We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.
This paper focuses on some modern concepts of modality as a language phenomenon. Special emphasis has been made on the different types of modality and on the ambivalent nature of the modal notions.
More...
The main goal of the article is to represent some features of spoken business communication in Bulgarian. Different aspects of professional presentation in formal situation are discussed, such as pronunciation, elaboration of lexical and morphosyntactic means, pragmatic markers.
More...
The article explores the semantics and distribution of Bulgarian verbs expressing oscillation. We have set ourselves the task of clarifying the relevant semantic parameters for the Bulgarian lexical system and also to pay attention to comparative study between Russian and Serbian.
More...
Ethnolinguistic Situation of the Bulgarian Diaspora in Ukraine. The article deals with the ethnolinguistic situation of the ethnic Bulgarians in Ukraine. The formation of linguistic culture of the Bulgarian diaspora on the territory, separated from its historical homeland, develops depending on specific social conditions. The problem is interpreted simultaneously in synchronic and diachronic aspects.
More...
The subject of this paper is the Bulgarian north-eastern dialects in Romania. In the dialects we find some special features on the use of the pronominal clitics. Because the dialects are in the Romanian language environment, these features could have arisen under the infl uence of Romanian. The main object of this paper is to reveal the features observed in the dialects and to compare them with those found in Romanian.
More...
The article is devoted to the grammatical aspect of translation and it consists of two parts. The first part is an attempt to understand how the token “a” functions in Bulgarian: what meaning it has and what are the grounds for to be considered as an indefinite article. The second part is dedicated to the problem of the transmission of the grammatical meaning of a language by means of the other language. Based on scientific literature on translation theory and examples from translations of works of art from Bulgarian into Russian, we compiled a few rules to translate structures with the token “one” in Russian.
More...
Some aspects of the analysis of the landscape code of Culture in Bulgarian phraseology (semantic field forest) – Catherine N. Struganova The article looks at the phraseological units in Bulgarian through the prism of cultural significance. In this type of analysis the author bases her research on V.N. Tellier. She analyses Russian idioms and on this basis she synthesizes cultural information, trying to come up with her own method of analysis of set phrases and use it for Bulgarian language. The method is represented by the analysis of set phrases with tokens "forest tree".
More...
The purpose of the present research is to see how the semantic differences between both lexemes “разбирам” in Bulgarian language and “ruzumět” in Czech language are reflected on a grammatical level. The emphasis is mostly on the differences in the rection of these verbs. We use a complex approach which includes the theory of semantic roles and valence theory. Via analysis of dictionary articles, and determination of the semantic roles and the mandatory valent positions we carry out a comparison in terms of semantic characteristics of the verbs meaning 'understand' in Czech and Bulgarian.
More...
The report outlines the foreign student view on the teaching in Bulgarian. The most productive training can be achieved through a comparison of the two languages and Cultures. The specifics of the Russian language and Russian approach to training and education constitute the basis of the report. It studies the issue of interpersonal communication. Methods that can help to avoid the problems of misunderstanding of certain cultural rules of a foreign country are suggested. It presents fragments of some original methods of teaching the foreign language and a series of exercises for development of attention, memory and diction.
More...
The article discusses the use of some pragmatic markers in spoken Bulgarian – ami, ama, nali, znachi, taka. Conclusions are based on data from two types of communication – formal academic and informal communication. The analysis shows that pragmatic markers are characteristic to both formal and informal communication. While ami, ama and znachi are used in all contexts, pragmatic markers like nali and taka tend to appear mainly in formal communication.
More...
The article concerns a question of present interest – the degree of morphological adaptation of new loan-words in the field of sport in Bulgarian and Czech language to the system of the respective language.
More...
The article divides neologisms in semantic groups, which the author based on her description of Bulgarian. While characterizing neologisms, she takes into account not only their lexical meaning, but also their style. The review of the new words in both languages gives opportunity to clarify some features and trends in Bulgarian and Russian.
More...
The present article aims at addressing the role played by media in influencing young people’s political and social attitudes. In an era where debates about minimal media effects are arousing, we want to analyse if and how media still have a power. Thus, by means of a classic framing experiment (N=769), we tested the impact and implications of media coverage on political and social involvement. Results show that, at least for young people in Romania, media might be an attitude changing agent. However, media are not the only responsible and we urge future studies to revisit other possible influences – either individual or contextual.
More...
The figure of the warrior-scholar remains a perennial object of study embodied during the Middle Ages by the literate knight (chevalier-lettré; ritter-gehlerter). The study dwells upon knightly education during Catholic West as well as in Byzantine cosmos. Far from the prejudice that the wielders of the sword narrowed their existence solely to serving their feudal masters and preparing for future conflicts, a vast, albeit not mainstream literature uncover deeper layers with regard to the life of martial nobility. Thus, a significant portion of it was product of culture and literacy, not only by accident but because growing state bureaucracies needed people capable to shoulder monarchies in the exercise of governance.
More...
In the last years, Romania formally tried to overcome the problems related to inequality of opportunity in education. This paper examines the role of home resources and gender in determining academic performance. Based on secondary data drawn from Progress in International Reading Literacy Study we suggest that both gender and home resources have a significant impact on the reading achievement of students. The existing work operationalizes the differences in reading achievement as an indicator for life chances, being proportional with economic success later in life. Our findings contradict ideas about equality of opportunity promoted by the official curriculum regarding the individual merit as the main factor that places students in privileged social positions.
More...
Memory in the public space is represented by symbols and messages with a powerful ideological and historical meaning. Freedom of expression frames a space of competitive memories. The memories of the Second World War or of the Holocaust can be classified as „god” or „bad” according to the degree to which they rewrite the totalitarian and criminal nature of a political life which too often is characterized as „contradictory”.
More...
As Jürgen Habermas suggested, „the spirit and discipline of aesthetic modernity,“ which defined „various avant-garde movements... finally reached its climax in the Cabaret Voltaire of the dadaists and in surrealism.“ The surrealists’ documents, declarations, actions, and manifestoes of the 1920s and 1930s point out to the apparently tireless crusade against public misinterpretations of their intent. On the other hand, there is little doubt that a political situation can exercise a given influence on avant-garde art in particular. While using primary and secondary sources, I look into the case of Gellu Naum just to illustrate the tensions between art and politics in the interwar Romania.
More...