ЗАГУБА НА КУЛТУРНИ СТОЙНОСТИ ПРИ ПРЕВОД НА ДОКУМЕНТИ

Author(s): Dmitro Gerginov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

In today's increasingly globalized world, the translation of documents of various types and significance has become an increasingly important phenomenon. The exact translation entails applying not only very good linguistic knowledge on the part of the translator, but also very good knowledge of (linguistic) culture of both countries. The “tailoring” of the translated text to the cultural characteristics of the recipient is becoming an even more urgent task of the translator. The present paper is an attempt to explain the (non-)use of different language versions in the process of cultural and linguistic adaptation in translating documents in the process of students training.

ЗА „СРЕДНОВЕКОВНИТЕ МОЛИТВИ ЗА РОДИЛКИ“

Author(s): Lyubka Nenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

СЕМАНТИЧЕН И ПРАГМАТИЧЕН АСПЕКТ НА ИМЕННАТА ДЕТЕРМИНАЦИЯ В БЪЛГАРСКИЯ ЕЗИК

Author(s): Vanya Zidarova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Noun definiteness is a functional semantic category with a wide range of means for expression. It is a specific noun category, unlike other noun categories. The definiteness is a communicative pragmatic category based on tree types of oppositions. The semantic opposition singularity/non-singularity. The communicative opposition reference/non-reference. The graded pragmatic opposition non-identifiedness/identifiability/identifiedness. Neutralization of the oppositions and competition among the determiners is realized in the generic use of the noun in the utterance.

МЕТАФОРА ПРИГОТОВЛЕНИЯ ПИЩИ В РУССКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ И ЛИНГВОКОГНИТИВНЫЕ АСПЕКТЫ ЕЁ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ ОБРАЗНЫХ СЛОВ И ВЫРАЖЕНИЙ, МОТИВИРОВАНЫХ ГЛАГОЛОМ ВАРИТЬ)

Author(s): Yelena Yurina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2018

The article presents the cognitive analysis of figurative vocabulary and expressions, which are metaphorically motivated by the verb boil. This verb names various activities, processes and phenomena by their analogy with cooking food in hot water. Propositional frame-based analysis facilitated the revelation of the cognitive structure of the frame presented by the verb boil and its subject / object oriented propositions which are based on the metaphorical projection of such phenomena as physical, physiological, mental, psychological and social conceptual spheres. The given system of images expresses metaphorically the concept of various processes and notions related to the transformation of material objects; bad physical state because of overheating, changes in character and morals, active team work, realization of social and political projects, intensive intellectual work, mixing different elements into one etc.

„НОВИЯТ ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕН РЕД“ В БЪЛГАРИЯ И ПРЕПОДАВАНЕТО НА БЪЛГАРСКИЯ ЕЗИК В ЧУЖБИНА

Author(s): Petar Sotirov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

The author argues that there is a new language situation in Bulgaria for which he uses the term „new linguistic order“. Its essence is that a number of language variants, which in the past had reduced or limited use, although not codified, are now part of the public linguistic norm. On the other hand, other language versions, which have so far been part of the norm and have been codified, have come out of active use. In order to prove the existence of the „new linguistic order“, the author brings facts from the contemporary language reality in Bulgaria. These facts represent different levels of the language system and its functioning in real communication. In conclusion, the author reflects on the problem of teaching Bulgarian as a foreign language, given that there is a large discrepancy between codified and non-codified language norms, between common and rare language practices. The reflections are based on the experience of teaching the Bulgarian language in Poland.

ТРИ ДОКУМЕНТА, СВЪРЗАНИ С ЖИЗНЕНИЯ ПЪТ НА БЪЛГАРСКИЯ ВЪЗРОЖДЕНЕЦ КОНСТАНТИН ПЕТКОВИЧ

Author(s): Galina Nikodimova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

The paper below presents three documents related to the life of Konstantin Petkovich, important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. The documents are attached in the following order: 1. K. Petkovich`s baptismal testimony from 1826; 2. Petkovich`s diploma for successfully completed education at University of St. Petersburg; 3. A baptismal testimony of Petkovich's grand daughter – Lyudmila, where his wife is mentioned as a widow of Petkovich who had the civilian rank of a secret counselor.

