Caucasian and Semitic Influences in the Early Medieval Bulgarian “Runic Inscriptions”

Author(s): Hristo Saldzhiev / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The present article is focused on the similarities existing between some of the characters of the Caucasian Albanian script and some of the graphemes of the so called “runic inscriptions” from the 10th century Bulgarian rock monasteries from Murfatlar and Krepcha. The similarities in question do not only concern the shape of some of the “runic graphemes”. Obvious parallels between the designations of the Caucasian Albanian characters and the “ordinal numerals” from the Proto-Bulgarian calendar are discussed, too. After analyzing these similarities and making a critical discussion on the different attempts at etymologizations of “the ordinal numerals” of the calendar on the ground of the Turkic -r/-l languages, I conclude that the numerals reflect designations of letters from an unknown writing system created for some of the clan languages of the Proto-Bulgarians and partly or entirely based on Caucasian and Semitic written traditions.

Annual International Scientific Conference of The Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin Institute for Bulgarian Language at The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 15-16 May 2023

Author(s): Simeon Stefanov / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

За книгата: Галин Тиханов. Световна литература. Космополитизъм. Изгнание. София, Кралица Маб, 2022, 428 с.

Author(s): Radeya Gesheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Book review: Galin Tihanov. World Literature, Cosmopolitism, Exile. Sofia, Kralitsa Mab, 2022.

За книгата: Владимир Сабоурин. Студии. 2023, 750 с., ISBN: 9786199178348.

Author(s): Maria Endreva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Book review: Vladimir Sabourín. Studies. 2023

За книгата: Антоанета Робова. Творчески фигури и кръговрат на изкуствата в прозата на Ерик-Еманюел Шмит. София, Унив. изд. „Св. Климент Охридски“, 2022, 304 с., ISBN 978-954-07-5505-2

Author(s): Margarita Serafimova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Book review: Antoaneta Robova. Artistic Characters and Cycle of Arts in Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s Prose Writings. Sofia, St Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2022, 304 p., ISBN 978-954-07-5505-2

За книгата: Ангел Валентинов Ангелов. Филология, литература и символна география на Европа: Ерих Ауербах, Лео Шпитцер, Едуард Саид, Стефан Цвайг, Хуго фон Хофманстал. София, Булгед, 2022, 364 с.

Author(s): Todor Hristov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Book review: Angel V. Angelov. Philology, Literature and Symbolic Geography of Europe: Erich Auerbach, Leo Spitzer, Edward Said, Stefan Zweig, Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Sofia, Bulged, 2022.

За книгата: Надежда Стоянова. Украси и гримаси. Мода и модерност в българската литература от 20-те и 30-те години на ХХ век. София, Изд. „Парадигма“, 2022, 378 с.

Author(s): Alexander Hristov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Book review: Nadezhda Stoyanova. Adornments and Grimaces. Fashion and Modernity in 1920s and 1930s Bulgarian Literature. Sofia, Paradigma Press, 2022

За книгата: Миглена Николчина. Бог с машина. Изваждане на човека (от романтизма до трансхуманизма). София, „Версус“, 2022.

Author(s): Kamelia Spassova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Book review: Miglena Nikolchina, God with Machine. Subtracting the Human (From Romanticism to Transhumanism). Sofia, Versus Publishing, 2022

„Плът“ (𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑜) и „дух“ (𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑠) в Писмо 24 на Павлин от Нола († 431)

Author(s): Rosen Milanov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

There is one letter in the epistolary corpus of Paulinus of Nola († 431) where the views of the Late Antique Western writer about the place and meaning of flesh and spirit in the life of Christians, and especially in ascetic life, are expressed with utmost clarity. One part of this letter is based on the 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑠ℎ (𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑜) – 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡 (𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑠) antithesis. In this context, body/parts of a body (𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑢𝑠/𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑎) can be a synonym of flesh, and mind (𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑠) can be a synonym of spirit. This paper explores Paulinus’s concepts about the flesh and the spirit in contrast to the dualistic teachings in Antiquity and in later periods. The levels of usage of these two words and the various senses which could be instilled in them are discussed as well. Everything is examined in the context of asceticism and Christian perfection (as far as it is attainable by humans), to which Letter 24 is dedicated.

