“A COLLECTION OF LETTERS FOR TEACHING CHILDREN“ BY LUKA PAVLEV (1858) Cover Image

„ПИСМЕННИ СЪСТАВИ ЗА ОБУЧЕНIЕ НА ДѢТЦА-ТА“ ОТ ЛУКА ПАВЛЕВ (1858 г.)
“A COLLECTION OF LETTERS FOR TEACHING CHILDREN“ BY LUKA PAVLEV (1858)

Author(s): Nadka Nikolova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: Luka Pavlev; Bulgarian Revival; letter book; literary languag; letters

Summary/Abstract: The article is an introductory part of a larger study of the letter book of Luka Pavlev - a little-known Revival educator from Pirdop and the author of an 1858 textbook intended to introduce students to the art of epistolary. It was pragmatic in its nature, as it contained 20 templates for letters, preceded by metatexts informing about the sender, the recipient and the content of the letter. The ways of addressing the recipient, the content and signing of the letters, as well as the proper names appearing in them, are commented on against the background of the literary-linguistic situation in the 1950s and the previously published letter books.