Български просветно-книжовни школи в житиеписните творби от старобългарската литература в периода IX - XVI век

Author(s): Elitsa Petrova,Stoyan Dolapchiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

Bulgarian literary schools in hagiography works of Old Bulgarian literature in the period IX – XVI century were subject of analysis and comment of literary and historical perspectives. From the positions of the history of pedagogy and Bulgarian education they have not been the subject of extensive research. The study aimed to present the Bulgarian literary schools and education in them during the Middle Ages, according to data from the old Bulgarian hagiographic literature. The object of the research is education, training and education in Bulgarian literary schools in hagiography works of Old Bulgarian literature in the period of IX – XVI century.

Ефективни стратегии и техники за развитие на умението за създаване на писмен текст на чужд език в гимназиален етап

Author(s): Nina Lyutsova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

The purpose of the following study is to review the literature on the topic and to present a pedagogical experience of integrating effective techniques for developing writing skills in English as a foreign language. The experiment was carried out with 24 eight grade students (experimental group) of the Maths and Science High school“Academician Ivan Gyuzelev” – Gabrovo provided with an intensive learning curriculum for English as a foreign language. The techniques which are applied in the experiment focus on the development of language knowledge(product writing) and teaching students to create written texts by drafting, reviewing, editing and redrafting (process writing). In addition to these, the analysis of the characteristics of an email text type (genre writing) was also used to evaluate the students’ comprehension. The review of literary sources and the presented pedagogical experiment are a part of a didactically experimental model for developing foreign language writing skills.The purpose of the following study is to review the literature on the topic and to present a pedagogical experience of integrating effective techniques for developing writing skills in English as a foreign language. The experiment was carried out with 24 eight grade students (experimental group) of the Maths and Science High school “Academician Ivan Gyuzelev” – Gabrovo provided with an intensive learning curriculum for English as a foreign language. The techniques which are applied in the experiment focus on the development of language knowledge(product writing) and teaching students to create written texts by drafting, reviewing, editing and redrafting (process writing). In addition to these, the analysis of the characteristics of an email text type (genre writing) was also used to evaluate the students’ comprehension. The review of literary sources and the presented pedagogical experiment are a part of a didactically experimental model for developing foreign language writing skills.

Художествени текстове в чуждоезиковото обучение. (Върху Language trainer O. Henry (abridged). Short stories and six tests)

Author(s): Gergana Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Using literature in English language training provides a large number of advantages for learners such as developing their reading skills, contributing to better understanding of the foreign language, and providing an authentic model of language use. Combining reading with practice tests developed on the basis of the plotline,vocabulary, and grammar exhibited in each story can produce numerous benefits for foreign language learners and it is an effective tool for consolidating knowledge and developing skills to use the foreign language in different situations.The Language Trainer series published by Koala Press implements the idea of combining literary texts with tests designed to consolidate the learners’ knowledge of the specific vocabulary and grammar used in them. Anumber of books have already been published in this series, among which is O. HENRY (ABRIDGED). SHORT STORIES AND SIX TESTS. It is intended for anyone learning English who wants to improve their knowledge and skills in English.Using literature in English language training provides a large number of advantages for learners such as developing their reading skills, contributing to better understanding of the foreign language, and providing an authentic model of language use. Combining reading with practice tests developed on the basis of the plotline,vocabulary, and grammar exhibited in each story can produce numerous benefits for foreign language learners and it is an effective tool for consolidating knowledge and developing skills to use the foreign language in different situations.The Language Trainer series published by Koala Press implements the idea of combining literary texts with tests designed to consolidate the learners’ knowledge of the specific vocabulary and grammar used in them. A number of books have already been published in this series, among which is O. HENRY (ABRIDGED). SHORT STORIES AND SIX TESTS. It is intended for anyone learning English who wants to improve their knowledge and skills in English.

Varia: Dramatization of Politics in the Age of Shakespeare

Author(s): Alexander Shurbanov / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The article is concerned with the relationship between politics and aesthetics within the context of English Renaissance drama. It is argued that during the Renaissance politics was very much at the centre of all aesthetic reconstructions of reality. Renaissance writers were keenly interested in the problematization of traditional Christian morality by the advent of political realism, and this interest can be found at every structural level of their works. The article examines the reflection of the issue in a recurrent binary pattern of contrasted characters in select plays by Marlowe and Shakespeare.

Petya Tsoneva. Negotiating Borderlines in Four Contemporary Migrant Writers from the Middle East. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. 257. ISBN (10): 1-5275-1606-7; ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-1606-9.

Author(s): Glyn Hambrook / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Медийният политически дискурс, или как корупцията на езика еволюира

Author(s): Anton Getsov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

The subject of the paper is the inevitable, utilitarian and effective symbiosis between power and language, which is a main precondition for the conversion from „language of power” to „language power”. „Cryptic language” is the basic mechanism by which „language of power” systematically and creatively modifies itself into „language power”, and corruption of language becomes corruption by language. Thus, logical, deductive, and conceptual thinking are neglected at the expense of emotions, imagination and sensory activity. This mechanism is a function of skilful and permanent interaction between media discourse and political discourse. It is an indisputable and eloquent manifestation of one of the new functions of language – realization of a hidden and intentional manipulative influence on the feelings, adjustments, prejudices, beliefs, thinking, and ultimately – on the societal behaviour.

