Функционално-семантичната граматика на Александър Владимирович Бондарко

Author(s): Ivan Kostadinov Kutsarov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

The paper presents some short biographical notes and traces the prehistory (referring to the works of O. Jespersen, I. I. Meshchaninov and other scholars), the emergence, and the development of the theory of functional grammar by the prominent Russian linguist A. V. Bondarko. The most significant achievements of this linguistic approach in Russia and Bulgaria are made reference to. Various topical issues, related to the application of the theory in comparative studies, are concerned.

Между Библията и старобългарската литература с подкрепата на информационните технологии

Author(s): Neli Minkova,Zdravka Georgieva,Georgi Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2017

This article presents a possible model for teaching 9th grade Literature material related to the Bible and the Old Bulgarian literature by applying the knowledge that the students have acquired during the Information Technology classes. The demonstration of the student presentations about famous Bulgarian monasteries favors the formation of teamwork skills, the creative usage of the Internet resources and the improvement of the knowledge connected with the subjects studied in 9th grade.

Анализът на разговора: от социалния ред до езика

Author(s): Donka Mangatcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2017

Conversation analysis is an interdisciplinary research programme assuming an innovative theoretical approach and unique methodology. The present article follows its origin in sociology in the 60’s and 70’s of the 20th century, its conceptual grounds and the factors of its formation and consequent development, its gradual and difficult confirmation and its broad application in the close humanities and even in natural sciences. This review outlines the points of contact between conversation analysis and its direct predecessor, ethnomethodology, situates conversation analysis in the field of discourse analysis and mentions its contribution to foreign language teaching.

Анализът на разговора – теория на практиката

Author(s): Donka Mangatcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Conversation analysis, or talk-in-interaction, takes into account the sociallayer and the internal organization of the interactive episode with a focus on the procedural basis of everyday life. The research tradition distinguishes some crucial aspects of conversation such as: action, structure and intersubjectivity. Their essence and characteristics are defined leaning on an original methodology, applied to samples of oral verbal communication in ordinary situations, and envisages a detailed study of transcriptions of the excerpted text.

Формиране на новобългарския книжовен език през Възраждането

Author(s): Tatyana Aleksandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The article discusses the relationship between some peculiarities of the New Bulgarian literary language and the process of formation of the Bulgarian nation during the Renaissance. Characteristics such as piety to native language, movement to build a common and comprehensible for all literary language with modern norms, use of variant forms; a lack of a narrowly dialectic basis mark the pattern of forming of national literary language corresponds to such historical features as the lack of political autonomy, as well as the principles of egalitarianism and democratization, and a network model of social organization and functioning of public and cultural institutions.

За диалектното единство и един от опитите за прекодификация на българския език

Author(s): Ana Kocheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The Bulgarian dialectаl language today, due to changes of an extra-linguistic nature, is found both inside and outside the state borders of the Republic of Bulgaria in the three historical geographic areas: Moesia, Thrace and Macedonia. Due to the impossibility for Bulgaria to achieve its national reunification in the twentieth century and due to the imposed emigration of the population in the past after various wars, the Bulgarian language has a record number of attempts for writing-regional codifications - six, one of them being the Vardar-Macedonian one.

Научное наследие Золотого века ислама

Author(s): I. E. Suleimenov,A. A. Moldazhanova,E. E. Kopishev,G.B. Niyazova,Z.M. Yegemberdiyeva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2019

The article considers the problems of scientific knowledge in conjunction with the formation of a person in the modern information space. Various philosophical schools and their concepts about the process of cognition, as well as the evolution of these views, are considered. A comparative analysis of modern Western European thought and the heritage of the philosophers of the “Golden Age of Islam” has been carried out. Based on the analysis, a conclusion is made about the need to set new tasks for such a discipline as social pedagogy.