Първият „Българско-азербайджански речник“

Author(s): Leyla Aliyeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

Presentation of the first Bulgarian-Azerbaijani dictionary. Solmaz Suleymanova “Bulgarian-Azerbaijani Dictionary”, Baku, 2017, Aurora Publishing House, 682 pages.

БИЛИНГВИЗЪМ И ИДЕНТИЧНОСТ – ВЗАИМОВРЪЗКАТА МЕЖДУ ЕЗИК, КУЛТУРА И ПОВЕДЕНИЕ

Author(s): Iva Paneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2020

The article focuses on key theoretical and experimental studies discussing the relationship between bilingualism and identity. Encompassing an extensive body of psychological, linguistic and cultural research of various international authors whose work emphasizes the interdependence between language, culture and behavior, the paper aims to explore the factors that prove and showcase the link between cultural identity and behavior. By defining bilingualism through outlining the differences between simultanious and sequencial acquisition, the article presents the different definitions and opinions on bilingualism. It also reflects on how the socio-cultural environment affects the self-perception and cultural identity of bilinguals based on their emotional response and age of language acquisition. It is particularly important to stress the measurement of Bicultural Identity Integration (BII), as the high and low BII explains the levels of integration of each culture and language in bilinguals. The detailed presentation of important psychological experiments and studies with bilinguals proves the author’s position on the direct link between cultural identity, language and behavior, which is particularly important for the prevention of behavioral problems of bilingual children and psychological work with them. The article stresses the importance of conducting further empirical research in order to establish the factors and predispositions contributing to nurturing a bicultural identity in bilinguals, which will assure an integrated, balanced and self-aware personality.

РАЗВИТИЕ НА ПРОЗОДИЧНИТЕ МОДЕЛИ В РАННАТА ДЕТСКА РЕЧ

Author(s): Mirena Patseva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

The aim of the work is to trace the development of the prosodic models of the subminimal and minimal words in the child speech production up to a year and nine months of age. It is substantiated that the dominance of trochaic structures in the corpus of child speech reflects a general metric tendency of the Bulgarian language, which is also observed in studies of lexical units with unclear morphological structure. The study traces the quantitative weigh and ways of the realization of the tendency. It is expressed both in the predominant choice of binary units from the adults’ language that are reproduced prosodically correct, and in cases without prosodic compliance with the original word. Among the latter cases, we observe stress shifts to the left in iambic foot units and transformation of the structures into trochaic foot, shortening of units with ultimate stress to moraic trochees or epenthesis of a final unaccented vowel or syllable resulting in syllabic trochees. The main findings outlined in the analysis of the data of the early speech production are formalized by constraints ranking within OT. The dominant constraints of the minimal word stage are: preservation of the accented syllable and the right edge of the target word, as well as the tendency towards binarity of the speech units and left orientation of the accented syllable. In the next stage of mastering the prosodic structure of the language, a reorganization of the constraints occurs, with the dominant position being the preservation of the components of the prosodic structure in the presence of segmental modifications. The mastery of prosodic information is interpreted as a rearrangement of constructs.

ЗА ПОЛА, ДЖЕНДЪРА И СЕКСИЗМА В БЪЛГАРСКАТА КУЛТУРА И ЕЗИК

Author(s): Petar Vodenicharov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

The paper is provoked by the rejection and falsification of the messages of the Istanbul Convention in Bulgaria and other post-communist countries which caused a wave of homophobia. The author tries to prove that neither in the communist period nor in the post-communist period a real emancipation of women was achieved, the theme of homosexuality was a taboo (in the communist period), over presented in the first decade of the transition and later stigmatize by the rise of the populist nationalistic discourse. During the communist period, the so called “Unions of the fighters against fascism” turned into the male clientelistic networks granted with many privileges and marginalizing female antifascists. The critical discourse analysis of the press (1976) reveals male dominance and silencing of women playing mostly a decorative role. After the democratic changes the same male actors (nomenclature and former state security officers) benefited from the privatization, but the so called “mugs” (wrestlers) presented the new masculinity in the media: women were extremely sexualized and the new femininity was presented by the prostitutes and the girls in the entertaining industry, the professional women were rarely mentioned. The second part of the paper is a gender analysis of the lexical and grammatical system of the Bulgarian language. The analysis of the dominating metaphors reveals the means of male dominance in the everyday speech. Although the Slav languages have morphemes to denote women’s professions the media discourse prefers the male forms as more prestigious. The definite article and the plural forms serve to emphasise the male forms and to provide their euphony.

