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Towards Conceptual Frames

Author(s): Svetla Koeva,Tsvetana Dimitrova,Valentina Stefanova,Dimitar Hristov / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2019

The paper reports on the process of automatic mapping of the PDEV verb patterns to the WordNet sentence frames and subsequent manual validation of the verb patterns that were automatically assigned to the WordNet verb synsets. The validation resulted in the approval of 4,084 patterns, manual assignment of 1,568 new patterns and removal of 2,815 inappropriate patterns. The paper introduces the notion of Conceptual frame: a FrameNet Semantic frame the core Frame elements of which are specified for a set of semantic types. It is shown that the semantic types assigned to WordNet noun synsets define the sets of WordNet literals (lexical units) appropriate to express the core Frame elements.

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Лексикална интерференция в българската писмена реч на носители на руски език

Author(s): Aglaya Mavrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2019

The focus of the article is the interference effect of the Russian language on the Bulgarian Language among Russian students. The manifestations of interlanguage and intralanguage interference at the lexical level are considered. The empirical material is extracted from wtitten works of native speakers of Russian speaking students who speak Bulgarian at B1.2. level. An attempt is made to systematize “deformaties” and to clarify the causes of their occurrence.

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Translanguaging as a Norm in Multilingual Education: An Example from Poland

Author(s): Piotr Romanowski / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2019

This paper discusses the functioning of translanguaging in the context of international schools in Poland. In the introductory part various definitions of the concept undertaken by linguists since its coining in 1994 have been presented. An exemplary lesson is explored in the final part of the paper where the huge potential of translanguaging for language education and content learning in multilingual contexts is revealed.

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Българският общ народен студентски съюз и полицията (1930 – 1934 г.)

Author(s): Boris Boev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

The article aims to reveal in most general terms the police actions against one of the major Bulgarian students’ organizations during the 30s of the 20th century. Documents from the archives of the Ministry of Interior and of Sofia District Court and studies on the police and on the justice system of the period have been used. Some of the main methods of collecting information and neutralizing the activity of the Bulgarian General National Union of Students (BGNUS) used by the state and its repressive bodies are revealed. Examples of the systematic violation of university autonomy by the police are provided but also examples of the popularity, which BGNUS acquires among students despite the prosecution and the semi-legal status of the organization. In view of the revealed data, it becomes questionable whether the government of Andrey Lyapchev and of the People’s Block during whose period of office BGNUS was constituted and developed its activities, has been of democratic nature (as supposed today by a large number of modern historians).

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A Brief View over American Most Prominent Abolitionist Newspapers and Writings during the Mid XIX Century (1820-1850’s)

Author(s): Borislav Momchilov / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The main purpose of this article is to show the different aspects of abolitionist literature in United States during the mid-nineteen century. The wide historiographical view of this subject brings to the reader chance to receive accurate knowledge over this object. Over the last few decades the rhetoric over the abolitionism debate is circulating in many aspects, in a slightly range of historical researchers. Important target of this lemma is to show the main and impacting literature and newspaper writings in USA during relevant period.

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Спортът като фактор за превенция на агресията и насилието в училище

Author(s): Tatiana Iancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

The article examines the trend of an increase in violence among young people. The text focuses on the need for implementing complex scientific approach towards violations of social norms as well as towards the problem of security in school. The factors determining the behavior of different groups of young people and the mechanisms underlying this behavior are being analyzed.

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Посланици на здравето

Author(s): Valeria Dimova,Tzetzka Valkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

Students of 1st High School, provoked by the unfavorable trend of increasing obesity in children, conducted its own study on the prevalence of the problem in their school. With overweight appeared about 23% of the children. Therefore the initiators of the idea developed an appropriate set of actions to protect and restore health. The results show that for five months the monitored students decreased the consumption of white bread, fried foods and soft drinks. The number of those who consume fruits, vegetables, dairy products and fish has increased. The consumption of salt was reduced. There was an increase in consuming water also.

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Спорт срещу агресията и насилието в училище

Author(s): Rossitsa Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

The article shares experience for activities in working with juvenile delinquents. The author, as a sports expert in “Novi Iskar” District Administration argues the benefits of sport as prevention against diseases, aggression and addiction. Indicated are some best practices in support of the idea.

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Една незабравима лятна вакация

Author(s): Dimitar Dilchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

From 2004 until today, the metropolitan district “Studentski” annually organizes free children’s camp in the arts and sports. The program of the camp aims to reveal the potential of every child, to develop his motor skills in a friendly and safe environment, to create new friendships and develop and enrich the emotional, intellectual and social skills. Mandatory requirements for participants are zero tolerance of all forms of violence and aggression, and healthy nutrition.

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Защо медиация?

