EXPLANATORY PARADIGMS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND REPORTING TO REALITY

Author(s): Vlad Ovidiu Cioacă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

This article seeks to outline the polemics on the relationship between language and dialect and between language and social inter-action, and to present, in an analytical, synthetic and comprehensive manner, some theoretical models that provide explanatory patterns regarding the way in which language, as the basis of culture, is influencing how we relate to objective reality. First we will make a conceptual distinction on the relationship between dialect and language, we will review the philosophical premises of the issues addressed, after which the emphasis will move on the analysis of the language from four distinct paradigmatic positions: evolutionary, relativist, interactionist and constructivist.

Русский язык современной России

Author(s): Lyudmila Verbitskaya / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2016

Interview with Prof. Lyudmila Verbitskaya, DSc., President of the Russian Academy of Education

On the Principle of Traductological Relativity: Re-Interpreting Schleiermacher

Author(s): Suren T. Zolyan / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2019

The translation is a multidimensional phenomenon. All the theories stress the diversity of its types and strategies. Aspects described as an unexplainable deviation within one theory can form the foundation for another. This may lead to the idea of replacing a theory of translation with its empiric version. However, a different approach is also possible. The outlines of the theory of translational and traductological relativity can be derived from the ideas firstly voiced by Schleiermacher in his lecture On the different methods of translation (1813) and Quineʼs theory of indeterminacy of translation.

Kъм антропонимите в Етрополския поменик от ХVII век (За имената на поклонниците от село Добревци, Ловешко)

Author(s): Iliana Chekova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 18/2019

In the article are discussed anthroponyms of pilgrims from Dobrevtsi village, Teteven district, entered in the Etropole beadroll in 1648. For comparison of an earlier period are given names of people from the same village in the Ottoman registers of tax revenue from 1515 and 1584, allowing you to track certain features of the system names, ethnic, confessional and social composition of the population etc. Anthroponyms from the village are compared with those of the pilgrims from Etropole mentioned in the Etropole beadroll.

Аспекти на изучаването на публично изказване в часовете по български език

Author(s): Despina Vasileva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2019

The article view the concept public speech and its usages during the Bulgarian language learning in the period VIII – XI grade. We argue that public speech is an argumentative text . The main topic of the text are characteristics of public statement as an argumentative text. We show how students can improve their cognitive and metacognitive skills, text-creating skills and presentation skills. In the second part we show model for working with public speech in class. One of the more important topic is how teacher can help students to improve their engagement in civil society`s process and how to show adequately and convincing their opinion.

Книги 2019

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 39/2019

Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year.

Научни форуми

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 39/2019

Data about scientific events in the field of the humanities in Bulgaria in 2019

Градове, маскаради, идентичности (По примери от Унгария)

Author(s): Veneta Yankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The text analyzes specific examples from the festive life of the Hungarian cities of Mohács and Debrecen and in particular different manifestations of the contemporary masquerade game. The author pays attention to the construction of urban identity (part A) and searches for basic characteristics of the urban cultural space as a place of national memory (part B). The field research method is applied for the purposes of the present study. In conclusion it is noted that it is especially important for the participants to identify with a particular masquerade community that builds additional social networks outside of the carnival chronotope. The consistency with the culture and traditions of the city is also significant as far as these are manifestations of urban identity. The national identity finds expression in symbols and signs of the national manifested under conditions of deterritorialization. Through the self-perception of the people in the city (as people tied to it and belonging to it) and through their identification with it, the urban social space acquires its anthropological dimensions contributing to its unique spirit and particularity (genius loci).

Българистиката в Украйна: Центърът по българистика в Мелитопол

Author(s): Krasimira Koleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

Melitopol is a university town, a scientific, educational and methodical center for Bulgarian studies in the North Azov Sea region, where the Tavrian Bulgarians live compactly. The Bogdan Khmelnitski university Center for Bulgarian Studies was created 12 years ago after the establishment of the Sector in Bulgarian language, literature and culture. The educational, scientific and cultural activities of the Center for Bulgarian studies are closely related to the unique multiethnic diversity of the city, in which the Bulgarian community is third in number. The educational policy in Ukraine is dynamic and the Bulgarian experience is important.

Езиковата агресия в политическата и в ученическата реч

Author(s): Vladislav Milanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2020

In recent years, more and more often in the scientific literature and in the mass media is written and talked about language aggression and its manifestations in various formats and different communities. The actuality of the topic is determined by the fact that the phenomenon is spreading more and more and is pervading various social spheres. Not only linguists show interest in language aggression but also wide circle of sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and journalists among others. In the article are examined some of the main ways language aggression is expressed in the political speech and are presented some of the basic lexical and topical groups. The data on school students’ speech is extracted from a survey on language aggression conducted in several Bulgarian schools. A brief review of key concepts related to theoretical linguistic and psychological definitions of the term language aggression is also included.

The 23rd Language: Official EU Status for Irish as Portrayed in the Republic of Ireland's English-Language Press

Author(s): Antony Hoyte-West / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Irish became the 23rd official language of the European Union ( EU) i n 2 007. Due to a lack of qualified translators and interpreters, it is currently subject to a derogation which restricts its use in the EU institutions, a situation which aims to be remedied by 2022. Yet the Irish language represents a unique case even within the Republic of Ireland itself. Under British rule, centuries of repression confined its usage to he rural fringes of society, a state of a ffairs that an independent Ireland has attempted to improve with limited success. This article analyses how recognition of official EU status for Irish has been depicted in the Republic of Ireland’s English-language print media. By performing a qualitative content analysis of the online archives of the country’s three major English-language newspapers, the aim is to illustrate how official EU status for Irish has been portrayed, paying specific attention to political, cultural and economic factors.

