Třináctý u stolu

[The Thirteenth at the Table]

Karel Kučera

This article encourages both the authors and the readers to find a responsible and conscious approach towards the outcome of the philological studies and its practical applicability.

Jazykové hry

[Language Games]

Martin Drápela

Using Wittgenstein’s concept of language games the author offers his own view on logical semantics and tries to refute an argument that the notion of winning has no meaning in the context of language.

Peer Review Is Far from Peerless

Robert de Beaugrande

The discussion suggests that the process of peer-review is illogical and may hinder rather than promote the more important goals of academic research, possibly driving a wedge between the official theories of reviewing and its concrete practices as recorded in the discourse of reviewers.

Old English and Middle English scripts in Unicode

Martin Drápela

The article describes a method of including Old English and Middle English scripts in web pages. It also contains glyph-to-code reference tables for Old English and Middle English letters.