Author(s): Biserka Mihaleva,Tatyana Dronzina / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

The article focuses on actual and very important problem – the aggressive behavior of children and students. The text examines the advantages of mediation compared to other modern ways for solving such problems.

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Echoes of the Infernal Machine: 1940s French and English Literature of Resistance and Collaboration as a Revolution in the Mythic Imagination

Author(s): Tadd Graham Fernée / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This article comparatively examines French and English literature based on two novels published in 1947, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano and Jean-Louis Curtis’ The Forests of Night. Both novels employ the mythic device to construct narratives on the twilight of the British Empire and the German occupied French Vichy regime, respectively, depicting experiences of resistance and collaboration on the eve of and during the Second World War. Both invent a system of symbolic imagery modelled on the Surrealist template in Jean Cocteau’s The Infernal Machine, that turns the classical mythic device still prevalent in the early 20th century (i.e. in Joyce or Eliot) upside down. The revolution in Mythic Imagination follows the Structuralist Revolution initiated by Durkheim, Saussure and Bachelard, evacuating fixed ontological architecture to portray relational interdependency without essence. These novels pursue overlapping ethical investigations, on “non-interventionism” in Lowry and “fraternity” in Curtis. The novels raise questions about the relation between colonialism and fascism and the impact of non-Western mythic universes (i.e. Hinduism) upon the Mythic Imagination. They have implications for our understanding of gender relations, as well as the value of political activism and progress.

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Milton’s Two-Handed Engine as a Conceptual Metaphor

Author(s): Robert Tindol / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

One of the longstanding mysteries of English poetry is the identification of the “two-handed engine” from John Milton’s 1638 poem “Lycidas,” with which Saint Peter threatens to “strike once, and strike no more” the clergy who have been remiss in their duties. A new way of looking at the image is to read the entire passage with George Lakoff and Mark Turner’s theory of conceptual metaphors in mind. The strength of this approach is to show that identification of the two-handed engine should be considered within the context of the entire poem. As many commentators have argued, Lycidas’s posthumous fate as the “genius of the shore” does not rest solely in the actions of Saint Peter, but instead involves a reconciliation that amalgamates elements of both Christianity and the classical world as well as nature. The conceptual metaphor thus provides a single combinatory image.

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The Ageing Poet and Death Anxiety: Art as Existential Therapy in John Pepper Clark’s Of Sleep And Old Age

Author(s): Issa Omotosho Garuba / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Death anxiety refers to the human experience of death awareness and the accompanying inescapable disquiet it provokes. It is a phenomenon in human existence which has attracted substantial studies from existential and psychological perspectives. Noting that every individual experiences this anxiety at some point in life, largely as a result of the awareness of the inevitability of death, the manner and extent to which it is experienced vary from individuals. Meanwhile, existential reflections have described ‘death acceptance’ as the healthy route to lessening this angst. It therefore presupposes that acceptance of death (i.e. knowing that one is a being-towards-death and therefore embracing and acknowledging it) is existentially therapeutic. On this note, in studying J. P. Clark’s Of Sleep and Old Age, artistic creativity is being constructed in the study as an existential therapy against death anxiety for the poetic persona. It is premised, on the one hand, on the poet’s eloquent vision of the boredom of existence and the horror of death which characterize the atmosphere of the text. On the other, the poet’s age has been considered as a factor-agent which has bestowed on him the capacity to be conscious of an imminent death, thereby accepting it via keen reflections in his art. The study adopts two theoretical models in existential studies: (1) Monika Ardelt’s ‘Wisdom’, ‘Religiosity’ and ‘Purpose in Life’ and (2) John Sommers-Flanagan and Rita Sommers-Flanagan’s model of ‘Existential Therapy’ to assess the sway and/or centrality of death anxiety to understanding the text.

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Metadiscourse, Writer Identity and Reader Construction among Novice Arabic-Speaking ESL Writers

Author(s): Christina A. DeCoursey / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This study used qualitative analyses to explore novice ESL writers’ concepts of writers, readers and texts. Metadiscourse studies tabulate frequencies of discourse markers in order to characterise the different ways novices and experts, native-speakers and non-native speakers, construct themselves as writers, engage with their readers, and guide readers through their text. But the picture created by these descriptive statistics lacks many content areas voiced by student writers, including their reliance on visual content, and their emotions. Student writers’ experiences in a world saturated by visual media and marketing views are also factors shaping how they construct their identities as writers, the identities of their projected readers, and how they understand what they are doing when writing text. This study used content and transitivity analyses to assess how Arabic native-speaker novices understand themselves as writers, how they project their readers’ identities, and how they try to engage them. Results show that visuals are indistinct from text, and verbs of seeing are used for reader understanding, in novice writers’ sense of their texts, and how they understand engaging the reader. These novices have a demographically granular assessment of audiences, but aim to please readers with expected content rather than challenge them with academic content, and they downplay important elements of teacher talk, syllabus and second-language (L2) composition instruction, particularly data, research, structure and language.

