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The article deals with peculiarities of the development of Ukrainian and Belarusian children’s literature in the postcolonial period. The research history of children’s literature within the field of comparative studies is analyzed. The evolution of investigation approaches in relation to the children’s literature phenomenon at the end of XX – beginning of XXI century is examined.
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The paper is about modern linguistic ideas which enhance Bulgarian Language Teaching. The emphasis is on the contribution of Prof. Stefana Dimitrova concerning her studies in Pragmatics, Corpus Linguistics, and Text-Linguistics. The implementations of these key statements in Core Curriculum, textbooks and methods of teaching have been described. Some productive issues about relation between Linguistics and Bulgarian Language Teaching are discussed.
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Върху приказките за Хитър Петър
The object of this paper are writings by analogy - creating stories about Hitar Petar (a hero of Bulgarian folk stories) in the 5th grade. The analogy as a global method of correspondences between implicit similarities gives ample opportunities for developing logical and associative thinking of the students. The methodical experiment was conducted in „Rayna Knyaginia“ Primary School – Plovdiv, during the academic year 2014 – 2015.
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The questions of taboo and linked with it tabooistic namings has not been object of independent research for the southwestern bulgarian dialects. That is why the aim of this research is to investigate in ethnolinguistic plan some names of people and animals in these dialects. The bulgarian and Slavonic, as well as to high extent, the german ethnolinguistic tradition is followed, in the understanding of the connection between language and people and the language as ethnological code.
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The paper focuses on the semantic stratum of Turkish words and their density level in language material from the end of the 19th century. Their functional characterization is examined in view of the semantic spheres where they are active. A language corpus of Turkish loan words distributed in 16 thematic groups is adduced and P. Hitov’s patterns of defining and substitution of such words with their Bulgarian equivalents are examined. Conclusions are drawn regarding their distribution and stylistic marking versus their state, in Modern Bulgarian.
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This study was carried out within the framework of the research project “Balkan languages as an emanation of the ethno-cultural community on the Balkans (verb typology)”. Its purpose is to elaborate a description of the tense system of the Romanian verb in the indicative mood. This description will serve as the basis for a contrastive study of the verbal systems of the languages of the Balkan Linguistic Union, which will be developed by a team of linguists in the next stages of the project.
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This paper applies contemporary interpretations of tenses and aspects in English and Serbian in order to define temporal and aspectual relations between English Past Perfect Tense and its Serbian verbal translation equivalents. Since finite verbal forms in English are characterized by the combination of temporal and aspectual distinctions, these features were analysed (quantitatively and qualitatively) on the Past Perfect Tense corpus excerpted from а modern British novel. Subsequently, their Serbian translation equivalents were identified and statistically processed in order to contribute the further interpretations of tense and aspectual relations within the verbal systems of these two languages.
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This paper presents theoretical aspects of researching traditional material culture (crop science lexicon) of Ruthenians in Vojvodina, Serbia. The corpus was gathered through field research method. Presenting methodology of a fieldwork researching and analizing crop science lexicon as a part of Ruthenian traditional material culture could contribut to development of future researching in this field.
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The paper discusses the application of the semantic parameter ‘abstract general sense’. This parameter can have various verbal materialization depending on the head of the phrase. Contrastive exemplifications from Russian and Bulgarian are applied. The methodology is particularly relevant for the active command of languages.
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The influence of world globalization processes in the field of computer technologies on different languages has been considered in the article. The methods of replenishing the languages terminology due to the borrowings from the English language and creating computer terms with the help of translation have been shown. The influence of the globalization process on the Ukrainian language has been analyzed. The assessment of the other languages influences especially Russian and English on the Ukrainian language has been given in the article.
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Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian dictionaries of linguistic terms (DLT) are considered in the article. General and specific elements in register, micro-, macro-, and megastructural characteristics of the most significant explanatory DLT of Eastern Slavic languages are singled out. The perspectives of further development of Eastern Slavic explanatory lexicography of linguistic terminology are defined. It is concluded that a much higher informational level of analysis of the metalanguage of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian linguistics can only be reached if a combined explanatory dictionary of Eastern Slavic linguistic terminology is created by mutual efforts of lexicographers and terminologists of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.