Book review

Author(s): Dorota Brzozowska / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

УЛОГА МЕДИЈА И КОНСТРУИСАЊЕ НЕГАТИВНЕ СЛИКЕ СРБИЈЕ У НЕМАЧКОМ МАГАЗИНУ „ШПИГЕЛ“ ТОКОМ НАТО БОМБАРДОВАЊА

Author(s): Anđela T. Vujošević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 75/2021

In der Arbeit wird die Berichterstattung der deutschen Zeitschrift Spiegel während der NATO-Bombenangriffe auf die Bundesrepublik Jugoslawien im Jahr 1999 nach den Methoden der Diskursanalyse und der Theorien des kollektiven Gedächtnisses analysiert. Die Arbeit soll erklären, was unter dem Begriff kollektives Gedächtnis aus linguistischer Sicht zu verstehen ist, wofür Medientexte geeignet sind und inwieweit sie das kollektive Gedächtnis bestimmter Ereignisse aus der Vergan- genheit prägen, wie Wissen und negative Bilder vergangener Ereignisse durch die Medien konstruiert werden, sowie die Art und Weise, wie ein negatives Bild Serbiens in deutschen Zeitungsberichten des Nachrichtenmagazins DER SPIEGEL im Jahr 1999 konstruiert wurde. Die Hypothese der Arbeit lautet, dass das negative Bild Serbiens in der Berichterstattung des ausgewählten Magazins während des NATO-Bombenangriffs auf der Semantik des Lexems oder der sprachlichen Konstruktionen basiert, die im Diskurs auf Deutsch verwendet wurden.

22nd Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore

Author(s): Helmut Wilhelm Schaller / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Черният монах на Емилиян Станев и неговите готически събратя

Author(s): Ognyan Kovachev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2022

Emiliyan Stanev’s unfinished short novel The Black Monk still remains on the margins of his oeuvre, and also of research interest on the part of Bulgarian literary studies. On the other hand, the plot and the eponymous character fit it into a wide network of works by English, German, French, Russian and other authors, in the traditions of Gothic, Romanticism, Realism and their varieties, where the ‘Black Monk’ motif is a locus communis. I call the potential of such loci communes to form sets of works partially connected by separate, often contextually undetermined threads, polyvalent intertextuality. Comparing through it works by different authors, from different genres and nationalities, I come to the conclusion that their interaction can be described, in terms such as de- and reterritorialization (Deleuze and Guattari), as rhizomatic and gothic. This paper does not range over historical-philosophical, ethical, socio-political, etc. aspects of Stanev's work.

Етикетният език в говора на село Бобощица (Република Албания)

Author(s): Miranda Belo / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2014

The text presents material from the speaking community about the blessings and good wishes, the Bulgarians of Boboshtica village (Republic of Albania). The collected material shows a well shaped and very rich category with blessings and good wishes to reveal important features of typological Boboshtica Bulgarians. They are loving, generous and positive emotional stressed. Wishes are associated with good wishes, good health for families, long and happy life, success and more.

Сближаване и раздалечаване на балканските народи и техните езици

Author(s): Ilya Zlatanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2022

The article examines the interaction of the Balkan peoples in the composition of multinational empires. Widespread multilingualism and frequent switching from one language to another eventually led to the formation of the Balkan Linguistic Union. With the rise of national consciousness in the 19th century and the change of political configuration, the process of convergence of the Balkan languages was interrupted. Moreover, individual regional dialects of some languages, once united by a common name, took on a life of their own. But there is also a reverse process, languages artificially separated for political reasons are regaining their former integrity.

Od projektu polonistycznego do proekologicznego w klasie integracyjnej SP (opis projektu)

Author(s): Helena Balcerek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2022

The main purpose of Helena Barbara Balcerek’s article is to present an original project aimed at the amplification of both the language potential (communication competences) and the literary-cultural potential of sixth-grade primary-school students. The project’s method consists in problem-based learning which integrates literary-cultural content-oriented teaching and language education (including rhetoric) with educational and prosocial processes. Reflections yielded by an in-depth analysis and interpretation of texts used in the project as well as discussions concerning the problem of human values and needs lead, as it turned out during the project’s execution, to ecological issues and climate challenges facing the contemporary world. A large group of students have come up with practical ideas as to the use of available resources as means to resolve the climate crisis and to undertake pro-ecological actions.

Assessing the communication needs of parents of children with cancer - semantic, grammatical and psychological analyses

Author(s): Elisabeta Niță,Maria - Magdalena Jianu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The objective of the present study is to evaluate the communication needs of the parents of children with cancer from the perspective of the semantic values of the morphological units used and integrated into sentence structures or sentence segments (with response status to open questions) and from the perspective of the factual analysis of the percentages of closed questions. We believe that the results we have reached, processed with interdisciplinary tools of psycholinguistics, morphology, syntax and semantics of the Romanian language and psychological analysis, can provide data that can contribute to the identification of the best strategies for ensuring emotional well-being and increasing the quality of life of families where there is a child with cancer.

