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Социолингвистични промени при предаване на чужда реч в българския печат през последните две десетилетия в съпоставка с полския печат
Sociolinguistic changes in reported speech in the Bulgarian press during the last two decades

Author(s): Russelina Nicolova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Morphology, Syntax, Lexis, Sociolinguistics
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Sociolinguistic changes; reported speech; Bulgarian press; Polish press;

Summary/Abstract: The article offers a brief characterization of evidentiality in Bulgarian which, in addition to lexical and syntactic expression, finds morphological expression primarily, and of evidentiality in Polish. Lexical and syntactic markers predominate there and only one construction ma + infinitive in one of its uses approaches the Bulgarian renarrated forms. Two types of sociolinguistic changes in indirect speech, noticeable in the Bulgarian press after 1989, are also discussed: changes in the choice of forms in reports from abroad and in rendering statements made by officials at home.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 5-20
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bulgarian