Българският език като обект на законодателни инициативи в началото на XXI в.

Author(s): Vladislav Marinov,Krasimira Vasileva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2022

The present study is the first one that aims to present a comparative analysis of the bills for the use of the Bulgarian language introduced in the Parliament since 2004. The conclusion reached as a result of the comparative analysis is that the texts of the bills have quite a lot in common rather than having differences in terms of both the main ideological positions and the weak points that prevented the adoption of such a law over the years. In addition to this, the conclusions impose the idea that a qualitatively new approach is needed in the drafting of the normative act– the law on the Bulgarian language should regulate a unified state language policy to protect the language as the basis of national identity and thus to encourage the development of education, science and culture in the Republic of Bulgaria.

Учебни речници за обучението по английски език през Възраждането

Author(s): Milena Yordanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2022

The article presents an analytical review of the available bilingual dictionaries (Bulgarian-English and English-Bulgarian) that were used during the Bulgarian Revival for English language teaching. A quantitative analysis of the dictionaries is made, with special attention paid to the selection of the vocabulary included in them. The specific features of the appendices placed at the end of the dictionaries are discussed. The characteristics of the dictionaries are examined from a linguistic and philological perspective.

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.

Гравьорът в литературата

Author(s): Sava Slavchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2022

The article examines the life and work of Italo Calvino, a writer with a huge contribution to Italian literature. His life path, political and moral views are examined. The text analyses Calvino’s work and how his life experiences influenced him.

Няколко щриха от лингвистчната вселена на Роман Якобсон (1896 – 1982)

Author(s): Stefana Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2022

The article examines the breakdown of Roman Jakobson on the autonomy of linguistics and its relations with the other human sciences. Yakobson picks up and develops Sapir’s idea that the modern linguist cannot confine himself to his traditional field. He interprets autonomy and integration as two mutualy complementary concepts.

Варианти за интегриране на музикални елементи в обучението по английски език като чужд в началния етап

Author(s): Penka Kaneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Regardless of the scientific evidence about the positive influence of music on language development, the presence of music elements in the process of teaching English as a foreign language is still insufficient. Some methodological ideas are presented in the paper, after the thorough review and interpretation of literary sources. These ideas can be applied both to the exercises from the textbooks and to the additional learning content selected by the teachers according to the language level and needs of the students. The possibilities for integrating music elements into the process of teaching English as a foreign language are divided into two groups: 1) activities which integrate instrumental music and 2) activities which integrate vocal music and rhythmic elements. Presented methodological ideas do not exhaust all available ones but could become starting point for developing new solutions and to help pedagogical specialists to see the positive influence of the music on language development.

Дидактически упражнения за преподаване и усвояване на испански език за специфични цели в сферата на ихтиологията

Author(s): Mihal Pavlov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

The aim of this article is to present the contemporary perspectives of the methodology of language teaching through the prism of didactic exercises for teaching and learning ichthyological Spanish. It outlines the main criteria for the selection and classification of didactic tasks with regard to response options, mode of execution, achievement of objectives, duration, etc. An example exercise illustrating and describing the theoretical concepts described is presented and analysed in detail.

Турската кулинарна терминология в българския език. Исторически аспект

Author(s): Ilya Zlatanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Bulgarian language through Turkish mediation. The Ottoman Turkish language contains a significant layer of Arabic and Persian vocabulary, which hasalso entered the Bulgarian language. Some of the Arabic vocabulary was inherited from Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ, and from the Akkadian language of Babylon and Assyria, and Persian - from the language of the Zend Avesta. As a result, Bulgarian culinary terminology preserves an ancient heritage.

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.

Basic Requirements for Characteristics of the Korean Language e-Textbook

Author(s): Lyudmila Voronina,Sergey Letun,Evgenia Rozenfeld / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Rapid changes in the digital age making e-textbooks the key technical aid among electronic media are getting actively applied in education. A more specific image of the contemporary foreign language e-textbook is shaped by adding new characteristics to the list of the basic characteristics required. The article deals with determination of those characteristics of e-textbooks that will make their use more in demand for the study of languages, including Korean. The purpose of the article is to determine the main characteristics of a foreign language e-textbook as well as to analyze how they will reflect the specifics of the language in question and how exactly they will manifest themselves. The analytical study of e-textbook prototypes developed both practically and theoretically on the basis of criteria set for e-textbooks, the software being used and the research experience let the authors identify the mandatory minimum characteristics required for the foreign language e-textbook and compile the scheme for the distribution of the characteristics into groups. The results showed that the main requirement of a cross-cutting, primary nature for the entire set of e-textbooks under consideration is hyperconnectivity. The study allowed identifying linguodidactic and technological components of foreign language e-textbooks, as well as those of the Korean language e-textbook (a multimodal interactive dictionary) specifically, which are in a hyperconnected relationship with each other. Their introduction and implementation into specific software, a linguodidactic web constructor, will contribute to development of more sophisticated e-textbooks to be of high demand both among learners and teachers.

The Romanian Army in the Chronicles of the Bulgarian Military Periodicals – the Case of the “Military Journal”, 1888 – 1912

Author(s): Boyan Zhekov / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

In late 19th – the beginning of t he 2 0th century the development of the Romanian Army certainly occupied the attention of the Bulgarian military periodicals. A good proof of this is the articles published in the “Military Journal” – without doubt the most important issue amongst the Bulgarian military periodicals. Tracing the Military Journal’s articles with respect to the Romanian Army in the period 1888 – 1912 can serve as an indication of what military issues interested the Bulgarian military circles decades ago.

