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‘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.

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“Patch and Diamond.” Norwid, Hopkins, Dickinson and Their New Poetics

Author(s): Tomasz Bilczewski / Language(s): English / Issue: 26/2015

The above-mentioned poets are considered to be great innovators in the histories of their respective literary traditions. There are numerous volumes of critical commentaries on their works and their place within modernism. The aim of this paper is not to bring to the fore similarities of the changeable fortunes of their lives and oeuvres. It has already been noted in scholarly investigations that their poetry emerged on the literary map after many years of neglect and served as a sign of aesthetic avant-gardism. My main objective will be to examine how Norwid’s interest in the realm of seemingly banal objects can be contextualized within a broader horizon opened by such poets as Hopkins and Dickinson, who discovered surprisingly fresh, and previously inconceivable, ways of representing their encounter with reality.

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“Premadrostite” (“Great Wisdoms”) of Cyril the Philosopher

Author(s): Donka Petkanova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 19/1986

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“Wildness” as a metaphor for self-definition of the colonised subject in the Positivist period in Poland

Author(s): Anna Kolos / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2011

This article discusses the question of the Polish nation's self-definition in the Positivist period both in belles-lettres and in journalism, which were dependent to a great extent on the colonial discourse. It is argued that crucial metaphors of “wildness,” “savageness” or “backwardness” stem from orientalising labels created by the colonisers. Examination of this issue requires some basic introduction to historical and anthropological ideas which date back to the Age of Enlightenment. The aim of this paper is to shed light – by analysing literature examples such as Ludwik Powidaj, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Maria Konopnicka, Eliza Orzeszkowa and Henryk Sienkiewicz – on the so called “colonial trauma” that has condemned the Polish image to resentful ideology. Furthermore, the paper will provide arguments in favour of subscribing to the postcolonial studies in Central and Eastern Europe.

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“Заповеди на светите отци” в Синайския евхологий и западноевропейските пенитенциали

Author(s): Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 37-38/2007

The article summarizes the linguistic peculiarities of the oldest Slavic penitential known under the name Commandments of the Holy Fathers in the Glagolitic Euchologium Sinaiticum from the tenth-eleventh century in comparison with the new edition of its Latin prototype and some other Western Penitentials. Along with the Glagolitic copy and the most archaic Cyrillic one from the Ustjug Kormčaja (dating from the thirteenth-fourteenth century), the numerous transcripts of this text reveal its broad application and transmission in the South-Slavic linguistic environment. The preserved copies predominantly date from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century and contain only excerpts from the original corpus. The analysis is focused on some controversial readings that have already provoked the attention of the scholars. The apparatus of linguistic (especially lexical) discrepancies among different copies attests some significant features that enlighten the process of textual adoption. The manuscript tradition of the Commandments gives supplementary arguments for answering the questions about the time, place, and authorship of the Slavic translation and about the literary tradition this text belonged to.

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„Annales Budissinenses“ – nowe žórło k serbskim stawiznam zažneho nowowěka

Author(s): Madlena Malinkec / Language(s): Sorbian languages / Issue: 2/2016

The “Annales Budissinenses” represent an as yet unevaluated source for Sorbian histo- riography. The chronicle, which is preserved today in the diocesan archive of the Dres- den-Meißen bishopric in Bautzen, was recorded in the 16th Century by three scribes connected to the collegiate chapter of St Petri in Bautzen. The Sorbian cleric, Jurij Hawštyn Swětlik, made a partial copy in the 18th Century. The following thematic fields of the “Annales” are relevant for Sorbian history: 1. The “Annales” contain the oldest reliably dated sentence in the Upper Sorbian language, possibly the oldest documented Sorbian sentence ever. This is contained in an entry from the year 1534, in which building works for the tower of the Petri church are described. The Sorbian civil oath of Bautzen, which up until now has been thought to originate from before the Reformation or in 1532, is now regarded as a text which originated after the Reformation, in all probability some considerable time after 1532. 2. The “Annales” contain the names of four clerics who conducted pastoral care for Sorbs in Bautzen in the 16th Century.

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„Bakłażan” i „oberżyna” – pierwotne wspólne pochodzenie nazw psianki podłużnej

Author(s): Przemyslaw Debowiak,Jadwiga Waniakowa / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016

The article deals with the origin of two names of the eggplant (‘Solanum melongena’), commonly used in contemporary Polish: "bakłażan" and "oberżyna". A detailed study of the history of both terms in the wider context of other European languages allows for the explanation as to why they are synonymous.