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Difficulties in Identifying and Translating Linguistic Metaphors: A Survey and Experiment among Translation Students

Author(s): Charlene Meyers / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

A survey of twelve translation students in 2017 revealed that they tend to find translating figurative and metaphorical language difficult. In addition, an experiment also conducted in 2017 showed similar results. During the first phase of this experiment, two trained researchers coded metaphorical items in a text from the New Scientist following the Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (MIPVU). Based on Cohen’s kappa, the researchers reached an initial coding agreement of 0.692 (strong agreement) and a final agreement score of 0.958 (almost perfect agreement) after discussion. The second phase of the experiment involved the coding of the metaphorical items previously identified by the researchers in the same text by 47 students who received a two-hour introduction to conceptual metaphor theory and a simplified method to code metaphorical items. However, the results of the students’ coding showed that they had failed to identify metaphors in 49.96% of cases. Nevertheless, a chi-squared test (p < 2.2-16) revealed that the students’ coding was not due to chance alone and therefore not arbitrary.

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Фолклорeн събор, фестивал, конкурс в съвременността. Значение и място на музиката в тях

Author(s): Radka Bratanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

From the beginning of the 21st century and especially in its second decade, a lot of folklore festivals, sabors, singing and music making competitions, fairs, exhibitions and feasts have been created and organized. In almost every town or village (predominantly these are towns) the events take place once a year – a fact which suggests that they are in a way substitutes of the local fairs from the past. In all these cases there is folk music – either processed or unprocessed. Its role and significance determine to a great extent the type, the format and the level of the particular event.The article reveals different phenomena, certifying for the influence of the music performed on the festival where it is performed – played by professionals or by amateurs, having a main or an accompanying role, used or not with different functions and with different cultural aims.

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Водици в с. Добърско – обредност и музика

Author(s): Veselka Toncheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The article presents Voditsi rite in the village of Dobarsko (Razlog Municipality, Blagoevgrad Region) and the ritual song repertoire, characterized by its antique musical thinking, melody and rhythmic specifics. The scholarly focus is centered on the processes of development of the traditional rites in the local culture. The diachronic point of view to the rite reveals the dynamics in the course of time as far as from the second half of the 1950s to the middle of the 1980s Voditsi rite performed in Dobarsko by young virgins has stopped to exist. After that the rite is reconstructed, but mainly as a performance on the scene. Today the rite is an important element of the cultural heritage of the village and functions as a sign of local identity.

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Трансграничен изследователски проект „По пътя на българските градинари“

Author(s): Yordan Tyutyunkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

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Централно- и източноевропейската онлайн библиотека (CEEOL) като възможност за разпространение и за достъп до научни знания в областта на социалните и хуманитарните науки от и за Централна и Източна Европа

Author(s): Detelin Luchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

During the last twenty years, Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) became a leading database and repository offering a highly specialized and comprehensive collection of full text indexed documents in the fields of Humanities and Social Science publications from and about Central and Eastern Europe. Journal articles, eBooks and Grey Literature items are included in 50+ languages, allowing access to the primary source in one repository and fostering the language diversity in academic research and publishing. The dissemination process of the content in CEEOL includes the following discovery systems: Google Scholar, ProQuest´s Serial Solutions, Summon, Primo Central, Alma, EBSCO´s EDS Discovery Service and Knowledge Base, TDNet and OCLC. The CEEOL´s partnership with Clarivate Analytics allows Web of Science editors having access to the CEEOL platform for easier analysis, selection and indexing of CEEOL journals that interest the Web of Science community. Institutional subscribers (states’, universities’, institutes’ libraries, etc.) worldwide appreciate CEEOL for providing researchers, scholars, students, librarians and library patrons the access to indexed and archived Journals, eBooks and Grey Literature documents from and about Central and Eastern Europe by leading academic and scholarly publishers. The Bulgarian collection of journals and books holds a special place in CEEOL due to the high quality of scientific content and the depth and the completeness of the digital archives of the Bulgarian periodicals. CEEOL is a unique source of information for the development of Bulgarian humanities and social sciences for the past over 30 years, and that source could be used more widely in Bulgaria for supporting this development in the future. The study uses a comparative approach and analyzes the results of some of the business analytics tools of the CEEOL system.

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Тенденции в класификацията на лица с умствена изостаналост

Author(s): Milen Zamfirov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

This paper presents the historical tendencies in the development of classification of intellectual disability. There is an overview of the different revisions of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Additionally, there is comparison among different classifications of intellectual disability based on the revisions transition of ICD.

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