THE USE OF STANDARD ALBANIAN LANGUAGE BY PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Author(s): Shpëtim Elezi,Violeta Elezi / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

This paper investigates the level of standard Albanian use by primary school teachers for grades 1-5 in Kosovo as well as in the cities of Presheva and Bujanoc in Serbia. This paper investigates concrete situations and problems of standard Albanian and other varieties use in school. The research was conducted with a total number of 66 teachers in the form of a questionnaire and test on concrete problems of standard Albanian spelling norm. In order to have an example of a fourdimensional space, information on sociolinguistic factors, such as: work experience, region of origin, education, and gender of respondents were collected intentionally as important dimensions for a language. The research is of a descriptive nature and does not intend to provide assessments of a prescriptive nature nor take a stance on the investigated cases. Instead, in a more complete way, through the survey corpus, it intends to process the data statistically and present the current situation of standard Albanian use in its written form by primary school teachers. According to the research results, standard Albanian is not well mastered by the primary school teachers in Kosovo. However, based on the research results, in school we have a diglossic situation of different varieties use: standard Albanian, literary Gheg, dialectical (local) Gheg, which coexist depending on the situations of formal and informal communication that can occur in school, although in this domain of formal communication it is the high variety that is intended to be used.

ЕЗИКЪТ НА МЕДИИТЕ: ЕЗИКОВО СЪЗНАНИЕ, НОРМА И ГРЕШКА

Author(s): Mariana Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2022

The projections of the categories of linguistic consciousness and linguistic personality as prototypes of the power of language in general are sought in the work. The cognitive method is used to analyze the relationship between language consciousness and language personality, on the one hand, and norm and error as a clash of phenomena in the developmental process of language, on the other hand. The power of language is manifested and proved by linguistic media explication and at the same time “regulates” it through language laws and language norms. The media language refers to developmental processes in the vocabulary of the language. Lexicalization and grammaticalization can be traced and regulated in the direction of enriching the language and its future as a cognitive passport of national identity. The media discourse is a source of non-normative uses that should be prevented; it presupposes modern and up-to-date regulatory mechanisms in the direction of language protection and preservation - again as a cognitive passport of national identity and cultural sovereignty. The phenomenon for us is the collision of language - speech on the territory of human consciousness as an emanation of cognitive claim and communicative intention, more precisely in their section. Consequently, the problem is the extent to which the linguistic personality has a definite consciousness in terms of linguistic laws in order to present culture in its natural and a priori presentation.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD INDONESIAN LANGUAGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Author(s): Nurulanningsih Nurulanningsih,Amirul Mukminin,Nurhayati Nurhayati,Marzul Hidayat,Lenny Marzulina,Kasinyo Harto,Fridiyanto Fridiyanto,Dian Erlina,Muhammad Holandyah / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

This study aimed to examine students’ attitudes toward Indonesian language from public and private universities in Indonesia. Additionally, this study examined what aspects are considered unfavorable or adverse from students' attitudes towards the Indonesian language. The online questionnaires with 30 statements were used to collect the data from 812 students from public universities and 705 students from private universities. The instrument's validity was carried out by two methods of testing, namely the content validity test and the testing. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics with Independent T-test sample test. The findings revealed that students' attitudes towards Indonesian both from state universities and private universities were both in a good category, and there was no difference in the results of the different test attitudes with a significance value of 0.970. In terms of the aspects of loyalty and pride towards Indonesian, it was in a sufficient category. The findings also indicated that students’ attitudes in public and private universities were categorized as sufficient. For this reason, lecturers who teach the Indonesian personality development course further foster students’ awareness to be loyal and proud of the Indonesian language by prioritizing Indonesian in every academic activity. It is necessary to develop a sense of loyalty, pride, and awareness of norms towards the Indonesian language even higher.

THE ROLE OF THE MUSICAL HEARING IN THE FORMATION OF PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL COMPETENCE

Author(s): Marianna Popova,Ksenia M. Tokmakova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The main objective of the study was to determine whether the musical hearing may be considered among factors affecting the degree of a foreign accent in a second language (L2) and how important it is mastering the perceptual and productive aspects of the suprasegmental level of foreign languages by students of linguistics specializations. The results of the study showed that subjects with developed musical hearing performed tasks on both aspects - perceptual and productive - more successfully. However, there are reasons to assume that the significance degree of the influence of a developed musical hearing on both the perceptual and productive aspects may differ depending on a range of other factors. Therefore, further research aimed at establishing the role of musical hearing in the hierarchy of the factors affecting the development of the phonetic and phonological competence is of great importance. The obtained results might contribute to finding new original forms and methods of teaching phonetics of foreign languages based on musical art, as well as to improving the efficiency of mastering the phonetic-phonological competence by students of linguistics majors, and to creating auxiliary programs aimed at the developing of musical, and, consequently, phonetic hearing.

