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The paper examines verbs, which are commonly used in the language of Internet or in our daily conversations. We differentiate 2 groups: “new” transitive verbs and “ex-reflexive” verbs. Each group is accompanied by formula to visualize the grammatical change and by typical word-forming or semantic model. We analyze different examples from internet sources.
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The article analyzes linguistic empathy viewed as one of the instruments that have a considerable manipulative potential. We refer to the realization of linguistic empathy in the sentence and to the possibility for its realization as means for constructing texts, as speech tactics, and in some discourses – as communicative strategy as well.
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The paper puts a few questions on existing of neutral nominations, the role of context and mechanisms of creation and occurrence of political correct nominations. It examines semantic classifications of euphemisms/ dysphemisms according to different semantic categories in media speech.
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The main topic of the article is the representation of the formal and functional aspects of the forms of address in formal spoken communication, especially in parlamentary debates. Conclusions base on data, collected from The Corpus of Bulgarian political and journalistic speech (political.webclark.org). The analysis of the empirical data shows that different pragmatic and sociolinguistic factors may dominate in formal communication and determine the form of address the speaker chooses.
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The article examines the hidden speech aggression as an aspect of communicative pattern in the statements of the political subjects. The presence of hidden aggression in communicative speech acts of the listed subjects has been established and it has been explained the reasons for its existence. The main mechanisms through which the hidden aggression speech takes place have been revealed. For this aim the communicative acts that contain speech aggression has been explored. The speech acts with a hidden aggression have been differentiated and analyzed and output the manners of their manifestation.The article examines the hidden speech aggression as an aspect of communicative pattern in the statements of the political subjects. The presence of hidden aggression in communicative speech acts of the listed subjects has been established and it has been explained the reasons for its existence. The main mechanisms through which the hidden aggression speech takes place have been revealed. For this aim the communicative acts that contain speech aggression has been explored. The speech acts with a hidden aggression have been differentiated and analyzed and output the manners of their manifestation.
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Newscasts are placed in the centre of broadcasting. They define the appearance and the character of the television. The following article analyzes the problems of oral communication in the newscasts in the Bulgarian national television and News 7 television. The article analyzes the news presenters’ clarity of pronunciation, articulateness, presence/absence of dialectisms, intonation, etc. The journalists’ performance in the public television and in the commercial television will be compared according to the degree of the professional realization of their verbal expression: tempo-rhythm, tone, logical and emotional pauses, etc.
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In modern Bulgarian, an increasing number of accent doublets are allowed in words of both domestic and foreign origin. In recent editions of the Official Spelling Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language, which has a normative character, such examples abound. In some of these words, this is attributed to intralinguistic development tendencies. In the majority of cases, however, accent doublets are allowed under the dictation of widespread illiteracy. This article studies the accent in the words ‘structure’ and ‘dean’ and all derivatives thereof, which, according to the latest Spelling Dictionary (2012) now have accent doublets.
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The research presented focuses on the peculiarities of the paralinguistic elements in speaking at foreign Bulgarian language studying students. Subject of the study are the nonverbal aspects of behavior of students in the process of communication. In-depth analyzed are the phonation (rate, timbre, voice pitch) and kinetic (posture, facial expression, gesture) features in the oral production of 150 foreign students from the Medical University of Varna. There have also been summarized researches by leading Bulgarian and foreign experts who have had a significant contribution in the field of communication and paralinguistics. The results presented in the study are useful in achieving a more effective communication among foreign Bulgarian language studying students.
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The subject of this study is one of the main types of tasks to the texts for reading comprehension, namely open-response questions to text. Placed in the context of the problems of oral communication, they are analyzed in terms of their character as an incentive for the oral production of foreigners studying Bulgarian language.
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The article discusses communication as a manifestation of the individual, but also as a screen that reflects the world. It searches the reasons for the meaning-culture “strokes” that make it difficult/ distort communication. Focus of observations are: issues of identity in global and local aspect, phylogenetic and ontogenetic frames of the individual, the role of archetypes as heuristic stimulus.
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Bulgarian has a set of numerals that according to normative grammars should be used with nouns denoting male persons. In recent informal writing there can be seen a tendency to use these also for male domestic pets. The article discusses the possible reasons for this development.
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The present paper aims at specifying the components of specialized oral communication competence, summarizing our observations of various specialized test systems and suggesting a similar instrument in the instruction of Bulgarian (as a foreign language) for medical purposes. The topicality of our aims, we consider, results from the fact that effective communication doctor-patient considerably influences the quality of medical aid and the treatment process on the path of achieving health.
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The research proves that the consonant opposition ’’voiced-voiceless’’ in the absolute word-final maintains in the Wallachian dialect in the outhermost Northwestern Region of Bulgaria. There is no interference from the Bulgarian language, where in the absolute word-final this opposition is neutralized. In this special feature the phonetics of the Wallachian dialect is closer to the Romance languages. The realization of the voiced consonant at the word-final in the Wallachian speech of the bilingual people is often met in the idiolects of all informators and is not influenced by extralingual factors.
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In the article are described and systemized observations on the colloquial use of proverbs and sayings in the process of informal communication among Bulgarians. Two main trends are illustrated – using of tested by time set phrases generalizing life experience (completely preserved or modified to certain extent) and the appearance of new set phrases of the type which indicate certain changes in attitude and values. The analysis reveals colloquial phenomena like ellipsis, vulgarization, prevailing negation etc.
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The object of research in the paper is irony as a stylistic figure and an element of the style of media dialogue as a stylistic instrument, being in correlation with the aesthetic level of the text and attaching a subjective assessment of a separate or significant part of the text.
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The postpreposition ellipse in Bulgarian language is related to the nature of language – to grow on the princip of economy. In most cases, it finds its explanation only when itestablishes a contextual semantic relation (previous or following) with other structures in which the elements of the eliding ”recovered”. The postpreposition ellipse most paradoxically occurred even in the most impossible and at least expected syntactic position. At first view this seems to be very useless role of prepositions – to combine mostly with the names of groups. On the basis of elizyappeared many iterations in the language expression, which could be considered as a consequence of the tendency to maintain equilibrium in the language.
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The paper discusses the results of the national representative survey, which aims to identify the language attitudes towards 12 spoken language nonstandard markers and their evaluation as right or wrong. The analysis shows that the respondent’s evaluations are all negative excluding –ме ending for verbs from I and II conjugations in their present tense forms, 1p. pl. The most negatives attitudes are towards the reduction of unstressed vowel е into и and the palatalisation of consonants in front of front vowels, followed by nonstandard forms such as таа, онаа, теа, онеа and also towards рек‘ътъ, глав‘ътъ. The depalatalisation of consonants in verbal present tense forms and in the definite article, male gender, sg., have been evaluated more negatively than the “e reflex” of the Old Bulgarian jat vowel and nonstandard –ме present endings. The respondents are more tolerant towards the nonstandard “я reflex” of the Old Bulgarian jat vowel and the stress shifting in the aorist and the aorist participles than towards the depalatalisation and the “e reflex”.
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The jargon of informatics developed very quickly in the Romanian language especially in the last two decades. Computer influenced the speech of young people particularly in lexical aspect. The nouns and verbs borrowed from English and used in conversations on the chat also entered the everyday speech of the youth. Some of them even engender whole lexical groups. There are categories of words which are of interest from the point of view of morphology, semantics, spelling and orthoepy. Anglicisms are lexemes which cause problems in linguistic integration and adaptation.
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The article is about a phonetic phenomenon in the speech of contemporary Bulgarians – appearance of new articulation of the sound [л], possible sources of its origin, scale of its distribution, proposal and prognosis for its future.
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