Book Review

Author(s): Tianli Zhou / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

What did the Portuguese laugh at 200 years ago?

Author(s): João Pedro Rosa Ferreira / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

This article aims to identify the existence of a laughter community in Portugal in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Based on research into the beginnings of humour in periodicals published in Portugal, a corpus consisting of newspapers published between 1797 and 1835 was analysed, from the first in which humour was used systematically as a resource (Almocreve de Petas) until the establishment of the Constitutional Monarchy. With the concept of laughter community in mind, evidence was sought that it was present in the period that covers the political, social and economic transition from the Ancien Régime to modern society, having as main players writers, editors, printers, readers and listeners, in a process of production, reception, circulation and appropriation of ideas and meanings. This process, which developed in the public sphere, also played a part in forming incipient public opinion. To detect evidence of this community, clichés, jocular expressions and comic stories conveyed by the periodicals were identified. Very often they were found to have kept the same meaning they had at the time, while some expressions have survived with slight changes, and others simply no longer make people laugh.

Book review

Author(s): Kristina Stankevičiūtė / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Morphological Patterns of Logistics Term Formation. Derivation

Author(s): Galina Velikova / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2023

This paper focuses on morphological patterns of logistics term formation in English and Bulgarian terminology concentrating mainly on derivation. The analysis and conclusions reached relate to a detailed exploration into the English and Bulgarian logistics terminological systems with regard to the tendencies in their development. It applies a comparative approach on the basis of the principles of synchronicity and systematicity when relating English terms to their Bulgarian equivalents and discusses the meanings of the most productive prefixes and suffixes recurrent in them. The findings can be relevant when teaching English for Logistics.

Енантиосемия – систематизиране и видове в сравнителен план

Author(s): Magdalena Nikolova-Tsaneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

The paper discusses the phenomenon of enantiosemy in linguistics – its nature, appearance and belonging to one of the following groups: polysemy, homonymy or antonymy. The enantiosemy theme has been in the scope of linguists for more than century and a half. At the beginning it was believed that this phenomenon could be examined only in Slavic languages, because some of the first findings for it were in Russian, Chech and Bulgarian. Nowadays enantiosemy examples are excerpted in French, German, English and other non – Slavic languages. It is an attempt to classify different research approaches and to describe a new type of enantiosemy, from a contrastive perspective, which in this paper is called affixal enantiosemy. In accordance with a certain context, the affixal enantiosemy clarifies the semantics of the affix which is part of a lexeme.

Общие трудности разных категорий говорящих при употреблении русских имен существительных и именных словосочетаний

Author(s): Galina Shamonina,Leonid Moskovkin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2023

The purpose of the study is to resolve the issue of whether there are difficulties of the Russian language that are common to different categories of learners of this language. Research methods are identification and comparative analysis of deviations from the norms in the use of nouns and noun phrases. The material of the study is data from observations of oral speech, written works, transcripts of recordings of stories based on pictures. The objects of analysis are the facts of deviations from the norms in the use of nouns and noun phrases in the speech of foreigners who study Russian as a second language, Russian-German bilinguals at the age of 10-15 years, Russian monolinguals at the age of 10 – 15 years. As a result of the study, the most typical similar grammatical errors were identified, indicating the general difficulties of the Russian language: the replacement of some case forms by others, the replacement of some forms by others within the same case, the replacement of prepositions, the mixing of possessive pronouns, violations of the agreement between the main and dependent words. The study has confirmed the hypothesis that there are common difficulties of the Russian language, which do not depend on the native language of students and are due to the structural diversity of the grammatical phenomena of the Russian language.

Международен научен форум за книжовното наследство на Константин Преславски в светлината на съвременната палеославистика

Author(s): Georgi Mitov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

Международна научна конференция „Кирило-Методиевото дело в научната и културната памет“

Author(s): Desislava Naydenova,Lyuba Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

Светлана Толстая на 85 години

Author(s): Ekaterina Anastasova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

Дмитрий Буланин на 70 години

Author(s): Anisava Miltenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

In memoriam Георги Попов

Author(s): Tatyana Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023