UKRAINIAN CHRISTIAN MARKETING: COMMUNICATIONS, VERBAL POSITIONING OF RELIGIOUS SERVICES AND GOODS

Author(s): Olena Klymentova,Olha Soroka / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Communicative features of religious marketing are new objects of study for the Ukrainian scholars. The actuality of the study is stipulated by the fact that the studied subjects belong to such general communicative and linguistic problems as linguistic programming of personality, language and religious identity, semiotic code, God substitution, communicative manipulation, suggestion, etc. The cognitive significance of religious marketing for Ukrainians is determined by the factors of its influence on the consumers. Consumer behavior depends on the communicative specifics of religious marketing texts. The authors distinguish the pathogenic influence and influential texts with pragmatic function. The objects of our research are the communicative features of the Christian marketing, Islamic marketing and Judaic marketing in Ukraine. The subjects of our article are the marketing of communications, positioning of religious services and goods. The tasks are the following: to analyze the communicative aspects of religious marketing of Christians, Muslims and Jews in Ukraine. The methodology of the research is based on the current approaches to scientific studying of religious communication and channels of its promotion. We use discourse analysis (critical) for the science qualification of interactional aspects, socio-psychological and socio-cognitive characteristics, frameworks and contexts. Religious marketing communication great progress has been made in new media. Within the frames of marketing linguistics, new media linguistics peculiarities are also analyzed.

Чешкият глагол tunelovat и неговите деривати – символ на икономическата престъпност от 90-те години на ХХ век в Чехия

Author(s): Pavel Krejčí / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The change in social and political conditions in Czechoslovakia and then in inde-pendent Czechia after 1989 caused significant dynamics in the creation of new words and expressions or the expansion of the meaning of already existing words. A symbolic representative of the emergence of new words and meanings is the verb tunelovat and its derivatives (tunelování, tunelář, etc.), which began to be used to describe a certain way of realizing economic crime, through which privileged individuals from the time of the communist totalitarian regime become a privileged layer of society and in the new conditions of freedom thanks to their connections, financial security from the past and their entrepreneurial cynicism. The article presents a linguistic analysis of this expression and its derivatives from the point of view of lexical semantics, word for-mation and frequency of use. The analysis is based on both the relevant scientific lit-erature and data from the Czech National Corpus.

Privileged and Deprived on Croatian Media on Facebook

Author(s): Dominika Kubišová / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The fascinating world of Facebook commentary sections under the news portals are considered. There are headlines about politicians who can exercise power and about people that are rich and successful and could inspire awe. When we talk about the language of the politics we mostly consider and monitor the language of politician or language of the media/yellow press. However, there is a pool of reactions in the com-ment section where people sometimes anonymously, sometimes openly express their opinions on what we can call elites. Research method is based on discourse analysis of chosen Croatian media on Facebook in selected timeframe. The comment section is an interesting paradox of spoken language in written form. We can divide the users into few groups a) the supporters and fans; b) in opposition; c) those who are (trying to be) funny no matter the situation; d) drawing attention to the deprived to level the field e) asking “who cares” or “who are they anyway”. The main contribution of this text is a monitoring of the language/social place that is not explored that much especially when it comes to small language environment. The comment sections reflect not only language in use but also moods, wits, and problems of its users and it could be taken into consideration about how this part of society feels and talks about privileged.

