but also as a catalyst for transnational and transcultural processes which brought demographic and linguistic Lithuaniasation.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict

Evans¹,

Jeffries²,

O’Driscoll³

2019

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Imagine a world without public signs: no street names, airports and train stations without information boards, public buildings without signs directing us to different floors and services, "naked" roads and motorways, supermarkets without marked aisles and price tags. Public signage is one of the most useful features of modern life, which most of us take for granted.We live in an increasingly globalised multilingual world, which builds complicated spaces. To navigate through world cities, we rely on public signs. That is why "wayfinding", a term coined by the American urban planner Lynch (1960), has become a special professional field of wayfinding designers. It has grown exponentially since the 1960s, as businesses realised that well organised wayfinding systems can have financial benefits. The field has been expanded to include marketing and advertising, which are omnipresent in commercial signs. "Written language is an important part of these multimodal messages" (Gorter, 2012: 1) and it is not surprising that the development of wayfinding also attracted the attention of linguists interested in understanding how languages and images in public spaces can be interpreted as "maps of meaning" (Jackson, 1989) which represent our society and reflect the complex socio-cultural and political forces that create it. Their investigations extended beyond commercial public signage and included noncommercial, official and non-official signs. These are known as Linguistic Landscape studies, a rapidly developing multidisciplinary field, which is proving of interest to researchers from a variety of different backgrounds, including linguistics, sociology, anthropology, urban studies, politics, semiotics, education, and economics. The common interest of all is the understanding that LL is the scene where public space is symbolically constructed (Ben-Rafael, Shohamy, Hasan Amara, Trumper-Hecht, 2006;. The construction is created by the markings of objectsmaterial and immaterialwith linguistic tokens. These tokens may be analysed according to the languages used, their importance and prominence in the LL, as well as their syntactic and semantic aspects.The term "Linguistic Landscape" (LL) can be traced to an article published in 1997: "The language of public road signs, advertising billboards, street names, place names, commercial shop signs, and public signs on government buildings combines to form the linguistic landscape of a given territory, region, or urban agglomeration" (Landry & Bourhis, 1997: 25). But the interest in languages in public spaces has a longer history. The first sociolinguistic studies, which investigated public signage appeared in the 1970s (Masai, 1972;Tulp, 1978). Masai's study focused on language choices in what were perceived as monolingual areas of Tokyo. It discovered the presence of English in addition to Japanese. Tulp's research in the officailly bilingual Brussels uncovered the predominance of French. In the 1980s and 1990s, these projects were followed by a number of idiosyncratic studies of the ro...

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“…This interpretation of the Lithuanian language position, in our opinion, arises from merging the notions of Russification and Sovietisatrion into one concept, although a body of work exists which demonstrates that they are not the same (Zamascikov 2007;Remnev 2011;Davoliūtė 2016).…”

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Expanding the Linguistic Landscape

2018

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Linguistic, ethnic and cultural tensions in the sociolinguistic landscape of Vilnius: a diachronic analysis Using a multimodal diachronic Linguistic Landscape analysis, which advocates a historicised and spatialised approach to the study of the city's socio-political landscape, the article attempts to analyse the dynamics of sociolinguistic changes in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, before the establishment of Soviet rule and after its collapse in 1991. Drawing from its socio-cultural geography and urban studies, we analyse how written languages interact with the physical features of the cityscape to construct new memory landscapes and express ethnic tensions and nationalising policies resulting from ideological power change. Such a qualitative approach emphasizes the importance of sociohistorical context and leads to a greater understanding of identity and socio-cultural transformations. Looking at the history of this multicultural city through the lens of Linguistic Landscape analysis, allows us to reach a deeper understanding of its different ethnic narratives and tensions.

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The Sovietization of Lithuania after WWII: modernization, transculturation, and the lettered city

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Proceedings of the International WorkshopTourism and Hospitality Management (IWTHM2021)

Proceedings of the International WorkshopTourism and Hospitality Management (IWTHM2021)

The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict

Expanding the Linguistic Landscape

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