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The genetic link between the different groups of languages in the Indo-European linguistic family ever since the dawn of comparative linguistics generated the search for the Indo-European original homeland and for the migration itineraries of the tribes, which resulted in the situation whereby the Indo-European languages and peoples occupied its present huge territory. The paper notes briefly the four main hypotheses on the localisation of the Indo-European original homeland and their corresponding migration paths. In all those hypotheses the Balkan Peninsula is either the focus of the migrational processes, or an important element in them. Therefore, the available data on the Thracian linguistic space, which will be examined, should be taken into consideration in spite of their scarcity (predominantly onomastic evidence) in the ongoing attempts to find a solution to the issue.
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The linguistic phenomena we encounter in teaching Bulgarian as a foreign language are focused not only on the field of psycholinguistics, but also to the vast field of applied linguistics and linguistic pragmatics. Having on mind the genetic proximity between Slavic languages and the specific difficulties in studying them, we focus our attention on a not so typical linguistic interference, namely between very close – Slavic – languages, one of them is a mother, first language. In the proces of teaching of Bulgarian as a foreign language of Slavs even greater role has the comparative and confrontational analysis, because the aim is to highlight the differences between Bulgarian and other closely related languages that can be a prerequisite for any errors, distortions arising from language contacts observed by us in this specific psycholinguistic situation. The text reflects the problems of tranfer and interference between Czech and Bulgarian in the proces of their study. There are some defenitions of the proces of transfer and interference from psycholinguistical point of view and then language material with examples of the interference in the process of translation.
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Comparative analysis of novels Field Work in Ukrainian Sex by Oxana Zabuzhko and Runners by Olga Tokarchuk is within the scope of the reseacher’s interest in the article. The theme of a journey is in the centre of study; interpreted in the categories of existential search and revealed through the concepts of language, history, motherland, nation, family and home. The conclusion is related to the similarity of using of the image of a journey as a pattern of self-identification in contemporary Ukrainian and Polish literature.
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The article deals with a corpus-based case study of two somatic/gesture/movement idioms containing the constituent legs, namely Russian protânut’ nogi (to die) and English to stretch one’s legs (to walk around and loosen one’s leg muscles after sitting down or lying down for a time). Using the Russian National Corpus, the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and British National Corpora, the author has studied the idiom modifications, variations of their figurative meanings, as well as has raised the question of cultural specificity regarding the choice of their underlying metaphors. The author has arrived at a number of conclusions, most notably at the following: the more transparent and obvious the connection between the two and the original gesture is, the more often homonymous free wordgroups occur, being virtually identical for the two languages in spite of the differences between the original metaphors. One has to bear in mind, however, that despite the presence of a connection between a somatic/ gesture/movement idiom and its original gesture or movement, this connection sometimes may not seem obvious to a speaker. The data of text corpora have revealed that the idiom to stretch one’s legs is more common in British English rather than in its American counterpart; however, the homonymous free word-group is more frequent in the corpora regardless of the language variety.
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Отражение на буржоазната партийност в сръбската и българската литература от края на ХIХ до началото на ХХ век
This article defines the term “partocentrism” and offers an overview of the depictions of the political parties in Bulgarian and Serbian literature at the turn of the 20th century. As Bulgaria and Serbia regained their political independence in the 19th century, they transitioned from Ottoman absolutism to constitutional monarchy. This transition switched the Bulgarian and Serbian people’s focus from the ethnic group to the political party system and thus created new communal loyalties that divided the Bulgarian and Serbian societies. The new parties took a central place not only in political, but also in literary life. The Bulgarian and Serbian writers promptly recognized the importance of the emerging partocentrism and subjected the bourgeois political parties and partisanship to scrutinizing critique.
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In the article on the basis of the researches by Kolessa, Fylypovych and Krymskyj the main trends in the development of comparative literature in the 1920s are examined. Those scientists represent different directions and methods of comparative literature. The most important of them have contributed to the development of this literary discipline in the 20th century.
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Based on the comparative-typological analysis, the article considers the ideas of Russians and Balts about the person and the world imprinted in the semantics of phraseological units with the somatizm foot in the Russian, Latvian and Lithuanian languages. The results of the research show that these cultural ideas of the world and the person first cover different aspects of the person’s life (physical and emotional states, character, behavior, the relation to the world and so on) as well as the main categories of the world (space and its organization, time, movement, etc.); secondly, a considerable part of these representations is universal for Russians and Balts. The majority of these universal ideas about the person and the world are structured by a certain set of universal oppositions into which fit equivalent Russian and Baltic somatic phraseological units.
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