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The article is a reconnaissance. The author of the paper aims at providing a comparison of mathematical and empirical results of research on the evolution of language. The content of the paper focuses on issues relating to the emergence of language. The author seeks to answer the question: What differentiates human and animal communication?
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The article is devoted to the phenomenon of swarming and its expression in modern technologies and art. The main focus of this work is a philosophical comprehension and interpretation of the performance “Mind-Controlled Cyborgroach” created by the Moscow art-group “18 Apples.” The author discusses the phenomenon of the uncanny as a manifestation of entomophobia and technophobia, and she explores the ontological questions of human and animal being and compares categories of “natural” and “human” technics. The article also focuses on the problem of the Other in the context of the basic tasks of bioethics.
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This paper analyzes the structure of the media discourse by the example of a release of the TV program (“Rules of Life”) on the Russian TV channel “Culture”. The communicative strategies of TV program participants, model of linguistic identity, and ways to express emotional attitudes to situations are discussed in detail. The analysis of the media space arrangement demonstrates that the structure of statements made by TV program participants labels them as bearing a certain type of speech culture.
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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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The author presents leading trends and main directions in the development of Kazakh and world literature, revealed in collective monographs, whose authors are literary critics and critics of the most authoritative scientific centers in the world. According to them, new horizons, new artistic themes, literary forms and styles appear in prose. The real literary process overcomes the situation of schism in national literatures, including the foreign underground. Inconceivability as a concept, emigration as a creative strategy in the context of multilingualism leads to the formation of transcontinental literature, to the literature of the “European home”. Against the backdrop of the obvious strengthening of the position of modern literature, there are opinions and concerns about the fact that the diversity of literary development leads to its disappearance, to the blurring of borders.
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Thе author discusses some topical issues in early language education. She presents a scientific research carried out at “St. Kliment Ohridski” University of Sofia relating to the Narrative Format model of second language acquisition. The aim of this research was to conduct a behavioural analysis of teachers implementing the model and seek meaningful relationships between different teacher modes of behaviour and teachers’ ability to exercise empathy.
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The 1930s national setting for foreign language teaching in Bulgaria differs significantly from the traditional milieu characteristic of most other European countries: it is marked by a lack of modern cultural institutions, there is no general nationally accepted methodology, authentic foreign language literature is in short supply and there are hardly any well-prepared teachers familiar with good teaching practices and methods and aware of the psycho-physiological needs of their pupils. The two textbooks outlined in this paper – that of Dimiter Gavriyski and the one of Blagoy Mavrov, are among the first attempts at correcting this situation and offer a methodological aid in organizing the basis of foreign language teaching as well as an opportunity of in-depth intensification of the process of learning.
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In the process of teaching Bulgarian language as a foreign, the knowledge of idioms as markers of the language picture, expressing ethno-specific color, is of great importance. Evaluation as well as linguo-cultural information encoded in phrasal units has a key role in defining the idiomatic meaning.
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The research paper focuses on the question of the typology of functional semantic fields in the contemporary Bulgarian language. In the analysis comments have been made on A. V. Bondarko and I. Kutsarov’s popular classification models of FSF in the Russian and Bulgarian languages, emphasizing on some problematic parts in the points of view of the two authors.The new classification of FSF presented in the exposition is based on several main criteria: 1) a sphere of functioning; 2) presence/ absence of a structural centre (nucleus); 3) structure of the field periphery; 4) a degree of the functional autonomy; 5) semantic scope. There are arguments in favour of the belief that FSF build microfields not only around the marked members of the nucleus – the morphological category, but also around the unmarked members (having both general and main meaning).
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The text uses the Functional Grammar of M. A. K. Halliday (Halliday, 1985; Halliday & Mathiessen, 2004) and the definition of Halliday as the topic being this that the speaker decides to make a starting point of his message. Using this definition in a corpus, comprising of only first paragraphs of contemporary Bulgarian fiction, we make conclusions about which sentence parts are most commonly used as a topic. A hierarchy of the most common sentence parts, which function as topic, is defined. The conclusions show that the referentiality and the syntactic features of the sentence elements are the reasons for an element to function as a topic.