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„Egoismus ist rational!“ Was „Schlagworte“ so „schlagend“ macht und was Ludwik Fleck mit Teflon-Wörtern zu tun hat

Author(s): Gerd Antos / Language(s): German / Issue: 4/2014

Behind the meaning of social keywords often there are meanings dependent on time, group and discourse. In a particular usage, these meanings resonate subliminally. These hidden, but sometimes very effective meanings are the subject of the so-called “sub-semantics” and are difficult to record in dictionaries. Against this backdrop, I consider the question of what makes a catchword so catchy based on many examples. Thereby, I focus on so-called “Teflon words” such as “success” which have the ability to drip off any criticism, doubt or common sense like in a Teflon pan. In particular, it is about the question why certain words especially from the fields of consumption, economy and politics have such a highly collective “self-persuasiveness” for certain groups and periods of time. In the attempt to answer these questions I refer to the Polish philosopher of science Ludwik Fleck.

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„Es ist mehr von einem selbst darin, als man sonst zu sagen wagt“. Josef Mühlberger über Franz Kafka

Author(s): Hans Dieter Zimmermann / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2009

Josef MÜHLBERGER war der einzige deutschsprachige Dichter aus den böhmischen Randgebieten, der in freundschaftlichem Kontakt zu den Prager deutschsprachigen jüdischen Schriftstellern stand, vor allem zu Max BROD; 140 Briefe BRODs an MÜHLBERGER liegen im Nachlass. Schon früh erfasste MÜHLBERGER die Größe Franz KAFKAS. 1928 mit 25 Jahren schrieb er seinen ersten Aufsatz über KAFKA in der von ihm und Johannes STAUDA herausgegebenen Zeitschrift ‘Witiko’, die eine Vermittlung zwischen Deutschen, Juden und Tschechen erstrebte; 1930 nach drei Jahren musste sie wegen des wachsenden Nationalismus und Antisemitismus der Böhmendeutschen eingestellt werden. 1951 hielt MÜHLBERGER in vielen Städten Westdeutschland in überfüllten Sälen einen Vortrag über KAFKA, in dem er die Einsicht in die eigene Schuld als wichtiges Thema des ‘Proceß’-Romans herausstellte, wohl in Anspielung auf die mangelnde Einsicht seiner Zuhörer in ihre eigene Schuld in Krieg und Nazizeit. Spätere Deutungen, vor allem die von 1960 und 1968, stellen stärker den bürokratischen Apparat im ‘Schloß’- und ‘Proceß’-Roman in den Vordergrund: die Welt ist finster und ein Labyrinth. Er findet bei KAFKA eine Nähe zur Gnosis und trifft darin mit Deutungen Gershom SCHOLEMS zusammen. In einem anrührenden, bisher unveröffentlichten Bericht aus dem Jahre 1978 erzählt er, wie an entscheidenden Stationen seines Lebensweges ihm immer wieder KAFKA begegnete.

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„Gier, Lust und Andacht“. Das Erotik-Konzept Josef Mühlbergers

Author(s): Lukáš Motycka / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2009

Der Beitrag deckt mittels einer Analyse des Faun-Passus aus ‘Verhängnis und Verheißung’ von Josef MÜHLBERGER die Diskrepanz zwischen dem prononcierten Konzept der Pan-Sexualität (als einer allsexuellen und allerotischen Harmonie) und der imaginativen Verwirklichung dieses Konzeptes auf. Die Analyse zeigt, dass MÜHLBERGER das erotische Konzept der Pan-Sexualität seinen Vorstellungen nach modifiziert und dass durch diese Pan-Auffassung die homoerotische Präferenz des Autors zum Vorschein kommt.