Book Review: Dzhovani Kiaromani i negovoto patuvane ot Viena do Bursa prez 1659 g. / Giovanni Chiaromanni e il suo viaggio da Vienna a Bursa fatto l’anno1659 by Penka Danova

Author(s): Orlin Sabev / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Introduction

Author(s): Pádraigín Riggs,Ludmilla Kostova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Тенденции в използването на писмената разговорна реч при копирайтинг текстове в интернет

Author(s): Yordan Karapenchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

The report explores the current tendencies in creating copywriting texts in the Internet, as well as their similarities and differences with informal, verbal communication. The report provides a definition of the copywriting text and its functions in the media environment and studies the tendencies in the creation of written informal texts. Based on this research, can be outlined three tendencies in the creation of copywriting texts. First – a tendency towards minimizations, characterized by an elision of sounds, short sentences and abbreviations. Second – a tendency towards excess, characterized by the use of multiple figures of speech and repetitions. Third – a tendency towards uniqueness, characterized by informal language, digraphia (in Cyrillic and Latin) and extensive use of internet jargon.

Случай на редупликация в съвременната речева практика. Семантика, форма, произход

Author(s): Niya Radeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

The article analyses the reduplication from the type of laptops-maptops that we can come across in the modern speech practice. It divides the neologisms in four semantic groups, comments on the model and their use. It also makes a general comparison with such examples in Russian, Turkish and Afghanistan languages.

Фразеологизми с компонет етноним (върху материал от български говори в Бесарабия, Украйна)

Author(s): Praskoviya Ruseva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

Idioms containing ethnonyms found in the dialects of Bulgarian villages in Bessarabia, Ukraine, are analyzed in the article. An attempt to find equivalents in the lexicographic sources in Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Russian phraseology was made. The frequency of their use was studied, as well as the degree of the motivation for their nomination in the following classification.

Стилизация на устна комуникация в български художествени текстове

Author(s): Maria Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2013

In the present paper the problems of the stylization of the oral communication in a literary text are interpreted. The observations upon the works of modern Bulgarian authors aim at determining the preferable means of stylization. In the first place the characteristics of the direct and inner speech are studied to this end, that the boundary between oral and written communication is overcome in these speech forms.

Безлични структури със съществителното име кеф и производни от него глаголи

Author(s): Anita Todoranova-Dushkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2013

This article analyses the registered uses of the noun gusto in the informal speech, as well as its derivative verbs. The observation is focused on the impersonal structures of the sentence, in which these lexemes are used. An attempt has been made to describe the different (compared to the codified formal language) meaning, with which they are used in the habitual communication.

Акустичка анализа рефлекса jата у иjекавском изговору српског jезика (регионалне вариjанте)

Author(s): Aleksandra Lonchar Raichevich / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2013

The nature of ijekavian yat reflexes and by the same token, of stresses, still poses a scientific problem. Most recordings of the long yat reflexes so far are based on auditive perceptions. Founding the research on a computer experiment, this paper describes and defines the nature of the rising intonation stresses and the phonetic value of the long yat substitutes. The informants are intellectuals reliable representatives of literary (i)jekavism.

Максими за учтивост в речите на Саад Ал-Харири и Франсоа Оланд относно бежанците

Author(s): Mohammed Abdulsada,Balsam Yacoub / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2022

This study explores the politeness maxims implied in two refugee-centric speeches given by Lebanese prime minister Saad Al-Hariri and French president François Hollande. Drawing on Leech’s (1983) six-maxim politeness approach, the study aims at recognizing these maxims, describing their forms, and uncovering the intended purposes. The research, additionally, elaborates on sympathy as a key element in the pragmatic analysis of the two speeches sampled for analysis. To do so, a careful investigation of the words, phrases, and sentences is conducted so as to sort and highlight all sympathetic forms. Then, a brief comparison is made between the two speeches in terms of sympathy and politeness. To do so, a quali¬tative methodology is followed in the analysis, where frequencies are reached. First, the research intro¬duces the preliminaries of the study as to the definition of key terms, elaborates on politeness, draws on Leech’s politeness theory, and reviews a few related studies. Then, a sample of two speeches is chosen, analyzed, and investigated for politeness. Finally, the paper reaches a few conclusions and findings, in addition to some further studies. The paper finds that the two speeches under study are very sympathetic towards refugees and that the relevant references carry multiple forms of politeness maxims. The paper, also, reports a noticeable difference between the Arab discourse and the European discourse concerning refugees and their suffering.

