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The aim of this article "Comparative analysis of speech etiquette in Bulgarian and Chinese language" is a Comparative Analysis of the specifics of speech etiquette in Bulgarian and Chinese language. Based on examples from everyday life are presented and analyzed several situations in salute, address, presentation, thanksgiving, application motive, compliments, etc., where most stand out differences or similarities in the culture of the two nations expressed through speech etiquette, whose ignorance leads to misunderstanding in communication. The article also outlined some national traditions that have the biggest impact on speech etiquette. The paper makes an appeal teaching of native speech etiquette for foreigners should be included in language learning.
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This paper examines Corsican and Romanian traditions of mountainous shepherds in the context of the magic quest for milk. This quest is narrated in the tales and in the legends and it is embodied by the magic traditional characters as Corsican Salamone and Romanian Solomonar. Corsican Salamone would like to be the magic specialist of the brocciu’s creation and fabrication. But he can’t. Why? We will try to answer to this question. The brocciu is Corsican typical cheese. Solomonar is a Romanian weatherman who requests for the eggs and for the milk in his village. Why? We will try to answer to this second question. Finally, both characters Salamone and Solomonar are a re-appropriation of the famous mythical character in the Grimoires books, Solomon. This comparative research aims to understand his symbolical role in this ritual quest transformed in the popular narrative tradition.
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In the vast area, ranging from Kamchatka in the East to Brest and Bialystok in the West, dialects spoken by the local Gypsies are so close to each other regarding phonetics, morphology and vocabulary, that they make in fact one macro-dialect with local varieties. The details of these varieties can barely be noticed by a non-professional and a non-Gypsy. Nevertheless, these details play an important role in group identification and in the differentiating between Gypsy groupings. The author has intended to present the peculiarities of the dialect spoken by the Lithuanian Gypsies, which make it different from the whole bunch of vernacular Gypsy tongues of a broader area that includes (except of the Republic of Lithuania) Western Belarus, Eastern Latvia and neighboring parts of the Russian Federation.
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The Baptizing of Bulgarians is a widely interpret subject in Bulgarian and in foreign medieval texts. The first part of the article is focused at the appearance of that subject in “Slavonic-Bulgarian History“ by Paisius of Hilendar, furthermore – the ethno-saving function of the story of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in the chapter called “For the Slavic Teachers“. This function is linked with the subject of the direct participation of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in the Baptizing of Bulgarians. The truth or the inveracities are defined according to the real facts which today’s science possesses. Then an analysis is given of their later 100-year projection in the works of some Bulgarian Renaissance writers and publishers. Again, the aim of this projection is ethno-saving, but there is a spiritually unifying power which transforms into a political support in the years before the Liberation. That’s why in the second part of the article the focus is at the “Speech of St. Cyril and St. Methodius“ given by Kuzman Shapkarev in the city of Kukush on 11th May 1866.
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In this study we examine the occurrences and correspondences of terms for affinal kinship in a Bulgarian–Ukrainian parallel corpus of fiction. All instances of the terms selected for study, matching and non-matching, were located and counted, and the frequencies compared. Some of the asymmetries found may have roots in culture and history whilst others reflect diverse features of language and the practice of literary translation.
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The paper analyses the dystopian tendencies in Victor Pelevin’s prose of the 1990s. The features of the chronotope and the dialogic connections with classic dystopias are revealed. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the dystopian look at the future is replaced in Pelevin’s works by the post-utopian view on the present. At the same time, the nature of the chronotope is determined by the Buddhist conception of human life as a chain of sufferings and the idea of the circle of samsara. However, both post-utopian and Buddhist paradigms undergo travesty, which leads to the transformation of the chronotope and the conflict as well as to the reduction of the dystopian pathos. As a result, the genre of dystopia becomes an object of parody.
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This is a book review of: Ziková, Markéta, Caha, Pavel, Dočekal, Mojmir (eds.). 2015. Slavic languages in the perspective of formal grammar
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The Latin perception of Logos/Christos as consubstantial with the God Father and "unius substantiæ cum Patre, quod Græci dicunt homoousion" received two semantic interpretations by Konstantin of Preslav in Orationes contra arianorum: as равьносѫштьнъ (equal in substance) and цѣглъ (unique). The Geek text of Athanasius of Alexandria emphasizes the unity of the Trinity. The attributiv μόνος (one, single) re. the Logos-Son corresponds to єдинъ and the common translation of ὁμοούσιοϛ, proprius substantiae, in the other Old Bulgarian manuscripts is єдиносѫштьнъ (united, undivided by nature). Exept for the semantic transfer of "unique" about the Logos-Son, the author found traces of Balcan Latin terms, existing in Bulgaria before the mission of Kyrillos and Methodius' disciples. She does not exclude an influence of Athanasius Latin tradition in the Slavonic choice of Oratio V, съланїє о праздницѣ пасхы. This Epistle for the celebration of Passover is without a known Greek source, but with a possible relation to De ratione pashae, attributed to Niceta of Remesiana (ca. 335-414) or Martin von Braga (515-580). The Slavonic treatise could be Athanasius' original work, dated in 330 and known in antiquity only in a Latin version.