Нова политическа фразеология в българската публична реч

Author(s): Nadezhda Stalyanova,Elena Krejčová / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2024

This text explores the potential for updating the phraseological fund of the Bulgarian language in the Bulgarian public discourse and examines the influence of different types of updates on the specifics of the functioning of the given phraseological units in public speech. The most visible updates are those that clearly introduce new elements into the meaning of the original sustained phrase, but at the same time retain the obvious connection to the original language unit. Phraseological units, which are generally distinguished by semantic indivisibility, stability of their lexical composition, invariable structure, imagery, emotionality and expressiveness, are subject to dynamic changes occurring in Bulgarian language in recent years. We direct our interest to stable expressions, in the composition of which a new component appears as a manifestation of lexical dynamics, which replaces an already established one, or an additional element appears in the structure of a phraseology, i.e. our attention will be directed mainly to the so-called lexical updates of the phraseological fund. In the text, we trace the change (structural and semantic) in a number of phraseological units in the Bulgarian language, in which the entry of the lexical component kopeyka is observed. The excerpted material is from two corpora – CLASSLA-web.bg (Bulgarian web) and the corpus of parliamentary speech ParlaMint corpus: https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance. The examples extracted from the corpora are relevant for tracking the changes we are interested in in the phraseological fund of the modern Bulgarian language.

INSTAPOETRY: DIMENSIONS, REPRESENTATIVES, AND IMPACT

Author(s): Sofia-Lavinia Ică (Cercel) / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2025

The article explores Instapoetry, a genre emerging through social media, particularly Instagram, that has revolutionized modern poetry. Characterized by its concise, accessible form, it blends visual art with minimalistic verse, attracting a diverse, global audience. Prominent figures like Rupi Kaur, Lang Leav, and Atticus have led this movement, turning their personal reflections into widely shared expressions. Instapoetry's impact lies in its ability to democratize poetry, making it more inclusive while challenging traditional literary norms.

FOLK PLANT ETYMOLOGIES. SPECIFIC CASES. LEXICAL NOTES

Author(s): Andrei-Ionuț Popa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

The purpose of this article is to present, in the form of lexical notes, particular cases of popular etymologies in plants and to highlight the adaptation and effective use of plant names that proves to be appropriate, well circumstantiated, taking into account their subodoxastic knowledge in this semantic relationship.

THE LATIN-ROMANCE DIRECTION AND THE MODERNIZATION OF THE ROMANIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE IN THE 19TH CENTURY

Author(s): Alina-Georgiana Popescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

The Latin-Romance direction and the modernization of the Romanian literary language in the 19th century are two essential aspects in the development of modern Romanian, reflecting both external influences and the need for modernization and standardization of the national language. The Latin-Romance direction was a cultural and linguistic movement that promoted a return to the Latin origins of the Romanian language, in the context of the development of national consciousness and Romanian cultural identity. This movement was supported by the intellectual and political elites of the time, who viewed Latinity as a foundation of Romanian national culture and as a link to Western Europe. The modernization of the language also involved the adoption of neological borrowings, with French being the most influential language in this process, mainly due to the cultural and political prestige of France during this period. Due to its cultural proximity and shared Latinity, Italian was another important source of borrowings, particularly in the fields of arts and literature.

THE MODERNISATION OF ROMANIAN GASTRONOMIC CULTURE IN THE 19TH CENTURY. CAȘCAVAL AND PARMEZAN: TWO GASTRONOMIC TERMS OF ITALIAN ORIGIN

Author(s): Dana Claudia Ciultă / Language(s): Italian Issue: 40/2025

In the evolution of Romanian civilization, the topic of gastronomy is not of particular interest among intellectuals, but, as Eugen Simion noted, writers – such as Costache Negruzzi and Mihail Kogălniceanu – were among the ones to ”display some sensitivity to what is called the gourmet discourse.” In this context, it is worth mentioning that Costache Negruzzi’s library included ”The Physiology of Taste”, written by Brillat – Savarin, whom Honoré de Balzac considered one of the great prose writers. Although gastronomy was not a fundamental dimension of his work, Kogălniceanu’s sensitivity to gastronomy is evident in many of his writings – elements of culinary art were incorporated both into his own lifestyle and the lives of his characters – and throughout his correspondence. In doing so, Kogălniceanu not only shaped the historical physiognomy of his era but also highlighted the refinement and good taste of certain social classes in mid-19th century Moldova.