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„Ich habe eine Vier-Sprachen-Heimat“ – Gabriel Laubs Schaffen zwischen unterschiedlichen Sprachen und Kulturen

Author(s): Dorota Szczesniak / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2015

The literary work of Gabriel L􀵺􀶎􀵻 (1928–1998), a cosmopolitan journalist, satirist and aphorist, was strongly infl uenced by Jewish, Polish, Czech and German history, culture and mentality. The paper presents life and literary activity of Gabriel L􀵺􀶎􀵻, a witness of turbulent history, violent political transformation and dynamic social changes in Central and Eastern Europe of the 20th century. L􀵺􀶎􀵻, raised in a multi-ethnic environment, strongly criticized totalitarian systems and any violation of civil rights and liberties. L􀵺􀶎􀵻’s observations and ironic comments on historical issues and condition of his contemporaries are brilliantly conveyed especially in his aphorisms.

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„Innowacyjne podejście ma znaczenie…” Strategie komunikacyjne w reklamie

Author(s): Izabela Luc,Malgorzata Bortliczek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2014

The paper focuses on the analysis of the selected communicative and linguistic strategies, which are the sign of mass and commercial culture. The paper describes text games referring to structure and games referring to a selected linguistic variety. The texts of the advertisements analysed here illustrate creative and distorted adaptation of the linguistic features characteristic for the colloquial variety of Polish, the slang and even for the dialects in the context of the advertisements. It relates to such phenomena as innovation, morphological and semantic neologism, implementation of ambiguity and simultaneous exposition of the stylistic sources for lexemes and idiomatic expression. The processes described here do not use up the topic of the linguistic and semantic games but only indicate the selected mechanisms with the impact and technique of persuasion in the advertisements.

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„Разумник-укàз“

(Текстологическo проучване. Издание на старобългарския текст)

Author(s): Anissava Miltenova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/1986

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Јужнословенски пустињаци Х–ХІІІ века у најстаријој литерарној традицији

Author(s): Irena Špadijer / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 47/2013

A number of anachoretic cults were created in the period from the second half of the tenth century up to the end of twelfth century, in the region between Rila and Kosovo. It was in this region, defined as the authentic hub of South-Slavic literature, where Slavic hermits lived as early as the tenth and eleventh centuries. Both written records and oral tradition about their lives date back to a very distant past. The cults of the hermits who were proclaimed saints - St John of Rila (who died in 946), St Prochorus of Pčinja (the 11th c.), St Gabriel of Lesnovo (the 11th c.) and St Joachim of Osogovo (the 11th -12th c.), as well as St. Peter of Korisha (the 12th, possibly the early 13th c.) - were established very early. Some texts dedicated to these anchorets were definitely written soon after their death, as by the end of the 13th century there were already witnesses in the written tradition – namely, vitae of St John of Rila, St Gabriel of Lesnovo and St Prochorus of Pčinja), as well as church services dedicated to St. John of Rila and St. John of Osogovo. The earliest works on St. Peter of Korisha also belong to the thirtheenth-century literary tradi-tion. This paper looks at the oldest texts dedicated to these South Slavic hermits and analyses their inter-relations.

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Этимологический анализ некоторых параллельных фразеологических единиц

Author(s): Imre Pacsai / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 1/2009

The etymological analysis of Slavic phraseological units offers the possibility to discover new and perspectives correspondences, as justified by the findings of Opalkova (2004) and Mokienko (2008). This study contains the analysis of areal aspects of some Slovak phraseological units that involved as a result of cultural and linguistic contacts in the Carpathian Basin. Certain parallels were found between Hungarian and Slovak phraseological units, which made a more extended investigation necessary between the transmitter and recipient languages. The investigation included the examination of European languages that had direct contact with both Hungarian and Slovak to establish the presented or lack of a given structure. In the case of the examined parallel structures it was justified that the metaphorical image of the phraseological expression is generally missing from European languages. Further parallel forms were found in Turkish that envolved as a result of Finno-Ugrian and Turkish contacts. This phenomenon entails that the Slovak phraseological units arrived in Slovak from the Hungarian. The transmission is further justified by the fact that Slovak phraseology uses words in metaphorical images borrowed from Hungarian that have a Turkish origin. This relationship could only be formed via Hungarian and Slovak contacts. This comparative analysis hopefully contributes to the systematic etymological analysis of Slovak phraseology deemed necessary by Opalkova.

