„Родини“ и „родина“ в латинската християнска литература на IV–Vвек

Author(s): Rosen Milanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

The turbulent – in a historical sense – era of ІV–V cc. was at the same time the Golden Age of Christian literature. The issue of the Roman Empire, which was the homeland of most of the Church authors at that time, is discussed in the Latin Christian literary works of this period. What was the attitude of the Christian writers towards the political entities, which called themselves „homelands“? What kind of travels did the Christians during ІV–V cc. undertake, what were the reasons for them and what was their purpose? And finally, what did the Christians actually strive for in their journeys and in their lifetime as a whole? The following paper aims to answer these questions.

Европейски образи на Китай до края на деветнадесети век: общ преглед

Author(s): Pavel Petkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

The paper discusses the images of China from their earliest appearance in European sources of information about the empire (known as Cathay and also as the land of the Seres) up to the end of the nineteenth century. It traces the development of these images through the centuries and examines how they have changed in accordance with the varying ways in which the representatives of the West have looked upon the world. Special attention has been given to the cyclic nature of image creation. The individual authors have been grouped in several sections discussing the different periods of communication and interaction.

Две непознати илюстрации от Хенрик Дембицки с българска тематика

Author(s): Kamen Rikev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

The paper reveals and analyses two illustrations by the Polish painter Henryk Dêbicki (1830–1906) on the Serbo-Bulgarian War, published in the popular Warsaw newspaper Tygodnik Ilustrowany in 1885 and 1886 and unknown to Bulgarian scholars. The illustrations prove that Dêbicki, known for his previous cooperation with Bulgarian revolutionary Hristo Botev, continued to work on Bulgaria-related graphics after the country’s liberation in 1878. The author, however, doubts that the illustrator had experienced the war directly and claims that despite being referred to as the paper’s special correspondent, Dêbicki is unlikely to have visited Bulgarian territories.

„[...] Едно пътуване [...], което не бе завръщане“ За структурата на паметта в „Гласовете от Маракеш“ (1967) на Елиас Канети

Author(s): Matjaž Birk / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Die Stimmen von Marrakesch (1967) is one of the characteristic texts produced by Bulgarian-born Austrian writer and Nobel prize winner Elias Canetti. On the one hand, his Aufzeichnungen nach einer Reise (A Record of a Visit) lays the foundations of the aphoristic style of his multi-volume “records”, and, on the other hand, is imbedded in the European tradition of travel writing as a genre dedicated to memoir culture. The paper traces the rhetoric of memory as a narrative principle, unifying the impressions of the traveller as a by-standing observer of the real journey, his reflections on the stories further developed in his imagination and his rhetorical devices for the articulation of universal human ideas.

Георги Ингилизов и българската маринистика

Author(s): Margreta Grigorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

The paper presents maritime writer Georgi Ingilizov’s (1955–2018) concepts, ideas and initiatives (editorial activity, filmography) related to the status of Bulgarian maritime fiction and its place in Bulgarian literature. The paper also traces the maritime writer’s creative path and addresses the main aspects of his maritime prose related to sailors’ values and problems. The text corresponds to an interview with the author, published in this issue.

Реконструкция на имена за места (nomina loci), мотивирани от названия на плодове въз основа на топонимни данни

Author(s): Maya Vlahova-Angelova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

The naming of places according to local vegetation is a universal way of creating toponyms, a considerable part of which is derived from common names of localities, denoting ‘a place where a particular plant (fruit) grows’. Studying such toponyms can enrich the current locality-labelling data with new, hitherto unknown ones, as well as complete the pattern of the folk taxonomy of fruit. Nomina loci, as a separate word formation category, is well studied in both literary Bulgarian and its dialects. The present study aims to reconstruct the common names of localities, motivated by names of fruit, which have been preserved in Northern Bulgaria toponymy. There is a list of locality names derived from different kinds of toponyms. Some of these names expand the currently known ‘nomina loci’ word formation categories by providing new names. The analyses also show that the toponymy has preserved a fair number of archaic lexemes, formed through rare and antiquated suffixes with a locative function, which have not been registered in earlier research of locality names.

За видовете интернет форуми по съдържание

Author(s): Rusin Kotsev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

Тhe paper is an attempt to overcome the asymmetry in the descriptions of web forums as a genre of Internet communication. It supports the classification based on content by challenging the differentiation of forums according to their communicative goals.

