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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 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 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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The present article deals with the concepts of GOOD and BAD as reflected in Bulgarian lexical system from the point of the theory of cognitive metaphore, developed by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson. The research is based on the view that the concepts of GOOD and BAD undoubtedly belong to the natural kinds of human experience, but nevertheless they require definition by means of metaphors as long as they do not exist objectively in the physical world but are resulting from human comprehension. The attention is drawn more specifically on those notions of physical motion which the Bulgarians have used unconsciously in order to understand the more abstract cognitive domains of GOOD and BAD.
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The existing corpora of Contemporary Bulgarian Language are intended to analyze the morphological and syntactic features of the language’s oral form. The description of the phonetic level is the least studied. The created database of Bulgarian Speech with the program SARP represents an initiative to fill this lack.
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The paper binds the process of colloquialization of media discourse in Bulgaria with manipulation by Bulgarian popular mass media of its consumers. The examples illustrate how the expressive function of some colloquial lexical units – quantifiers – commit or facilitate manipulation with different meanings of quantity.
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The main barriers to effective oral communication at the specialized medical units are classified. The specific verbal and nonverbal factors for improvement of oral communication are studied, the communicative techniques and means are summarized. We give examples from the specialized medical practice of efficient and inefficient communicative acts between the medical staff and the patient according to the contemporary European requirements for patients’ rights.
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The main problems and the barriers which considerably impede communication with a suffering child and worried relatives in hospitals are analyzed in the article. Suggestions for optimization of oral communication are made with the purpose of a quick, easy and efficient diagnostics and treatment of an ill child, as well as soothing and encouragement of relatives by means of communication.
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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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Doubling of the subject in Bulgarian language is found in all its manifestations: prose, poetry, stage speech and so on. The subject of consideration here, in particular, is the manifestation of doubling (tripling) in conversational speech of the Bulgarians, who live in Vienna, where repetitions (and accordingly relegation) parts of speech are among the most typical features.
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HTML5, a new web standard, opens new possibilities for displaying transcribed spoken language: the user may jump directly from any turn in the transcript to the appropriate place in the audio. Preparing pages for this purpose is relatively time-consuming, but may be done with freely available computer programs.
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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 aim of this paper is to present a new type of speech communities. Their participants are Bulgarian emigrants. The object of the surveillance is a group of young people, living in the USA. By the recording, transcription and analyzing of their spontaneous and not edited speech we received some linguistic data, which verify our hypothesis, that new emigrant speech communities live in conditions of subordinated bilingualism. It depends on the moment speech situation.
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The object of this research is media speech, recorded from nnational and regional television broadcasts. The aim is to examine some morphonological alternations in the verbal paradigm. The study makes a comparison between morfonologichnite accent and phonemic alternations in oral communication and grammatical rule, outlining differences in both the nature of the dominant morfonologichni tools and their functionality and frequency.
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