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ЭТНОЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКИЙ АНАЛИЗ ФИТОНИМОВ С КОМПОНЕНТОМ КУРИЦА/HUHN В РУССКОМ И НЕМЕЦКОМ ЯЗЫКАХ

Author(s): Elizabeta Jurievna Moiseeva / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 5/2015

This paper is the first to comparatively analyze Russian and German plant names derived from the noun курица/Huhn. The analysis is based on studying the nominational features of plant names and involves the ethnocultural data on 56 plant names derived from the Russian noun курица and 124 phytonyms with the German component Huhn. The nominational features of Russian and German plant names have proven to be generally quite similar to some peculiar motivations. The ethnocultural idea of hen as a symbol of feminine and fertility is also expressed by the analyzed plant names in both Russian and German languages. A number of Russian and German phytonyms should be recognized as corrupt or reanalyzed forms. The reasons for their motivational uncertainty could vary from changes in the folk etymology up to mistakes made by the authors of botanical dictionaries. The nominational features of some plant names need further studying.

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Этнофолизмы как прозвища с эмоционально-экспрессивной оценкой

Author(s): Yaroslav Dovhopolyy / Language(s): Russian / Issue: VIII/2006

The present article deals with the nicknames based on expressive and emotional evaluation.Those characteristics are based on conceptual partition of the world into the following categories:WE - OUR - THEY - STRANGE. The categorization based on the principles WE (ARE GOOD)- THEY (ARE BAD) is connected with explicit and implicit evaluation aimed at making the nativeethnos gracious and at insulting the foreign ethnos. Despite the ‘dipolar moment’, the appearanceof new nicknames at the given step of a language development is not easy to predict.

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Юбилейните сборници като свидетели на епохата. Към въпроса за рецепцията на Кирило-Методиевската традиция в модерната българска култура

Author(s): Ewelina Drzewiecka / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 25/2016

The paper analyses the thematic trends and uses the “grant narrative” about St. St. Cyril and Methodius represented in jubilee collections prepared in their honour and published after 1944, as the focus is on the figure of St. Cyril. It is noted that the official story about their work is built on two techniques: marginalization and shifting of meanings, and so it is stressed that the primary interpretive principle is nation-centric, as it fits into the National Revival model of functionalization of the Cyrillo-Methodian myth which is Enlightenment in its core. Special attention is paid to the vague use of terms such as „education“ and „progress“ which are associated with the phenomenon of “basic concepts” (R. Koselleck) in the field of Begriffsgeschichte. In conclusion, it is poited out that the analysis of the jubilee discourse can reveal not only the problems related to the history of the Cyrillo-Methodian tradition in Bulgaria, but also the more general question, which is the question of its functionalization in terms of modernity by using simplified key political and social concepts.

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Южнородопските български говори в Гюмюрджинско (фонетични особености)

Author(s): Georgi Mitrinov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2015

The article studies the territorial spread of the South Rhodopean Bulgarian dialects in Komotini region. A classification of the dialects according to phonetic particuliarities is made. The unity between the Komotini region dialects and the South Rhodopean Bulgarian dialects on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria is demonstrated.

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Южнославянска антология със сентенции Панарет

Author(s): Irina Kuzidova-Karadzhinova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 33-34/2005

The translated Gnomologion Panaret is not very popular sacro-profane collection of wise sentences. With the exception of the copy in MS 159 from the Museum of the Serbain Orthodox Church (fifteenth century), mentioned by M. N. Speranskij, the anthology is known also by the evidence in MS III/111 from Odessa State Scientific Library (dating from 1456) – the so-called „Predeli“ collection by Vladislav the Grammarian. The study of Panaret reveals an identical translation, but a different structure in both copies (because of the loss of folia). The anthology probably springs from the above-mentioned compilation of symmetrical excerpts from the Proverbs, the Wisdom of Sirach and from „Mellisa“ by Pseudo-Maximos, but the title refers only to the biblical books. The translation of „Mellisa“ in Panaret is without reference to the Russian „Mellisa“, but it reveals lexical and grammatical similarities with a Serbian copy of an excerpt from Pseudo-Maximos (again in MS 159 from the Museum of the Serbain Orthodox Church) which is related to the Bulgarian „Mellisa“ (in Cod. Paris. 26). The anthology appears together with similar kind of texts (another gnomological or erotapokritical works) in some encyclopaedic codices. The appearance of the collection could be related to the cultural circle in Resava as a result of the intensive literary work during the reign of Stephan Lazarevich. The Gnomologion Panaret is known only during the fifteenth century. It could be viewed as one more example of the interrelation between Bulgarian and Serbian literatures at that period.

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