Продуктивни модели на валентна вариативност в английския и българския език

Author(s): Svilen Stanchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

It is conventional in traditional structural linguistics to assume that one verb may occur in different syntagmatic realizations, such as ‘He closed the door – The door closed’ or ‘She stopped the car – The car stopped’. Dik’s (1997) Functional Grammar postulates a differentiation between the semantic component of a verbal lexeme and its predicate frame. The latter may undergo variation in terms of reduction or extension without affecting the semantic core which remains unchanged. This paper outlines typical productive patterns of valence variation – predicate frame reduction or extension, in processes of verbal derivation in English and Bulgarian. The functional analysis applied here offers an innovative account and subsumes within one theoretical model a wide gamut of phenomena, such as structures with a ‘locative Object’, ‘free datives’ or the Bulgarian ‘dative of disposition’.

Метафората „турско робство“ – концепт на националната култура

Author(s): Strashimir Tsanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

The article deals with the role of the “Turkish yoke” metaphor in historiography, history textbooks, and Bulgarian national culture. The analysis leads to the conclusion that “Turkish yoke” is not the most suitable term for naming the historical period during which Bulgarians had no state of their own for nearly five centuries. Although historically imprecise, the metaphor is defined as an important concept of national culture, representing the mindset of the Bulgarian elite during the High Renaissance period. The understanding of the historical logic behind the term “Turkish yoke” is very important for preserving correct historical memory of the events of the third quarter of the nineteenth century. The text concludes that the “Turkish yoke” metaphor symbolizes the nоn-slave consciousness of those Bulgarians who had accepted the ideas of national revolution.

Категориите „добро“ и „лошо“ в българския език на базата на представите за енергия, сила, контрол, баланс и равновесие

Author(s): Miroslava Vatova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

The present paper deals with the concepts of GOOD and BAD as reflected in the Bulgarian lexical system from the standpoint of Cognitive Metaphor Theory, developed by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson. The study is based on the view that the concepts of GOOD and BAD undoubtedly belong to the natural kind of human experience, but nevertheless require definition by means of metaphors as the concepts do not exist objectively in the physical world but emerge from human understanding. The linguistic data elucidate metaphors based on image schemata for ENERGY, FORCE, CONTROL, BALANCE and EQUILIBRIUM on which the conceptualization of the notions under scrutiny here is based in the minds of Bulgarians.

Еволюция на представите на бесарабските българи за етноидентификационните възможности на родноезиковото образование в поликултурна среда

Author(s): Elena Raceeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The present paper provides a historical perspective of representations of Bulgarian immigrants in Bessarabia and their descendants on how it is possible to preserve their own ethno-cultural identity in the conditions of a multiethnic environment, how to resist assimilation, and subsequently – what tasks have the community and its leaders assigned to native language education. Several attempts by Bulgarian immigrants to organize native language education are considered; the author analyzes whether – and to what extent – there were special requirements for the content of the training. Summing up the history of the education of the Bessarabian Bulgarians, we can conclude that it is in fact a history of contradictions between the aspirations of Bulgarians to teach their children in their native language and the state policy of Russia, Romania, the USSR and the Republic of Moldova. Based on the documentation and scholarly papers on the issue at hand, the following conclusions have been made: until the 1930s, the very right to learn one’s native language was denied per se, whereas recognizing the ethno-identification content of the native language as well as understanding the need to overcome ethnocentrism in the process of teaching and learning the native language and culture have been characteristics of the late 20th and early 21st centuries

Отношението текст – смисъл в „Над Ботевия стих“ на Илия Тодоров

Author(s): Aleksandar Hristov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The paper examines Iliya Todorov’s book “On Botev’s verse”. I focus both on the researcher’s conclusions, generalizations and statements, and on the various mechanisms through which he arrives at them. The paper discusses Todorov’s analyses of the existential status of the poems, their variations, the editions in which they were published, the numerous editorial interventions. It raises questions concerning our idea of the poet – how we understand and think about his genius, how we perceive and read his poetic legacy; it also discusses the role of the author with regard to authenticity and tradition.

