‘One Day in Slovak, Another Day in Bulgarian’: Aspects of the Familial Upbringing of Children of Bulgarian-Mixed Origin

Author(s): Tanya Matanova / Language(s): English Issue: Special/2016

This paper addresses the specific situations faced by children of interethnic families relating to the ethnocultural, linguistic, and religious upbringing by their parents. The study focuses on persons born into Bulgarian-Russian, Bulgarian-Ukrainian, Bulgarian-Austrian, Bulgarian-Slovak, and Bulgarian-German families which reside in either Bulgaria or other European countries. An individual’s ethnocultural education is considered a part of the process of enculturation and socialization that occurs in the first few years of his or her life. In interethnic families, there are three cultural models that parents use to transmit their ethnic backgrounds to their descendants: the ‘one-sided arrangement’, ‘alternative arrangement’, and ‘creative adjustment’. The linguistic education includes the different means chosen by parents for transmitting their language competence to their offspring. The discussion of religious upbringing is based on data from people raised with two cultures and two festivity systems, and their family practices regarding religious holiday celebrations.

Научни форуми

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 26/2013

ПРЕДЛОЖНАЯ СИНОНИМИЯ В РУССКОМ ЛИТЕРАТУРНОМ ЯЗЫКЕ ПЕРВОЙ ПОЛОВИНЫ XIX ВЕКА

Author(s): Lyaysen Ravilevna Abdulkhakova,Kseniya Valeryevna Kotnikova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2013

The article presents the main types of synonymous prepositions in the Russian literary language of the first half of the 19th century. The author provides the examples of each type based on literary texts of the period under consideration and in accordance with the existing scientific classifications. The paper reveals such trends in the development of prepositional synonymy as the flexibility of the rules of using morphological synonyms and the stylistic reassessment of the components of synonymic rows.

РЕГИОНАЛЬНЫЕ ИЗВОДЫ КНИЖНОГО ЯЗЫКА И ВТОРОЕ ЮЖНОСЛАВЯНСКОЕ ВЛИЯНИЕ (ОБ ОРФОГРАФИИ ЗАХАРИИНСКОГО ПАРИМЕЙНИКА 1271 Г.)

Author(s): Anna Igorevna Kuzovenkova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2013

The article reveals certain language peculiarities of one of the unexplored manuscripts, Zakhariinskii Parimeinik of 1271. On the one hand, the manuscript reflects the Pskov-Novgorod dialect features: the mixing of affricates w and Ÿ as well as sibilant and hushing sounds, a particular type of the reflexivity of TъrT groups, the use of ;u along with ;l, etc. On the other hand, there are many spellings of South Slavic origin in the manuscript. All this makes it possible to state the appearance of obsolete orthography in Zakhariinskii Parimeinik and to specify information about the number and territorial belonging of the scribes, who worked on the text.

СЕМАНТИЧЕСКАЯ АДАПТАЦИЯ РУССКИХ ЗАИМСТВОВАНИЙ В ПЕРСИДСКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ ХIХ – ХХ ВВ.

Author(s): Gelinya Khayretdinovna Gilazetdinova,Rogayye Akbari / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2013

The article studies semantic development of Russicisms borrowed by the Persian language in the 19th–20th centuries. Based on the analysis of Russian and Persian lexicographic resources (including dictionaries of foreign words, explanatory and etymological dictionaries, and Internet data resources) and using the method of continuous sampling, around 300 lexical units have been revealed. Two structural and sematic types of Russian borrowings are described: 1) Russicisms the meaning of which undergoes no or insignificant changes when borrowed from the source language; 2) lexemes the semantic structure of which undergoes quantitative, qualitative or categorial changes in the Persian language.

ИНСТИТУТ СЕМЬИ В КОНЦЕПТОСФЕРЕ РУССКОГО И ПОЛЬСКОГО ЯЗЫКОВ

Author(s): Elena Ivanovna Kolosova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2014

The article contains a comparative analysis of paroemias with the conceptual meaning “family” in Russian and Polish. Special attention is paid to the transformation of the concept “family” in the Slavic sphere of concepts (lexemes “marriage”, “wife”, “husband”, etc.). The conceptological approach to linguistic phenomena and culture contributes to the solution of the problem under investigation. As a result of the research, the universal and specifically national content of the “family” concept in the Russian and Polish languages is determined.

