Terms for slander in Rhodope dialects Cover Image

Начини за назоваване на клевета в родопските говори
Terms for slander in Rhodope dialects

Author(s): Kiril Parvanov
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: slander; dialects; Rhodopian dialects

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated on the words expressing slander in 232 villages in Rhodopian Dialects. The collected linguistic material is taken from the questionnaire for the Rhodopian Dialect Atlas and the Archive for Bulgarian Dialect Dictionary. The article presents the words (бед’а, клеват’а, клеп’a) and the idioms (прав’а манафлък, згадам клеп) expressing slander – their origin and their distribution. It also analyzes the other meanings of the words expressing slander in the Bulgarian dialects.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 139-146
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bulgarian