Съобщенията за Русия в българския печат от втората половина на ХХ век (към въпроса за използването на евиденциалността)
Reports on Russia in the Bulgarian press in the second half of the 20th c. Towards the problem of the use of evidentials

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to changes in strategies of using unwitnessed evidentials in Bulgarian Communist Party official newspaper “Rabotničsko delo” (renamed as “Duma” on March, 4th, 1990). The main idea is that the socio-political changes deeply influenced the usage of unwitnessed evidential forms. While before the Soviet perestroyka and “the changes” in Bulgaria the Soviet sources where referred to as objective par excellence and the forms used in the news based on them almost exclusively were witnessed evidentials, in 1988- 1990 intervention of unwitnessed evidentials (both with and without auxiliary) into them becomes obvious. The breaking point in this process is August 1991 when unwitnessed evidentials become default forms in the news from the USSR, though not for a long time.

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