Speech Culture as a Component of Human Language Culture

Author(s): Gulnur Ahmadova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The article contains an analysis of the normative, communicative and ethical aspects of the culture of speech, which make up the modern concept of the phenomenon under consideration. According to the author’s definition, the culture of speech, along with the culture of reading, the culture of working with text, information culture, constitutes the structure of the individual’s language culture. Considering the problem of classifying the styles of the English language, the author considers it appropriate to derive the constructs ‘language of fiction’ and ‘colloquial speech’ from the list of styles of the English language, identifying them as functional varieties of the language. In addition, taking into account the realities of modern society, the author proposes to expand the range of functions of speech communication through the function of forming one’s own image, the educational function, the function of adaptation to the conditions of speech interaction in the virtual world, etc.

Англоезичният пътепис за България в зората на ХХ в.: създател на образи и медиатор на идентичности

Author(s): Maya Boycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

The paper is part of an empirical study of Anglophone travel books describing Bulgaria. Its subject are the images through which the topic of ‘Bulgaria’ is communicated to the British public at the beginning of 20th century. These images are found to be informed by the symbols of the dominant discourse iconography as well as by innovative approaches to the representational paradigm. The paper applies the historical discourse approach to the process of uncovering the link between the representations of Bulgaria in English travel writing and the models of identification deriving from the socio-political reality of the division between the colonial Great Powers and the marginal newly-liberated states. The constructivist focus on the continuous mutually constitutive interaction between social reality and communication is pivotal in the study. The travelogue is interpreted as a communicative act in the course of which the subject and the object position themselves and assume or attribute to each other identities matching their social roles. The images of „gentlemen“, „peasants“, „warriors“, unlock models of identification that either reaffirm the status quo in the British-Bulgarian relations or advocate a closer engagement of Britain with Bulgaria.

Как се прави показалец?

Author(s): Alexander Ivanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

A brief summary is made of prof. Yanakiev's views on the creation of indexes for different types of scientific publications, changes are noted in these views due to the development of electronics and computer-based text processing, and a comparison is provided with Prof. Yanakiev's practice in the book “Stylistics and language learning”.

Сектантското насилие в Пакистан – тероризъм, или дълбоки религиозни противоречия в обществото

Author(s): Miroslav Mirchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

The report examines issues related to sectarianism in Pakistan arising from the unequal position of the minority Shia groups in the society. The main reasons are examined, as well as the activities of local terrorist groups and organizations like the Movement of the Pakistani Taliban and the so-called Local Taliban to destabilize the security environment and create ethnic ten-sion. Some of the measures taken by the Pakistani military and state leadership to regulate problems and create religious harmony and social security are also analyzed.

Лингводидактологически симулации в часовете по чужд език

Author(s): Mihal Pavlov,Milena Yordanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2023

In this article, the object of interest is the linguodidactological simulations in the process of learning a foreign language. In the context of the leading modern trends in the field of research in private linguodidactology, an attempt is made to outline the figure of the foreign language teacher as a “methodical screenwriter” and the tasks he performs to optimize the mastery of communicative competence through the perspective of linguodidactology simulations. The methodology used is analysis of sources, observation of positive practices and modeling of techniques for transposition of a linguistic-communicative fragment of reality in the learning process of a foreign language. Based on an analysis of achievements in the field of theory and practice of interactive foreign language learning, guidelines are formulated for the development of various types of simulation activities for mastering the studied language, in which the learner acquires a leading role in the learning process. A model for a widely applicable linguistic didactic simulation in the conditions of active foreign language learning is proposed and the main activities that should be performed to achieve positive results from its application in the learning process are outlined.

Балканските войни – бойното кръщение на българското военно разузнаване

Author(s): Miroslav Mirchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3S/2023

Балканските войни: човешки съдби между героизма и трагизма

Author(s): Stoyan Nikolov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3S/2023

Наука и война – 1912 – 1913 г.

Author(s): Kalin Ranchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3S/2023

In 1912 – 1913 Bulgaria fought the Balkan Wars. These were wars of national unification fought in territories with Bulgarian population. Therefore, among all the other issues that the representatives of the Bulgarian authorities had to face, they also had to take care of the study and preservation of cultural and historical monuments. This was all the more necessary as these territories were free for the first time and came within the borders of the Bulgarian state. And this would mean that the individual monuments had to be registered, their scientific importance assessed, and measures taken for their preservation. This led to the idea of organizing several scientific expeditions to Thrace, Macedonia and Dobrudja, in which the most eminent Bulgarian scientists were involved. During the wars, Dr. Bogdan Filov was commissioned to lead a scientific mission to Eastern Thrace and Macedonia to uncover, describe and collect archaeological and ethnographic monuments.

9-а пехотна Плевенска дивизия по време на Втората балканска война по спомените на фелдфебел Иван Ковашки

Author(s): Docho Nikolov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3S/2023

The article examines the actions of the 9th Infantry Pleven Division in the Second Balkan (Inter-Allied) War from the memoirs of Ivan Kovashki, Company sergeant major of the 34th Infantry Troyan Regiment. These memories are a valuable source for the actions of the division as well as his 34th Regiment. The memoirs provide first-person information not only about the course of hostilities, but also about some fateful moments related to the soldiers’ mutinies in the division, saving the regiment’s flag, and relationships between officers and soldiers. A comparison is made between the facts transmitted through personal memories and the official (archival) documents of the division: relations, operational orders, reports, etc. The goal is to clarify in the most accurate and historically accurate way the reasons that led to the disbandment of the division, as well as to emphasize the heroism of its ranks who remained loyal to their oath to the King and the Fatherland.