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The paper points to a preoccupation with certain cultural and anthropological phenomena in the work of Miodrag Pavlović, especially the phenomenon of the sacrificial ritual, the meaning and function of which the author has primarily dealt with in his Poetics of Sacrificial Ritual. However, this preoccupation with human cultural and spiritual roots is not only a feature of Pavlović's essays, but is also very present in his poetic oeuvre. Hence, this paper tries to prove that one writing practice follows another, or more precisely: that one stems from another, showing threads of a higher degree of creative coherence, whereby poetic manifestation testifies to the existence of critical-essayistic and philosophical-cultural consciousness of its author. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the entrenched linguistic prejudices which occur both in Italy and Serbia, sometimes even in academic contexts. Our analysis took into account, for instance, the belief that words do not have an effect if they are not written down, according to the Latin principle verba volant, scripta manent. We analysed linguistic stereotypes, myths and prejudices, such as the belief that there are logical and illogical, superior and inferior, beautiful and ugly, easy and difficult to learn languages. Eventually, we examined the discrimination of dialects compared with national languages and discussed the belief that our language is destined to disappear if it is not defended from the influences of foreign languages and cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]