Audio Description Landscape in Russia and Greece

Author(s): Elena Aleksandrova,Christos STAVROU / Language(s): English Issue: 25 (1)/2020

The article provides an overview of audio description landscape in Russia and Greece. It dwells upon the legal issues of providing audio description, comparing national legislation on media accessibility and Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons, and their impact on the development of media accessibility services in these countries. Special attention is focused on describers’ training both as degree training and further education courses. It also highlights insufficient financial support of accessibility services as one of the reasons for the slow development of Audio Description in Russia and Greece. The article analyzes the new opportunities for providing media accessibility, such as mobile applications and voluntary projects. It also presents an example of a service which can be viewed as a best practice to be shared and spread across other countries – an application Искусство.Вслух (Art.Vocally) with audio descriptions of theatre plays voiced by prominent actors and actresses, that was funded by one of the biggest banks of Russia. The article concludes by listing the possible solutions which might spur the development of Russian and Greek audio description

Stereotypes about Romanians in education, professional orientation and in today's society

Author(s): Elena Sestac / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2018

Stereotypes and prejudices influence our daily lives, and in certain circumstances we operate withthem, despite the fact that we think we are free of prejudices. Not infrequently, they can becomebarriers in the communication, knowledge and acceptance of those around us; from this point ofview, we must have the readiness to deal with our own prejudices, so that we do not reachsituations of discrimination, marginalization, rejection or exclusion of some people on subjectivegrounds, influenced by stereotypes and misrepresentations about others (we often observe that ourattitude and behavior towards a stranger is influenced by the way that person looks or is dressed).This study is based on stereotypes. It aims to identify attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate orchallenge gender stereotypes in education. We will see what is stereotype, prejudice,discrimination, we will go a little bit on gender, cultural and language stereotypes, and finally wewill see concrete examples within a school unit. This theme has become a problem of society.Stereotypes give rise to prejudices, and further discrimination. And during this research I noticedthat since we were born, these things have been instilled in us.

The influence of the Russian psychological pedagogy (by L.S. Lev Vygotsky) upon the model of education curricular design in the American cultural space

Author(s): Aura Hapenciuc / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2019

The paper demonstrates the way in which the Russian psychologist L.S.Vygotsky, who anticipates the paradigm of the curriculum, is perceived in the American cultural space. A representative of the sociocultural constructivism in education, L.S.Vygotsky is concerned with the problem of approaching the epistemic specificity of pedagogy as a specialized science in the study of education. The process through which pedagogy turns scientific can be confirmed according to three criteria: the research object, the normativity and the research methodology. The specific research object of L.S.Vygotsky’s psychological pedagogy is represented by the quality learning that pushes the development ahead, in the area of the proximal development, possible within a socio-cultural mediated training activity through the pedagogical scaffold created between educator and educated. The specific normativity asserted in the L.S.Vygotsky’s psychological pedagogy is based upon two complementary principles: the creation of the scaffold and the orientation of education at the area level of the proximal development. The research methodology refers to: the method of the qualitative structural analysis; the genetic method; the comparative method and the instrumental method. L.S.Vygotsky’s theory of socio-cultural constructivism has generated a revolution in pedagogy, exerting a strong influence in the US, in the field of the curriculum reconstruction, initiated by the psycho-pedagogue Jerome S. Bruner. The constructivist pedagogical model developed by L.S.Vygotsky who influenced the psychological theory of learning proposed by J.S.Bruner draws attention upon the need to capitalize on three ways of organizing the training – by action (with objects), iconic (by images), symbolic/verbal (by notions formed and developed). Despite the strongly ideologized era in which he created, the Russian educator managed to anticipate an important line of the postmodern (contemporary) pedagogy.

Периодика 2019–2020

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 40/2020

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology and art studies

Талант, творческо писане, светостроене и видеоигри

Author(s): Vladimir Poleganov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 7/2020

The article’s goal is to imagine a productive form of teaching creative writing as part of a Master's program in fields only remotely connected to literature and literary studies, such as digital media and videogames research. The text begins with a discussion on talent as the ability to perceive and submit to adequate and working models of writing. The topic is then further developed by analyzing talent within the framework of specific creative tools such as close reading and worldbuilding. Finally, the idea of creative writing as a model oriented and model guided activity is connected to the nature of the computer game as a space inhabited by a variety of new discourses, which the player - like a careful and attentive reader – has to learn to read and work with, thus making them part of her personal experience.

Необходима корекция в българската индикативна темпорална парадигма: перфект се образува и посредством имперфектни причастия

Author(s): Krasimir Kabakchiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

According to most Bulgarian grammars and the majority of researchers studying the Bulgarian perfect, its indicative forms are built from aorist participles and not from imperfect ones. This is an inadequate thesis that must be corrected. Analyzed in the paper are many examples with perfect verb forms built from imperfect participles. The relevant specificities in the semantics of the perfect, the aorist and the imperfect are investigated, and a firm conclusion is made that the Bulgarian perfect must be regarded as formed from both aorist and imperfect participles.

Забраненият смях

Author(s): Bogdan Dichev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

The text presents the ideas about the uselessness of the political correctness as a social act and analyses the comic mechanisms of several types of politically incorrect jokes. The author argues that laughter in this short contemporary folk form could quite often be happy, constructive and good-willed as far as the minority joke characters are concerned as representatives of differing and presumably oppressed communities. Several examples certifying for the semantic reflections of self-irony, overcoming of pain, re-ordering of the well-known world and mutation of the already known, turning the otherwise insulting meanings and plots into sincere and lively laughter. Finally, the author deals with the dilemma if the politically incorrect jokes should give way to silencing.

Od redakcji

Author(s): Weronika Kostecka,Maciej Skowera / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

Od redakcji

Author(s): Weronika Kostecka,Maciej Skowera / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020