Joseph Conrad’s Adventure with English

Author(s): Joanna Skolik / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

This article discusses Conrad’s Anglophone linguistic identity to show how writing became his “promised land” and fictional homeplace. This fictional retreat reflects his childhood experience, (connected with his Polish background), hopes, and fears, but it is likewise refracted through episodes of his later life. Conrad’s own articulation of his complex relation to English, England, and his own nationality, reveals his outlook on literature and language: “When speaking, writing or thinking in English the word Home always means for me the hospitable shores of Great Britain” (𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐿𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 1:12) and “Both at sea and on land, my point of view is English, from which the conclusion should not be drawn that I have become an Englishman. That is not the case.𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑜 𝑑𝑢𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑥 has in my case more than one meaning” (Najder,𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑟𝑎𝑑‘𝑠 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 240).

Illustrating Death in Caitlin Doughty’s Creative Nonfiction: 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 and 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑀𝑦 𝐶𝑎𝑡 𝐸𝑎𝑡 𝑀𝑦 𝐸𝑦𝑒𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠?

Author(s): Cristina-Mihaela Botîlcă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The purpose of illustrations is to enhance the reading experience, improve the text, and add another layer of representation. In death-acceptance literature, such as Caitlin Doughty’s creative nonfiction books 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 and 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑀𝑦 𝐶𝑎𝑡 𝐸𝑎𝑡 𝑀𝑦 𝐸𝑦𝑒𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠?, illustrations portray the highly sensitive topic of death. Landis Blair and Dianné Ruz, the illustrators whose works complete the two books, create a multimodal text with the help of literal and conceptual illustrations. This article aims at analysing the use and structure of these illustrations in the context of multimodality and death acceptance. In addition, the paper also contains two interviews that are meant to offer the perspective of the two illustrators on their own work and on illustrating death in nonfiction.

Функционално-семантично поле на „междуметността“ в българския и руския език

Author(s): Krasimira Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: Special/2023

In this contrastive study on interjections and onomatopoeic expressions in Bulgarian and Russian, I propose a field principle for the organisation of units serving as interjections based on a relevant functional-semantic field. The classification, mixed in nature, is founded on a structural principle (simple and complex interjections) and takes into account the origin of the units under consideration (primary non-derivative and secondary derivative interjections). Within the scope of this classification, a more detailed division based on semantic and functional principles is proposed. The field of interjections is polycentric, with a core consisting of prototypical emotional interjections and onomatopoeic words and expressions, and a periphery comprising other lexical-grammatical groups of interjections – imperatives, directives, vocatives, wishes, exclamations and other formulas used during worship, as well as multiword expressions – idioms, collocations and sentences – that gradually blend into other types of written and spoken language units.

НЕКОИ ПРАШАЊА ОКОЛУ ИСПРАЌАЊЕТО И ГРИЖАТА ЗА УЧИТЕЛИТЕ ОД НАРОДНА РЕПУБЛИКА МАКЕДОНИЈА НА РАБОТА ВО ПИРИНСКИОТ ДЕЛ НА МАКЕДОНИЈА ВО УЧЕБНАТА 1947/1948 ГОДИНА

Author(s): Evgenij Litovski / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 1-2/2022

After the Bled agreements between Josip Broz Tito and Georgi Dimitrov, the cultural autonomy for the Macedonians in Pirin Macedonia began. This meant that Macedonians were allowed to study Macedonian literary language in the schools in Bulgaria. But as there was much opposition to this from Bulgaria, long negotiations between the two sides took place. Because of that, the Ministry of Education in the People’s Republic of Macedonia started to hire teachers and send them in Pirin Macedonia to work in the schools there. There were also negotiations about some problems between Central Committee of Communist Party of Macedonia and the Ministry of Education of Bulgaria. The negotiations were fruitful and the teachers started their job. Also, when the teachers were in Pirin Macedonia, every problem they had was solved with the help of the Ministry of Education of PRM.

Tuđina kao dom ili dom kao tuđina u romanu Crnoturci Huseina Bašića

Author(s): Miluša Bakrač / Language(s): Montenegrine Issue: 91-92/2023

U radu će se dati prikaz slike ,,drugih“ kroz koju se defi nišu kulturna posebnost, kulturna raznolikost i kulturna sličnost utemeljene na smjeni turske crnogorskom kulturom nakon oslobođenja Nikšića od Turaka pred Berlinski kongres 1878. (Poslije slavnih pobjeda nad turskom vojskom, na Vučjem dolu 1876. godine, u Dugi nikšićkoj i Ostroškom klancu 1877. godine, koje je slavila sva Evropa, 9. septembra 1877. godine oslobođen je Nikšić. U gradu je prije oslobođenja bilo 3.000- 4.000 stanovnika (V.Klaić, 1878., str. 93). Bilo je samo 40 hrišćanskih porodica. U selima u ravni polja i obodu bilo je 1800 starosjedilačkog stanovništva. Oslobađanjem od Turaka konačno je nestalo izolacije Nikšića i Nikšićkog kraja od široke okoline... Tada je još jednom došlo do mijenjanja skoro cjelokupnog stanovništva. Od muslimanskih porodica ostalo je svega 19. Ostali su odselili pretežno za Skadar, a kasnije za Tursku. Nikšićki kraj naseljavaju učesnici u borbama za njegovo oslobođenje.(Radojičić 1982:113)