Безлични структури със съществителното бъг и с производни от него глаголи в българската разговорна реч

Author(s): Anita Todoranova-Dushkova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

The provided text appears to discuss lexical units with the root bug that have found a place in the syntactic system of Bulgarian colloquial speech. The goal of the report is to present the various meanings and uses that these units have in the Bulgarian language. The purpose involves observing the context (different from the com puter field) in which these lexical units with the root „bug“ are used, and analyzing the meanings generated by this context.

Интеракция в условиях вузовской среды

Author(s): Milena Paliy / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2024

The article is devoted to the actual problem of interaction of subjects taking part in the process of university education. In this context, the issues that constitute the subject area of a variety of theories of interpersonal relations, identifying the specific features of interaction between teachers, students and their parents, are considered. It shows the multidimensionality of this phenomenon and offers some solutions that positively influence the process of optimisation of communications both in the professional direction and in the universal, emotional direction, which is the basis for successful interaction and professional realization of students.

Особености на скрипта като вид текст и неговият превод при субтитриране на видео съдържание

Author(s): Irena Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2024

The research aims to examine some features of the script as a type of text and as an object of translation when subtitling video content. The concepts of script, subtitling as a type of audiovisual translation, as well as the difficulties that accompany the process of translation of dialogic text intended to be placed in the form of subtitles integrated with video content, are examined.

Концепциите за достъпен/лесен език в контекста на устната реч

Author(s): Andreana Eftimova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

The article examines the theoretical understanding of the need to language tailoring that provide accessible communication. The problems on which the researchers are working are presented: the essence and peculiarities of the language varieties of the plain (PL) and easy (EL) language, their status in the context of the other language variants. The principles of adapting speech in OE and LE are derived and their application in writing guides prepared by media and institutions is discussed. A review of writing guides for general audiences in the media and in institutions shows that intuitively derived internal standards for accessible communication operate in practice. However, there is a lack of a consistent and unified description of strategies for making the language accessible to a wide audience. Therefore, the tailoring of PL and the preparation of descriptions and guidelines for the implementation of this language variety can, on the one hand, benefit from the results in the research of conversational and oral communication, and on the other hand, regulate the efforts to achieve accessible communication of the institutions and the media with citizens.

Общуването с Бога в пословиците (върху материал от полската паремиология)

Author(s): Dimitrina Hamze / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

The aim of the research is to provide motivation for the necessity of communication with God and to justify the generation of a specific type of Speech Acts (SAs), which involve a communicative triad: the producer and dual addressees – a real or virtual interlocutor and God, through a brief diachronic overview of some philosophical perspectives on the idea of God, based on material from Polish paremiology. The success of SAs is guaranteed by the presence of the Almighty, directly or indirectly invoked in SAs emanating from proverbs. This presence is presented in the study as part of the communicative roles of the Almighty: the Absolute Idea, the Absolute Ruler, the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Creator, and the Absolute Mystery. The subject’s inner imperative generates illocutionary impulses, demonstrating reverence, devotion, most often non-contradiction, and dedication to the Higher Power. The methods used include comparative, cognitive-analytical, semantic-pragmatic, and conceptual-prognostic ones.

Семантическая структура тематических высказы-ваний в качестве фати-ческой единицы для установления первона-чального речевого контак-та (на примерах из русских и болгарских художест¬венных текстов)

Author(s): Nadezhda Stoykova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2024

During the initial speech contact the speaker has the opportunity to freely choose various language means described in the speech etiquette. But the deviation from the linguistic norm is observed quite often. In a relaxed dialogue interaction, the initiator of communication can use various thematic statements as phatic units that successfully carry out the act of establishing initial speech contact. In fiction, such statements are characterised by a rather wide semantic diversification.