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This article focuses on the link between foreign language learning and game design. There are many studies on the impact of computer games on education, but their importance in early language learning is not well explored. The article discusses some of the flow theory models in a computer environment. On the basis of analyses, the author offers his own gaming model for early foreign language learning using computer multimedia didactic games
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The article provides the definition of the training text, the description of its main functions, the analysis of linguodidactic antinomies: training and non-training texts, authentic and non-authentic texts, verbal and polycode texts. The typology of training texts, conditioned by the content of foreign language teaching, includes the texts for teaching the aspects of the language, four language skills and culture phenomena. The authentic texts include not only the original texts, but also adapted texts and the texts written by the teachers.
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The article defines the basic methods of teaching the Russian language with the help of songs. Different types of exercises for the realization of certain learning activities and the development of language skills are given.
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This article describes the functionality of some online resources that enhance abilities of teacher of Russian as foreign. Attention is paid to test resources, which allow to control students knowledge.
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The article substantiates the importance of studying cultural linguistics, describes the ways of understanding the realities associated with Russian cooking. Also the history of some of the dishes present in modern Russian cuisine is described. Some of them are known as traditional Russian dishes by mistake.
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Increased use of large language models (LLMs) that are part of artificial intelligence has been found in the practice of law application. ChatGPT 3.5 software can be a useful support for attorneys acting as an attorney, as it has a wide range of applications, first of all, it can create ready-made letters after entering a formula on the command line. The present study includes a qualitative analysis of the use of ChatGPT 3.5 software on the example of two process-relevant documents: a motion for appointment of an attorney ex officio and a settlement agreement reached in the course of litigation. The author set two research hypotheses: (1) the obligation to act diligently for the benefit of the principal is not a negative premise for the use of LLM in procedural communications, (2) at the current stage of development, LLMs do not allow the creation of content in procedural communications that would be completely consistent with the given legal state and would not require verification.
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The article argues that teaching Bulgarian as a second language, after another language has already been learned, should be framed within the context of second language instruction. This approach necessitates leveraging contemporary scientific advancements in language acquisition, particularly those from psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and neurolinguistics. These advancements provide insights into the specifics of linguistic knowledge, its representation in the mind, and how it can be acquired in relation to the brain’s neurocognitive systems.
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The article presents an escape classroom "Locked in the library", which is implemented with 2nd grade students whose mother tongue is different from Bulgarian. The goal is to provoke the students' desire to develop their linguistic and digital competences, by involving them in various activities that improve their level of mastery of the Bulgarian language, to increase their motivation for learning and to be able to develop and show their potential and creativity . In the realization of the set goals, approaches such as STEAM, "Learning through experience" and "Learning through play" are applied, through which the student learns actively: observing, exploring, experimenting, explaining, and not just memorizing and reproducing information. To optimize time and personalize didactic materials, in the process of creating the escape classroom: "Locked in the library" artificial intelligence - Chat GPT was used.
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Endorsing Gert Biesta’s concept of pedagogy as “educative participation”, we understand it as participation that transforms the views and human conduct of all who participate in it. Therefore, this essay is an attempt at reading the second volume of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books and Saint-Exupery’s Le Petit Prince as texts which can provide us with an illuminating insight into the ways of, first, critically observing and then, second, improving our perceptions of nature, swerving them toward cooperation with rather than a mere use of. Andrzej Nowak’s term “ontological imagination” turns out helpful in understanding the world as an intricate and ever-growing network of human and non-human connections forming oikos, space which not only provides living conditions but is itself alive. Hence, we propose a geo-logical pedagogy, that serves oikos, overcoming the limitations of pedagogy based on a libidinal desire for domination, as well as that rooted in an equally libidinal desire for possession.
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