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Linguistic Speech as a Challenge for the Translator and the Foreign Language Tuition

Author(s): Vladislav Milanov
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Applied Linguistics, Language acquisition, Vocational Education, Adult Education, State/Government and Education, Philology, Inclusive Education / Inclusion, Distance learning / e-learning, Pedagogy
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: political speech; speech clichés; speech aggression; language identification

Summary/Abstract: The current article examines Bulgarian public political speech as a challenge for the professional translators and as a series of political messages addressed to young people who study at higher educational institutions in Bulgaria. The article analyses the perception of clichéd constructions as well as the models of speech aggression which are widely practiced in different discussion formats such as election campaign debates, parliamentary control, public debates on TV where important public issues are discussed. The observations on the presidential election campaign in 2021 are also presented as well as the perception of the political messages by the nominees. The main conclusion from the scientific study shows that both Bulgarians and foreigners face problems with the grammatically correct sentence constructions behind which there is a minimum of information. The study also confirms the hypothesis that foreign students in Bulgaria recognize a number of common features between the political speech in our country and in their home countries. The clichés and the speech aggression are present in the global political speech as a component which defines the models of public speech and Bulgaria is no exception from that. A similar conclusion can be made about the interconnection between political and journalistic speech where the following common speech features can be recognized: inability to listen to the interlocutor; politicians slide over journalistic questions; the “self” overexposure, etc.

  • Issue Year: 48/2021
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 604-613
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian