Дисертации 2020
Defended PhD theses in Bulgaria in the field of linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography and art studies
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Defended PhD theses in Bulgaria in the field of linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography and art studies
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This article is devoted to the first translations of Yordan Yovkov's stories in Poland and some problems related to the reception of translated literature in a foreign cultural environment. The works of the Bulgarian writer in the mentioned period were published in Polish magazines with an orientation towards the so-called women's topics. Their literary supplements published novels and short stories by the world's most famous authors at the time and were intended for adherents of women's emancipation, with broad intellectual horizons and good literary taste. The choice of specific works by Yordan Yovkov makes it possible to assess the literary reception and the dominant aesthetic norms in the host culture and literature. The article also analyzes the issues of language and poetics of the text, as well as the attempts of several generations of Polish translators to "overcome" the difficulties of the style and poetics of Yovkov's work.
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As a result of the analysis of liturgical texts of the 14th–15th centuries created in the territory of Ukraine, expressive signs of interaction between the Old Bulgarian graphic and spelling system and the Ukrainian folk speech are recorded. Manifestations of the phonetic and graphic South Slavic-Ukrainian variability are associated with the following linguistic phenomena in the vocalism and consonantism of religious monuments: continuity of the former*ę,*’а and *Q; change of the initial *jе into о; transition of e into o after hushings and ц; reduction of и > ь before iotated vowels; confusion of unstressed и and е; development of sound combinations *tоrt, *tоlt, *tеrt, *tеlt; reflexes of sound combinations ър, ъл, ьр, ьл; hardening of р'; hardness/softness of hushing consonants; dissimilation and simplification of consonants; change of sound combinations *dj, *zdj and *tj, *kt . In the phonetic system of the studied monuments, the interaction of the traditional writing of that time and the local vernacular is observed, in particular, the phonetic features of the North Ukrainian and the South-West Ukrainian dialects are revealed. The study of the language of religious monuments taking into account the results of other research in the field of philology, paleography, theology has undeniable prospects for linguistic interpretation of church books with the definition of local language traditions of the time, their localization as elements of the Slavic written culture, resolving debatable issues regarding the formation, chronology and systematization of the church-written corpus.
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The focus of the present article is time as an abstract notion. It has various facets, including physical, philosophical, as well as others, and the linguistic aspect is connected to them. Time as a subject to linguistic description suggests a more profound analysis of the grammatical category of tense or even a study on a greater scale considering the functional semantic field of temporality. This paper discusses several major views on tense as a linguistic abstraction that has a status of a universal in Russian and Bulgarian linguistics.
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This article aims to interpret the intertextual motive nests on the Society and Government topic – part of the curriculum in literature for 11th grade, combining texts from compulsory and specialized training, module Dialogic Readings. The artistic interactions between the literary texts included in the curriculum and those that are outside it are considered in order to highlight the dialogic nature of literature as a special type of cultural significance. Based on the specific interpretive commentary are highlighted the leading problem-thematic lines, which would become the basis for effective educational work.
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This article analyzes the problems that arise in the measurement and grading of writing skills in one of the main genres of school-level texts – the essay. After analyzing the current grading criteria according to the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science (MES), the author reaches the conclusion that an adequate and objective grading scale is possible only after we have clearly defined the criteria that constitute the competence of essay writing. The author’s main proposition is that this competence is dual in its nature – on the one hand, it is content-related, and on the other – communication-related. Neither of these two competences is defined clearly enough in the current educational criteria. The article describes in detail all aspects of the essay writing competence and offers a clear working algorithm. Hence the author offers the idea that an adequate grading scale can only be created if one follows the classic rhetorical scheme which describes the three main components of any discourse formation – inventio, dispositio, and elocutio. A practical measurement and grading scale is proposed. Its usage would grant two major advantages: it would allow the authorities to assess the students’ results adequately and objectively, and it would frame a clear and systematic working algorithm for the acquisition of essay writing skills. According to Bulgarian school programs, this competence is supposed to be taught for four entire years within the two high-school stages of the secondary education.
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Through comparative and content analysis, the article discusses the ways in which Byron's poem "Don Juan" is presented in the new textbooks for ninth grade. Numerous explanations and references, as well as the unusual for the myth of Don Juan choice of the obligatory for study of Chapter VIII, require from the authors of the textbooks very careful handling of the scientific and didactic-methodical apparatus. When an approach in accordance with the literary experience of ninth-graders is not chosen, the study articles have a low informative value. The known discrepancies in the analyzed motives make it difficult to compile tests that can be correctly solved by students using different textbooks. In some cases the tasks from the methodical part do not create skills for independent learning, but require repetition of what is written in the theoretical part. Textbooks fail to realize interdisciplinary connections
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The first part of the article is focused on theoretical side of the process of idiom creation and on defining terms word motivation and idiom motivation. In the second part of the article the concept water is analyzed within the Slavic linguistic area from the aspect of imagery, mythology and ethnolinguistics. Special attention is paid to the motivation of creation and cultural-idiomatic information carried by non-verbal idioms with the structure of determinative syntagma, which contain the component water. Based on the analysis of the idioms, whose constant structural element is in addition to the noun water an attribute, it is pointed out that in several of them the function of the attribute is crucial, because the connotational-pragmatic constituent of an idiom binds precisely to that attribute, as for example in the case of жива вода or тиха вода units.
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This paper seeks to answer the question whether the great wealth of Icelandic literature in the sagas and the Eddas of the 12th – 13th c. is accessible to modern Icelanders without special linguistic training and hence whether it is possible for a language to remain almost intact and impervious to changes for more than 7 centuries. The paper provides an ad hoc contrastive analysis of the main nominal and verbal grammatical categories in Modern Icelandic and Old Icelandic, while focusing on their morphological properties, and describes and discusses the similarities and differences ensuing from the analysis.
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The article presents results of studying how the labor market participants formulate the perspectives and expectations about the contents of metasubject competencies. The research was carried out in 2019-2020 by the Project Management Laboratory of the Moscow City University and was based on the methodology of the activity approach and qualitative research, using the methods of in-depth interviews and content analysis. Metasubject competencies were considered as a set of purposeful actions expressed in the speech of respondents by verbs (actions) and propositional phrases (goals/subjects). A six-step content analysis of data obtained during an in-depth interview shows that the expectations and perspectives of various categories of labor market participants about the contents of meta-subject competencies can be described by nine enlarged sets of goal-oriented actions denoted by verbs: 1) to adapt, 2) to interact, 3) to speak and write, 4) to achieve, 5) to compete, 6) to present, 7) to design, 8) to manage, 9) to learn. Within each set were defined verbal descriptions of actions, decomposed by adding a goal/object to each action. The results of the study allowed us to identify and present a verb-target model for describing the content of “metasubject competencies” at the conceptual level. At the practical level, the description of the content of metasubject competencies in the form of a verb (action) and propositional phrase (goal/subject of action) allowed us to show them as cross-cutting structural components of educational programs in the education system.
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The aim of the article is to investigate the effect of vocabulary items that are difficult in reception on comprehension and evaluation of the whole literary text by children. Apart from focusing on ambiguous lexis complicating reception, the paper reflects upon the benefits of investigating such vocabulary in terms of translator education at the graduate level. The analysis was made on the basis of the Polish translation of the poem Мороз и морозец by S.V. Mikhalkov translated by L. Lewin. In order to compare the relationship between the text’s reception and the density of ambiguous vocabulary the author confronts the reactions of actual readers to the two translations – Lewin’s and her own. While the former is dense in ambiguous items, the latter is, on purpose, lexically simple. The participants of the study, children, were asked questions and involved in a discussion focusing on meanings of selected words and their impressions from the reception of the two translations. The interview led to conclusions on the influence of potentially ambiguous vocabulary on the actual reception of the whole text.
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The article is devoted to the preservation of survival (vitality) of the Russian language through the prism of translational literature, which is created by ethnically non-Russian authors. The author of the article is trying to prove that the survival of the Russian language depends not only on territorial and demographic factors, but also on translingual (Russian-language literature). In the fiction of Russian-speaking authors, the Russian language is a translator of a worldview that is not inherent in native speakers of the Russian language and culture.
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The object of the research is one of the first two modern Bulgarian textbooks on letter writing – „Pismennik obshtepolezen“ („A Letter Writing Handbook of General Use“), 1835, by the prominent Revival pedagogue Hristaki Pavlovich. The book on letters is presented in the context of the cultural and historical situation in the second quarter of the 19th century, and from the point of view of the changes in the Bulgarian school, where new teaching methods and “modern sciences” were introduced. The article analyzes the theoretical part of „Pismennik obshtepolezen“, which contains instructions and rules for writing letters, and groups the types of letters and their components. Based on some statements by the author, conclusions are drawn about his views on ethical, social and pedagogical issues.
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The article analyses an Athonite poetical text which describes a conflict between the monasteries of Zographou and Chilandar over landed property situated inside the Holy Mountain. It refers to no place names, but pays special attention to the visit of a nameless Ottoman governor of Thessalonica, accompanied by the consuls of France, Russia and Austria, to Mount Athos. His intention was to solve the difference and to reconcile the two monasteries, but his efforts failed. He then granted a special document (ilam) to Zographou, and met an unnamed ex-patriarch of Constantinople in the monastery of Espigmenou. The authorized representatives of Zographou and Chilandar, Dositheos and Onouphrios, travelled to Constantinople in order to present the case to the sultan’s court, but during their stay in Istanbul cholera struck the city and the final decision was postponed until the end of the epidemy. Three Greek and two Turkish documents make it clear that Zographou and Chilandar were claiming the terrain of Giovantza on the northwest coast of Mount Athos as well as that the conflict was rather important for the two monasteries.
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The aim of our study is to examine the multiple ways Greek immigrants position themselves in terms of cultural identity. Recent approaches to immigrants’ cultural identities tend to employ the concept of transnationalism to account for their hybridity and fluidity. Here, we intend to show that Georg Simmel’s ([1908] 1971) notion of the ‘stranger’ is also relevant to the analysis and interpretation of such transnational identities. In this context, and drawing on positioning theory (Davies and Harré 1990), we argue that our informants mainly construct hybrid ‘stranger’ identities as both Greeks and Canadians or as feeling Greek but not when in Greece. Our data consists of 15 semi-structured interviews exploring the immigrant experiences of Greeks who migrated to Canada from the mid-1940s until the late 1970s. The analysis focuses on (a) the discursive means the informants employ to construct the hybrid identity of the ‘stranger’, and (b) the specific purposes they fulfill. It appears that hybrid self-positionings are achieved via the use of (a) the disclaimer ‘I am/feel Greek but…’, (b) metaphors, (c) small stories, and (d) repair mechanisms. We also argue that, via constructing ‘stranger’ identities, the immigrants of our data claim Greekness, on the one hand, and legitimize themselves as Canadian citizens on the other, while also distancing themselves from the Greeks living in Greece and the respective negative stereotypes.
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The paper analyses e-books and – contextually – animated films about the coronavirus pandemic in the light of the research on children’s informational books. The first part of the article is to outline the terminology and definitions fostered in the Polish scholarly discourse. The second part provides a proper analysis of selected works available in Polish. Three important elements of children’s informational books are discussed: the use of illustrations, inclusion of fictional elements, and presentation of the current state of knowledge.
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The review article is devoted to the monograph Baśni przeobrażone. Transformacje bajki i baśni w polskiej epice po 1989 roku [Fairy Tales Transformed: The Metamorphosis of Fairy Tales in Polish Literature after 1989] (2020). Its author, Magdalena Bednarek, shows the potential of the fairy tale (but also the animal tale, the folktale, etc.), consisting in the penetration of its various elements into diverse dimensions of a literary work and the specific organisation of its structure, and the construction of plots, meanings, and characters. Bednarek’s research material was, above all, realistic prose addressed to adult readers – functioning in various cultural circles – published in Poland over the last thirty years. The article reflects on the author’s way of selecting literary sources and the applied terminology (including bajka as a superior category for diverse genres, ‘anti-fairy tale,’ ‘retelling,’ ‘rewriting’). Three perspectives were also analysed from which Bednarek considered (largely in the context of feminist criticism) the forms of the presence of fairy tales in Polish realistic prose: (1) genre metamorphoses of fairy tales, (2) transformations of popular motifs, (3) transformations of characters (mainly heroines).