За Ботевия роман на революцията (за Христо Ботев. Да драснем кибрита на въстанието…)

Author(s): Antonia Velkova-Gaydarzhieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

Фантастично и фантасмагорично в контекста на романтическата традиция

Author(s): Boris Minkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The present study attempts to abandon the genre-related discussion of the fantastic. For this purpose, it develops a working concept of phantasmagoria: image projection of cognitive universalia which have been frozen after passing throught the prism of the ironic turn. To trace the various characteristics of the phantasmagorical, the article provides examples from the work of Е. T. A. Hoffmann, Clemens Brentano, Wilhelm Hauff and Heinrich Heine. In relation to the romantic tradition of phantasmagoria after the 19th century, it discusses Stanisіaw Lem’s The Star Diaries. An essential point in the study is the contention that phantasmagoria is unrelated to the ‘realistic art-unrealistic art’ opposition.

Съвременна българска бесарабска проза или как литературата разказва историята

Author(s): Elena Nalbantova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

This article discusses fiction novels that have been written in Bulgarian since the 1960s by Bessarabian Bulgarians, focusing on topics related to the life of Bulgarian expats in Bessarabia. The Bulgarian Bessarabian literature from this period is defined as contemporary. This article reconstructs the historical context as interpreted in two different ways: as events that found their way into the narratives, and as circumstances, which enforced both the selection of topics and their interpretation, and at the same time the literary canon that shaped the texts. The article concludes that the depiction of historical events in the novels of P.Trufkin, P. Burlak-Valkanov, Iv. Valkov, Il. Valkov, I. Nenov, A. Maleshkova and N. Kurtev conforms to extraliterary factors: ideology, geopolitical interests of neighboring countries, civilizational pessimism.

Дискусионни аспекти на теорията за ориентализма на Едуард Саид

Author(s): Pavel Petkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

In recent decades Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism has been dominating the imagological research of representations of the East. Although his theoretical model has long been almost unanimously accepted, it should not be applied uncritically – both because of the enormous diversity of the texts dealing with the Orient and because of the presence of a few debatable elements in the theoretical structure itself. This article examines some of these elements, focusing on the absence of certain orientalist research traditions from Said’s model and on his assertion that everything that people can know has in fact been constructed in their own mind.

Международна конференция „Актуални теоретико-методологически проблеми на изучаването и преподаването на славянски езици, литератури и култури“

Author(s): Valentina Sedefcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Функционална субституция на неафрикатен с африкатен обструент в устната практика на френския и българския език

Author(s): Veska Kirilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

The present study examines some cases of functional substitution of non-affricate with affricate obstruents in the oral practice of the French language, some of its diatopic and diastratic variations, as well as the manifestation of this process in the Bulgarian language. The study finds that the affrication concerns only the plosive obstruents ([t], [d], [k], [g]) in the French language, while the affrication in the Bulgarian language is observed both with plosive ([t], [d]) and fricative obstruents ([c], [з], [ш], [ж]). The terms ‚direct‘ and ‚indirect affrication‘ are introduced. The study analyzes the phonetic causes of the substitution process under consideration.

Универсальное и национально-специфическое в русских, болгарских и румынских пословицах с компонентами добро–зло, лучше–хуже, хорошо–плохо и их синонимами

Author(s): Elena Ratseeva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2020

The author uses the study of the axiological systems of the Russian, Bulgarian and Romanian paremiological pictures of the world based on proverbs with ‘good–evil’ components and their synonyms as a framework for researching proverbs and sayings of Bessarabian immigrants who have lived in a foreign Russian-Romanian ethnical context for over 200 years. This article describes and presents in a comparative way some Russian, Bulgarian and Romanian proverbs with the components ‘good–evil’ and their synonyms, obtained as a result of continuous sampling of the most complete representative sources. The author brings forward statistical characteristics of arrays paired with observations upon the universal and nationally specific traits at the conceptual, structural and discursive levels. Some entry-level comparative interpretation is carried out, building upon the Russian, Bulgarian and Romanian paremiological ideas about the essence of such categories as ‘good’ and ‘evil’, as well as the balance between these categories and the expected reactions to good and evil.

За някои славянски заемки във Вилнюския речник

Author(s): Anna Dąbrowska-Kamińska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

The study outlines some of the problems related to the description of foreign elements in cognate languages from the Polish dictionary i.e. Słownik wileński. In borderland areas there are differences specific to Polish, Belorussian, Ukrainian and Russian languages, which come from the Proto-Slavic language community. The article proposes to interpret and specify the semantics of separate lexemes functioning in the eastern borderlands during the 19th century.