Biblical and Anthropocentric Phraseologisms in Dmytro Dontsov’s Works: A Cognitive Aspect

Author(s): Oksana Mykytyuk / Language(s): English Issue: 34/2022

The paper deals with Dontsov’s “phraseological speech” in the framework of cognitive linguistics. The ways of creating partially-authorial (biblical) and authorial (anthropocentric) phraseologisms are discussed and their assignment to different phraseological-semantic microfields is suggested. A number of Dontsov’s phraseologisms are viewed as linguomental pictures of the world that are potentially acceptable for a wider use. Methodologically, the research presents a cluster of general scholarly methods and those used in cognitive linguistics as well as special approaches developed in modern anthropocentric research. Methods of cognitive linguistics are of the utmost importance and include categorizing the phenomena of the objective reality and the interdisciplinary method of interpretation related to the correlation of language data with cultural studies, political science, ethnopsychology and other disciplines. Semantic and contextual analyses are also used as supplementary methods. The potential value of the research is ensured by its contribution to the modern anthropocentric linguistics that aims at studying language through its speaker. Structural-and-logical scheme illustrating the cognitive stages of generating a phraseologism is suggested and the importance of categorization of lingual phenomena is emphasized. Dontsov’s phraseologisms are claimed to be means of exposure of the national Ukrainian lingual picture, symbols of the national worldview, and the prism of the world perception and understanding.

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.

THE LINGUISTIC TABOO IN ROMANIAN POETRY. SEXUALITY AND FEMINISM

Author(s): Alina Neculachi / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 31/2022

This paper aims to analyze the portrayal of two major themes in the Romanian contemporary poetry, namely sexuality and feminism, which are still regarded as being taboo.

Plichacz w beczce siwra Deusa o spas – słownictwo należące do kategorii „religia” w XIX‑wiecznej gwarze przestępczej

Author(s): Jarosław Grzegorz Pacuła / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11/2023

The object of observation is criminal jargon from the 19th century. The description concerns lexis belonging to the thematic field religion. The text shows little known (or even unknown) historical vocabulary of the environment. The author focuses on presenting the etymology of the collected words. Some remarks on the origin of words have the character of hypotheses and are a pretext for further discussion. The author excerpts linguistic material from Słownik mowy złodziejskiej by Antoni Kurka (1896) and Szwargot więzienny by Karol Estreicher (1903, this publication gathers vocabulary from Estreicher’s works published several decades earlier). The author evaluates the stability of the vocabulary and the development of the lexis – he compares the 19th-century material with notations appearing in the later work Żargon mowy przestępczej by Wiktor Ludwikowski and Henryk Walczak (published in 1922).

TRANSLINGUISME – THE WRITER BETWEEN TWO OR MORE LANGUAGES

Author(s): Laura-Mariana Lungu / Language(s): French Issue: 33/2023

Literary practice in one or more foreign languages has been experienced by an impressive number of authors over the centuries. Translingual writers are writers who have practiced literature, exclusively or not, in a second language or in several. Many French-speaking writers have the tendency to produce a reflection on languages and language, and often even to make language one the main subjects of their writing. The change of language and its consequences in the life of exiles also occupy a prominent place in autobiographical accounts, novels and essays.

ТИПОВИ ТУЂЕГ ГОВОРА У РОМАНУ "ПИЈАВИЦЕ" ДАВИДА АЛБАХАРИЈА

Author(s): Arsenije M. Sretković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 79/2022

This paper considers the models of transferring other people’s speech in David Albahari’s novel Leeches from the stylistic point of view. The aim of this paper is recording and illuminating the stylistic effects of different types of transmission of other people’s speech. By using analytical-descriptive methods in the novel, the following are recognized: real indirect speech, introduced free indirect speech, frag- mentary indirect speech, basic (grammaticalized) type of direct speech, semi-indirect speech, indirect expressive speech, and direct non-connector speech. In various contexts they depict the conversations of the novel’s characters.

Да попитаме Владко Мурдаров!

Author(s): Anisava Miltenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

The collection covers a broad range of topics reflecting Prof. Vladko Murdarov’s interests in linguistics and translation. It is divided into two main sections titled Friends and Colleagues. The first one features contributions by people involved in academia or the theatrical community, while the latter includes 38 thematically organised scientific articles and one review.