Рецензия на монография: Т. В. Терзиева. „Терминология автомобилестроения: стилистический, структур¬но-семантический и лекси-кографический аспекты“

Author(s): Gocho Gochev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

IN MEMORIAM Анна Николова (1942–2023)

Author(s): Nadezhda Stoykova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

IN MEMORIAM Христинка Дамянова (1956–2022)

Author(s): Hristina St. Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

ГРАФИТИ ОТ СКАЛНИЯ СКИТ „МАНАСТИРА“ В ШУМЕНСКАТА МАЛА СВЕТА ГОРА

Author(s): Nikolay Nikolov,Georgi Kanchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 24/2024

The presented epigraphic material emphasizes the importance of the "Monastery" rock skete. The abundance of graffiti drawings as part of complex compositions, superimposed on each other even on one wall, testifies to the continuity of monastic activity. The registered signs which resemble runes and the drawing of an unarmed horseman give reason to attribute the nascency of the monastic monastery to the period of the First Bulgarian Kingdom. The purposeful depiction of the main Christian symbolism (cross, deer, anchor, axe, ship, Jacob's ladder), the cryptographic records and the monograms, mostly associated with St. Virgin Mary, as well as the inscriptions, to a large extent, illustrate the formation of the "Monastery" rock skete in a spiritual center in the entire network of rock churches and monasteries in the Shumen’s Mala Sveta gora.

Rozwój funkcjonalny spójnika ali w językach słowiańskich

Author(s): Mikołaj Dunikowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2024

The aim of this paper is to form a hypothesis regarding the functional development of the conjunction ali in Slavic languages. The conjunction is derived from the Proto-Slavic compound *a li, which introduced a rhetorical question in Old Church Slavonic. It has appeared in several languages and has served a variety of functions, such as adversative, disjunctive, mirative, introducing conditionals. The hypothesis assumes the existence of two branches of its functional development, one of which is initiated by the use in rhetorical questions, which could have been later interpreted as adversative sentences. The paper analyses word uses in the oldest texts of selected Slavic languages: Serbo-Croatian, Old Polish and East Slavic languages. The methodology is based on the achievements of modern theoretical and typological linguistics, the functional-typological approach to coordination relations and the theory of semantic maps.

Международна конференция „Континуитет, единство, културно и езиково разнообразие в Югоизточна Европа“

Author(s): Milen Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 49/2024

Uneducated and less trustworthy. Social distance in subconscious language attitudes towards Lithuanian-Russian accent speakers

Author(s): Prieglius Žuklys-Rogoża / Language(s): English Issue: 21/2024

Sociological surveys have shown that social distance towards Lithuanian-Russians (the so-called “ethnic Russian minority” in Lithuania) is rather marginal or non-existent. This paper presents a pilot study at Vilnius schools (n=151), which used the verbal guise technique to investigate subconscious language attitudes towards Lithuanian (i) with Vilnius speech traits, (ii) with a Lithuanian-Russian accent, and (iii) with a Scandinavian accent – an accent presumed unfamiliar to the study participants. Half of the participants were also informed of the speaker’s profession to assess if it can reverse their attitudes. The main findings of the study show that speakers with a Lithuanian-Russian accent are perceived as less interesting, less educated, less trustworthy, and older. These results put into question the notion of absent social distance towards Lithuanian-Russians, highlighting the need for further research on this topic.

Синтаксис и семантика глагольного реципрока на -ш в терском диалекте кумыкского языка

Author(s): Anastasija I. Gruzdeva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 03 (54)/2024

This paper addresses syntax and semantics of the reciprocal marker -š in the Terek dialect of Kumyk, a Turkic language of the Kipchak group. The study is based on data collected by the author during the expedition to the village Predgornoje in the Republic of North Ossetia — Alania in August 2022, 2023. In the grammar [Gadžiahmedov et al. 2014] describing Standard Kumyk, which is based on Dagestan dialects, the suffix -š is regarded as a marker of the so called ‘‘mutual-collective voice’’. In this paper, I look into possible meanings of the suffix -š using several base verbs, and I propose a different classification in line with modern typological terminology conventions. In the idiom in question, unlike in many other Turkic languages, this affix is currently unproductive. During elicitation, only few lexicalized derivates turned out to be possible, some of them have lost their base verbs and are not used without the suffix. Most -šderivates (but not all of them) have reciprocal semantics, sociative interpretations are possible in a very limited number of derivates in Terek Kumyk. I also came across depatientive and assistive interpretations, as well as derivates whose semantics does not seem to be compositional at all. Syntactically, -š-derivates combine with a plural subject, which can be realized either via plural NP, combination of a nominative argument with a comitative argument, or NP coordination with help of da ‘and’. This study addresses the syntactic position of the comitative argument in such clauses. As my tests show, two configurations are possible: the comitative NP can be contained in either the nominative NP or the VP. However, the “comitative NP + nominative NP” word order only allows for the comitative argument to be included in the VP.