A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS ON EXCLAMATIVES IN THE PHILIPPINEvENGLISH (ICE-PHI)

Author(s): Myla l. Santos,Amirul Mukminin / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Exclamatives constructions in the Philippine English form a variegated class which is often confused with other types of clauses. These structures are characterized by intonation contour, emphatic stress and propositional properties beyond their syntactic form. Using the AntCoc protocol, this corpus-based study presents a survey of the categories and syntactical characteristics as well as the functions of the exclamatives found in ICE-PHI with 199 hits out of 1,172 tokens from the word collection. Key words such as what, how so, such a/an and others were used to locate the target hits of the utterances. Analysis was made on the syntactic and formulaic forms, semantic categories and pragmatic impressions. Results show that 'so' exclamatives posted the highest frequency, followed by the prototypes, and 'the such a/an' exclamatives. Minimal occurrences were recorded for DP – 'the way' exclamatives and nominal exclamatives. A majority of the exclamatives followed the initial exclamative phrase syntactic formula except for the 'such a/an' exclamatives which follow the subject auxiliary inversion. The syntactic features and functions of the exclamatives illustrated the semantic nature of the structures which differentiated them from seeming to be similar structures as in expressive/emotional utterance.

MOBILIZING HASHTAGS IN THE LIGHT OF THE SPEECH ACT THEORY: A CASE STUDY OF TWITTER POSTS RELATED TO RESTRICTIVE MIGRATION POLICIES

Author(s): Alexey Vladimirovich Sosnin,Julia Balakina,Antonina Jucovscaia / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The article implements an integrated approach to examining the mobilization potential of Twitter, which incorporates an analysis of intentions stated by the authors of hashtags and messages. The study cited in the article proceeds from J. Austin and J. Searle’s approach who argued that any utterance is essentially preparedness to perform an action, and examines the Internet space and social networks from the standpoint of the Speech Act Theory. The article explores the illocutionary goals set by the authors of topical tweets containing an explicit evaluation of Donald Trump’s restrictive immigration policy, and establishes the combinatory power of mobilizing hashtags (which call or appeal for action) and of directive speech acts. Established in the article are the most common patterns for the formation of mobilizing hashtags, alongwith the regularities of how directive speech acts and mobilizing hashtags are interrelated. To classify hashtags, lexical , semantic and folksonomic analyses are employed. The interrelation of hashtags mobilizing for action is represented graphically in Gephi software. The article suggests that to realize an appeal for action, the users rely mostly on the mobilizing potential of hashtags or tend to employ a combination of a directive speech act and a mobilizing hashtag, whose meaningful explicit appeal coincides in its communicative potential with the imperative verb realizing the directive speech act. It is concluded that in modern online communication hashtags appear to be a powerful autonomous instrument as far as mobilization is concerned.

Ukrainian Identity of Vasyl Stus: the Concept of “Freedom” in the Movie “Prohibited”

Author(s): Svitlana Kryvoruchko / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Historical reactualization is a hallmark of the biofiction genre and a modern aesthetic tendency in art, that revolves around the reflection of political and social processes, which affect the common man of the 21st century. The scientific problem is the interpretation of history in art, the use of biography as a creative material in cinema and literature, the formation of reliable historical memory of Ukrainians, the debunking of "myths", overcoming post-colonial Ukrainian thinking, raising the issue of the consequences of ethnolinguistic nationalism. The aim is the underlining of the concepts “Freedom” and “Safety” in the film “Prohibited” 2019, the interpretation of the evolution Vasyl Stus artistic image in the biofiction “Prohibited” from “Unfreedom” to “Freedom” through “Danger”, the understanding of the conflict individual / power : artist / crowd. I propose to sharpen attention around the problem of ethnolinguistic nationalism through the mental conflict “Ukrainian” / “Russian”, in which the historical memory of the Ukrainian ethnos is revealed as an intellectual aspiration influenced by the experience /burden of 300 years of history. The biofiction of the life of Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus, his ethical and moral position and aesthetic concept reveals the ethnic and cultural Ukrainian stratum, where the phenomenon of patriotism will be revealed at the level of the feeling “own”. Conflicts and characters uncover ideas: Vasyl Stus's love for his native land is his free choice, which reveals his individual virtues and prowess. In the pursuit of ethnic freedom, Vasyl Stus is revealed as having been defeated during his life, but gaining fame and recognition after his death. Vasyl Stus gave his life for: the development of Ukrainian literature, culture, art, and language. He is a patriot of “Ukrainian”. The poet's life is a version of art, it is wrapped around protest, around the non-acceptance by a talented individual of a totalitarian state, which suffocates and kills. Vasyl Stusy's steps are a resistance to Russian ethnolinguistic nationalism. The introduction of ethnolinguistic nationalism was imposed on everyone as the dominance Russian language, behind which is the discrimination of Ukrainians at the levels of: language, history, literature, culture, statehood.