METHODS OF RESEARCH OF THE PERSUASIVE DISCOURSE APPLIED IN SOCIAL CRISIS SITUATIONS

Author(s): Viorica Lifari,Stella Grama / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 35/2023

The present paper explores the cognitive side of persuasive discourse and the role of power in it. The main purpose of the article is to put into discussion various models of Critical Discourse Analysis which were formulated by linguists from the domain and to present a general picture of methods that refer to discourse analysis. We focus on the inter-disciplinary aspect of the discourse analysis which covers different perspectives: linguistic, cognitive and socio-linguistic. Also, we emphasize the similarities and the differences between different branches of discourse analysis such as critical linguistics, the historical approach of discourse analysis and the cognitive one. By synthesising and comparing these methods we aim at developing a comprehensive and integrate model of discourse analysis, which will reflect the interaction between discourse, cognition and the social context.

PEUR ET COEXISTENCE SOCIALE DANS LA PEUR ET VINGT-QUATRE HEURES DE LA VIE D’UNE FEMME DE ZWEIG STEFAN

Author(s): Hayatou DAOUDA / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2022

In these two texts, Zweig Stefan lucidly describes the fear that eats away people who are at fault. This feeling completely destroys the lives of the heroines. Thus, weakened, Irene and Mrs. C. are exposed to all kinds of emotion: fear, hatred, anger and madness succeed one another in their daily lives. Therefore, their confined existence, with no way out, is like an oasis. Through these writings and in a psychocritique approach, we find that fear is a stronger emotion than death. The victims of this feeling, weakened, tortured and profoundly scarred, lose all control. They live a cloistered and quiet life because of fear, and find their freedom only through speech and music.

Review of the linguistic materials contained in volume 2, section 2, of the two-volume Makedoniya. Istoriya i kultura ot drevnostta do dnes [Macedonia. History and Culture from Ancient Times to the Present] (2023); Ezikoznanie [Linguistics], ed. Geor

Author(s): Angel G. Angelov / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Ритъм и ритмична организация на речта

Author(s): Petar Tsonev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2024

The study examines the problems of rhythm as a non-linguistic and linguistic phenomenon, as well as the similarities and differences between rhythmic organization in poetry and in speech, the number and nature of rhythmic units, the classification of languages according to their rhythmic organization, and the role of various prosodic features in the rhythmization of speech. Moreover, special attention is paid to the nature of rhythm in relation to its participation in the temporal organization of speech and to the specificity of the rhythmic systém of the Bulgarian language. For this purpose, the theoretical propositions on the physiological, perceptual and linguistic conditioning of speech rhythm in relation to speech production and speech perception are presented in detail. At the end of the article on the basis of experimental data from a number of studies that have examined the rhythmic organization of Bulgarian spoken prose (colloquial language), both literary and dialectal, a number of important conclusions are made for the Bulgarian language on the discussed issues.

ОБРАЗУВАНЕ НА БЪДЕЩЕ ВРЕМЕ С ЧАСТИЦА „И“ В ГОВОРИ ОТ СРЕДНОГОРИЕТО, СТРАНДЖА-САКАР И БЕСАРАБИЯ

Author(s): Vasil Kondov,Ivan G. Iliev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 16/2019

This article traces the use of the future particle i/j ‘shall, will’ in Bulgarian dialects spoken in the region of the Sredna Gora to Middle Northern Bulgaria, in South-Eastern Bulgaria, and in Bessarabia. The authors argue that this phenomenon is one of the characteristic features of the socalled Chijshij Bulgarian dialects in Bessarabia and that, in them, it is inherited from the dialects in the region of Sredna Gora which is the land of origin of the above-mentioned Bulgarian dialects in Bessarabia.