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Badanie napisów jest młodą dyscypliną naukową. Nie ma wielu publikacji analizujących i prezentujących kwestię tłumaczenia audiowizualnego, w szczególności napisów filmowych/teatralnych. Dlatego nie ma wielu źródeł istotnych informacji dotyczących problemu. Przykłady zawarte w tym tekście pochodzą z autorskiej obserwacji filmów i spektakli teatralnych. Autor odwołuje się do badań przeprowadzonych wśród kinomanów podzielonych na trzy grupy – osoby z wykształceniem filologicznym, osoby z wykształceniem uniwersyteckim oraz osoby bez wykształcenia uniwersyteckiego. Tekst dotyczy także napisów z przedstawień teatralnych (Teatr Dramatyczny, Teatr Studio, Nowy Teatr). Wybrano następujące spektakle. Kabaret J. Kandera, Rosyjski kontrakt Andrieja Płatonowa. Ciekawy przypadek psa wieczorową porą Simona Stephensa, Biedny Ja, Suka i Jej nowy koleś Michała Walczaka, Nasza klasa autorstwa Tadeusza Słobodzianka oraz Bent Martina Shermana. W kolejnych częściach artykułu autor przedstawia realia dotyczące etapów tworzenia napisów filmowych lub przygotowania nadtytułów teatralnych i ich weryfikacji. Odpowiada na pytanie, kto, kiedy i jak ocenia te napisy. // Subtitles research is a young discipline in the field of science. There are not many publications analyzing and presenting the issue of audiovisual translation, in particular film/ theatre subtitles. Therefore, there are not many sources of relevant information concerning the issue. Examples included in this text come from the author’s observation of films and theatre performances. The author makes reference to the research conducted among moviegoers divided into three groups – people with philological educational background, people with university background, and people without any university education. The text also relates to subtitles from theatre performances (Teatr Dramatyczny, Teatr Studio, Nowy Teatr). The following performances were chosen: Cabaret by J. Kander, The Russian Contract, by Andrei Platonov, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simom Stephens, Poor Me, the Bitch, and Her New Guy by Michał Walczak, Our Class by Tadeusz Słobodzianek and Bent by Martin Sherman. In the following sections of the paper, the author presents realia concerning the stages of film subtitles or theatrical supertitles preparation and their verification. He addresses the question who, when and how evaluates these subtitles.
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Komunikacja niewerbalna towarzyszy bezpośredniej ustnej komunikacji werbalnej. Niewerbalne środki komunikacyjne, konstytuujące style komunikacyjne kulturowo uwarunkowane, są zjawiskiem, którego nie sposób pominąć również w przekładzie. Przekład, w szczególności audiowizualny i ustny, sprzyja poznawaniu niewerbalnych stylów, m.in. w zakresie kinezyki, chronemiki, proksemiki, pantomimiki, haptyki pochodzących z innych obszarów kulturowych. Oprócz funkcji poznawczej niewerbalne style komunikacyjne pełnią funkcję wspomagającą proces tłumaczenia (np. ustnego). Niekiedy niewerbalne środki komunikacyjne pomagają zweryfikować jakość przetłumaczonego przekazu werbalnego. // Nonverbal communication accompanies direct oral verbal communication. The means of nonverbal communication, constituting culturally determined communication styles are a phenomenon which cannot be overlooked in translation. Translation, in particular audiovisual and interpretation, helps to become familiar with nonverbal styles, inter alia relating to kinesics, chronemics, proxemics, pantomimics, haptics from other spaces of culture. Apart from a cognitive function, nonverbal communication styles also serve an auxiliary function in the translation process (e.g. oral translation). Sometimes nonverbal communication styles help to verify the quality of translated verbal communication.
More...Tomasz Włodarski Evaluative Insights into Lives: Towards a Cognitive and Axiological Analysis of Obituaries. Series: Languages in Contact No. 6. Wrocław 2016: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Filologicznej we Wrocławiu, pp. 227.
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