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The results from Bulgarian Slavic studies articles, papers and monographs, published between 1913 and 2013, are presented in chronological order and allow for three conclusions: 1. The information provided by the translator in the epilogue to Life of St. Anthony the Great in Hlud. 195 from the 14th century on “archbishop Joan” adding “who was Patriarch of the Bulgarian land” is true and dates back to the 10th century; 2. The information provided in an earlier version of the epilogue by the same translator, known from five copies from the 16th -17thcenturies, on “Joan, archbishop of the Bulgarian land” dates back to the period between 907 and 913 AD; 3.”Archbishop Joan” in both versions of the epilogue to the translation of Life of St. Anthony the Great refers to Joan Ekzarh (Joan Exarch), who was archbishop of Bulgaria after 907 AD, and who was enthroned as the first Bulgarian Patriarch on 31st July 913 AD in St. Virgin Mary church in Veliki Preslav.
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The article aims at giving a concise overview on the contemporary state of knowledge what were the textual and linguistic peculiarities of the first Slavonic translation of the Nomocanon, made by St. Methodius during the last years of the Moravian mission, and what was its historical influence in the light of the development of the Slavonic juridical tradition from the 9th to the 18th cc.
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The article discusses the choice between genitive forms without prepositions and prepositional genitives with „отъ” denoting the object in the verbs “be afraid/ scared of” with ablative relations between the object and the subject found in the Old-Bulgarian Psalter of Sinai, and the Middle-Bulgarian Psalter of Bologna and Tomic Psalter. An attempt is made to define some normative prerequisites as well as some formal semantic factors for their use in the Slavonic tradition of Psalter as compared to the Greek Protograph. The author suggests a new interpretation of a group of prepositional phrases with „отъ” in the verbs of the Old-Bulgarian Codek Suprasliensis and the Manasi Chronicle, which are traditionally viewed as exceptions.
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This article is devoted to analysis of the text of John's Gospel which is present in the Croatian Glagolitic Missals and Breviaries created before the 15th century. Research has shown that these liturgical books contain one of the early versions of Old Slavonic translation of the Gospel, which in some Croatian sources was again fixed after Latin originals or subjected to linguistic Croatization. The Gospel text of the Croatian Breviaries and Missals which has not been subjected to a secondary correction often coincides with the Preslav edition of the Gospel. This is the result of a comparison between these Glagolitic sources and a critical edition of the Church Slavonic Gospel of John, prepared by a team of researchers led by A. Alexeev. Cases of coincidence between the Croatian texts and the more recent Cyrillic editions are very rare and not entirely convincing which excludes the possibility of later changes in the Glagolitic sources after Cyrillic copies. That Preslav edition of John's Gospel has been used in the preparation of Croatian liturgical books where it later developed independently within the framework of its own textological tradition.
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In this report four newly discovered notated chants for the church service in honour of Saint Naum on 23 December are presented. Written in the 19th century they show how the cult of this notable Saint is renewed during the period of Bulgarian National Revival.
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Sebastian Maisel, ed., The Kurds: an Encyclopedia of Life, Culture, and Society, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2018, 376 pp., (978-1-4408-4256-6). Murat Yeşiltaş and Tuncay Kardaş, eds., Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East: Geopolitics, Ideology, Strategy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 278 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-319-55287-3). Barbara Henning, Narratives of the History of the Ottoman-Kurdish Bedirhani Family in Imperial and Post-Imperial Contexts: Continuities and Changes. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2018, 756 pp., (ISBN: 9783863095512). Gareth Stansfield and Mohammed Shareef, eds, The Kurdish Question Revisited. London: C Hurst & Co., 2017, 712 pp., (ISBN-10: 0190687185; ISBN-13: 978-0190687182). Abbas Amanat, Iran: A Modern History, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2017, pp. 1000, (ISBN-10: 0300112548, ISBN-13: 978-0300112542).
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This contribution probes into the attitudes towards plagiarism in academia as it details the results of a questionnaire study within the larger framework of a joint Bulgarian-German research project on plagiarism in academia. The questionnaire focused on investigating the scope of the notion of plagiarism as Bulgarian academics understand it and second, looking into the availability of a system of support to prevent transgressors and/or sanctions for transgressing academics across Bulgarian universities. The results of the questionnaire suggest that while there appears to be a consensus among Bulgarian academics about the different facets that make up the notion of plagiarism, the reported attitudes towards plagiarism practices vary greatly, reflecting a non-uniform perception of what constitutes an offense. It also shows a deep dissatisfaction with existing anti-plagiarism regulatory systems in Bulgarian scientific institutions.
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The topic of discussion of the following research is the "Jerusalemes" brought to Bulgaria by pilgrims during the Bulgarian Renaissance. These picturesque paintings (defined as such because of their difference from typical icons) pre sent the Bible and give an insight into the objects along the pilgrim road. The central image of each painting is always Christ's grave in the Church of Resurrection built by St. Constantine and St. Helena in Jerusalem.
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This article theoretically discusses the national identity concept and its relation to the upholding of those distinctive elements that are associated with a country’s or a nation’s past. With a particular focus on the perceptions of British national identity in the 1990s, it presents some views of British academics, political pundits, politicians or journalists of those times regarding the state of the British society caught between the old and the new. The ‘Cool Britannia’ project proposed by the New Labour government aimed to resolve matters largely connected to a declining British society by putting forward a national rebranding plan, with the ultimate intention of modernizing a backward-looking British society at the turn of the century.
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