БЕЛЕЖКИ ЗА ФОРМИТЕ НА ДВЕ БЪДЕЩИ ВРЕМЕНА В БЪЛГАРСКИЯ ПРЕСЕЛНИЧЕСКИ ГОВОР В УЗУНКьОПРЮЙСКО

Author(s): Ivan G. Iliev,Petko Petkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 16/2019

This article discusses future tense particles in a Bulgarian dialect spoken in European Turkey (in the villages around the towns of Uzunköprü and Babaeski). The dialect is spoken by Muslim Bulgarians who left Bulgaria at the end of the 19th century or later. Most of them originate from Middle Northern Bulgaria but some of them have come to this place from Northern Greece and have mixed with the others. There is a variety of future tense particles in the dialect under consideration: ša, sa, za, ža ‘shall, will’. The authors show examples of the use of the above mentioned particles and draw conclusions about their origin in the dialect analyzed.

МАЛЦИНСТВЕНА СОЦИОЛИНГВИСТИКА. ЗА ЕДНА СОЦИОЛИНГВИСТИЧНА ТЕНДЕНЦИЯ СРЕД МАЛЦИНСТВАТА В БЪЛГАРИЯ

Author(s): Ivan G. Iliev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 16/2019

This article is dedicated to characteristics of Bulgarian dialectal speech used by minority groups in Bulgaria. In their speech, the author finds dialectal elements that are now rarely used by Bulgarian native speakers.

Вариативность компьютерных терминов как специфика формирования компьютерной терминосистемы

Author(s): Diyana Nikolova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2017

The article considers the variability of computer terms in Russian and Bulgarian. The variability of terminodits is considered in a broad sense. The corpus of the study was the ordinary user`s terms from the sphere information technology (hereinafter IT). Within the framework of this terminology, all types of variability are recorded: formal, lexico-semantic and functional-stylistic. In the framework of the study, the main reason for variability was identified, namely: the borrowed nature of the terminology system in Russian and Bulgarian, the intensification of intercultural communication in the professional sphere, the desire to economize language / speech resources.

Языковая агрессия в интернет-форумах онлайн-изданий

Author(s): Stefka Petkova-Kaleva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2017

The article looks into different representations of the strategy of confrontation and aggression in online forum commentaries, viewed by the author as belonging to the genre of naive political discourse. Attention is drawn to some of the most frequent forms of verbal characterisation, such as invectives, (quasi) euphemisms, verbal modifications of personal names, and language play based on grammatical semantics. The examples are excerpted from the forums of Russian online periodicals.

За някои политически метафори, използвани в съвременния български и руски политически дискурс

Author(s): Kristiyana Simeonova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

Thе study pays attention to some of the most frequently used metaphors in the modern Bulgarian and Russian political discource. Several interesting examples of single word terms and phrase terms, that received their denomination from general language words by metaphor, are examined in the article.

Аспекты языковой параметризации (на материале русского и болгарского языков)

Author(s): Stefka Petkova-Kaleva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2015

The paper dwells on the semantic category ‘size-dimension’. It focuses on the specifics of the absolute and relatively linguistic size and in particular, the linguistic interpretation of the size in the light of normative evaluation. The linguistic structures interpret the size of the objects from four different kinds of norms: the norm of kind (the average standard in the representation of the size feature), the situational norm, the norm of proportionality and the norm of expectation. Each one of these kinds has its own linguistic representation. The object of description and analysis in the present paper are the exhibit structures reflecting the size with respect to the situational norm, the norm of proportionality and the norm of expectation in Russian and Bulgarian languages.

Думата успех като прототипно ядро на концепта успех в българския, руския и английския езици

Author(s): Nelya Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

This article examines the concept of "success". Success is an indispensable part of our efforts, aspirations and projects. Although people interpret success individually and achieve it in the specific dimensions of their own activities and experiences, the formulation of the essence of this phenomenon reflects the social attitudes and cultural overlays and, moreover, presents success as an universal value to individuals and society. This article studies the concept of success by analysing the semantics and derivatives of the key token of success in three languages ‒ Bulgarian, Russian and English. It discusses the facts of language verbalisation of both the universal and specific dimensions of success.

К проблеме оформления тезауруса рядового пользователя в области информационных технологий

Author(s): Diyana Nikolova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2015

The article investigates the design thesaurus ordinary user in the field of computer and other technologies. Knowledge of this terminology, penetrating into various spheres of human life and of modern society, it becomes obvious need for each person. Need to draw up such a multilingual dictionary pursues research, teaching and methodological and purely pragmatic goals. The article proposes a thematic approach to the organization of the material of the future terminological dictionary.