Reflection of Man and Culture in Language and Literature

Mária Matiová studied Teaching of Slovak Language and Psychology and completed internal doctoral studies at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Constantine The Philosopher in Nitra. She works as a professional assistant at her alma mater. In her publications, she focuses on cognitive-linguistic research of conceptual metaphor and linguistic image of the world, as well as Slovak phraseology and mass media communication. Martin Navrátil graduated from the Slovak Language and Literature and History teaching course at the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra. Since 2015, he has continued at the University at the Department of Slovak Literature in his PhD degree studies in the program of Literary Theory and the History of Particular National Literatures (Slovak Literature). His academic research concentrates on the Slovak poetry of the 20th century and the question of Slovak textology.

• Language – Literature – Philology – Slovak – Russian – German – English – Romanian languages – Interdisciplinary – Anthropocentrism – Culture – Social context – Psychology – Communication theory – Aesthetics – Mass media – Social sciences – Interpretation of the world – Synchronic-diachronic approach