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The aim of the paper is to represent some specific speech features of the local media from southwestern part of Bulgaria – the newspapers Struma and Vyara, the radios Radio Blagoevgrad, radio Focus Pirin, Darik radio – Blagoevgrad; the TV channels TV OKO, TV DARTS, BNT Pirin/BNT 2. The speech characteristics are a result of parallel processes of democratization and intellectualization as well as dynamic changes in the media.
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This article examines the concept “Home” in the Bulgarian picture of the world. The concept “Home” is presented via lexicography, proverbs and many texts – different articles and fiction. There have been instituted inquiries inquiries. The concept “Home” and the concept of the “family”.
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The concepts of work and laziness in the Bulgarian linguistic world picture has not yet been subjected to detailed description and analysis, therefore, it was elected to be the object of study. The perception of work and laziness allow to explore the system of social relations and the basic values of the Bulgarian society. The main idea of this work is to describe the implementation of the concepts of work and laziness in Bulgarian collocations, proverbs, idioms and stable expressions, related to labour, in which the keyword is work / job. The material used in this study is obtained from the collections of proverbs, phraseological and monolingual dictionaries, associative polls, conducted among students.
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This paper presents results of two investigations of the attitudes towards two types of pronunciation of the definite article for nouns of female gender, ending in a consonant. According to grammar and dictionaries only the pronunciation of the article as [-ta] is normative, while the pronunciation [-tə] is not. Participants in the first investigation (N=2018) listened to a recording of words, pronounced with article [-tə], and were asked to evaluate the pronunciation as right – wrong, sounding good – sounding bad, and belonging to eastern – western dialects. 10-degree scale was used. 88,5% of participants answered that the article [-tə] was wrong and did not sound good, but 60.1% of them did not know if this was eastern or western phenomenon. In order to check if these results were due to social desirability bias, a second study was done. Participants (N=314) listened to recordings of sentences, some of them pronounced normatively with article [-ta], and others pronounced wrong with article [-tə]. Then they had to answer if they hear any mistake in pronunciation, and to evaluate the speaker. 93,5% of the participants answered that the article [-tə] was normatively pronounced, and 88,4% – that the article [-ta] was normatively pronounced as well. Both speakers were highly evaluated. These results prove that the article [-tə] is so widespread, that people do not recognize it as wrong.
More...Magiczna moc słów w folklorze słowiańskim
Review of: - - - - - - - - - - - - - Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne nr 3/2012. Zaklęcie, zamówienie, zażegnanie. Magiczna moc słów w folklorze słowiańskim (ur. Michał Buchowski i Joanna Rękas), Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań, 2012., 316 str.
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review of: -------------------- Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne nr 7/2014. Antun Gustav Matoš (ur. temata: Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković i Goran Rem), Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań, 2014., 350 str.
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Leaving one’s homeland comes as a shock for an emigrant and his family. It is even more difficult when they decide to settle down in a country as far away from Poland as Australia is. Its exotic character, so different from European lifestyle conventions, can cause difficulties in adapting to the new culture and make the whole process last longer. Language and culture – the two elements closely connected with emigration are discussed in the article. On the one hand there is a need to preserve one’s own values, on the other, however at the same time, one must adapt to new values to avoid isolation.
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The Polish language keeps losing its position in comparison with other community languages. This is a result of new waves of immigrants arriving from China, Vietnam and Arabic countries. The article presents the current situation of Polish language in Australia referring first to the data gathered by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, then discussing factors that are crucial for language maintenance/shifting using the already existing models. The author divides the factors into ‘permanent’ and ‘dynamic,’ and then, in the second group he distinguishes between the factors that can or cannot be profiled. Such an approach reveals the areas where initiatives aimed at Polish language maintenance in Australia are most needed and can be the most effective.
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Organised education in Polish has existed in Australia since the middle of the last century. In terms of primary and secondary education, these extracurricular language classes are held mostly on Saturday mornings, rather than weekday afternoons. Some schools come under local Polish organisations such as Związek Polski (Polish Association), others are part of the Polska Macierz Szkolna (Polish Educational Society). There are also many independent schools which are governed by Parent Associations. These schools continue to gain in popularity – and have particularly done so in recent years. At tertiary level, the Polish language has also been offered at the Department of International Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney since the 1980s.
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In the article the subject of attention is the communication strategies of pupils in schools with Polish as the language of instruction in the Czech part of Cieszyn Silesia. The pupils know more than one language code – at a minimum, the local dialect, Polish and Czech, and they alternating between these codes in linguistic communication daily. The article presents excerpts from interviews with these pupils conducted by the authors (and researchers), in which the causes, methods and consequences of such specific communication strategies are revealed. The main triggers of code changes were found to be mainly changes of conversation topics and changes in the language of communication partners. The article also touches upon other issues: the conceptualization of the world through traditional dialect, the utility of dialects in the contemporary world of technological, scientific and cultural progress and the emergence of mixed supranational spoken languages, etc.
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Since Das Ostbulgarische by L. Miletich (1903) and the cartographic description of 8 positions for the Bulgarian Dialect Atlas vol. 2 (1966) publications on the dialect of Shumen have been few and fragmentary and have concentrated on the neighbouring dialect of Surta. The conclusions prove the quadripartition in the contemporary classification of the Moesian dialects by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2014).
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The article studies the substitution of relative pronouns and adverbs of the anaphorical type (such as ёже, еже, яже) by relative pronouns of the interrogative *kw- type, and their further extension by adding the particles -то and -се. Following the records of classical old Bulgarian manuscripts and early Bulgarian translations (based on 11th–12th century copies), the article traces the beginning stage of this process in the context of the overall Indo-European tendency. It is argued that the reasons behind this transformation are the reduced function of -ёже as a relative pronoun as well as its development of an indeterminate meaning, which brought about the functional and semantic closeness between the two pronominal roots (relative and interrogative).
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This article consists of two parts. The first part addresses several recent pieces of epigraphic evidence from Olbia. Data from the inscription containing Thracian Muca(-) are discussed, and a number of possible readings of the second and third lines are offered. The name on the recently discovered Roman flask is also discussed, concluding that it should not be considered in scholarly discourse. The second part deals with the place-name Βιργινασώ recorded in De Aedificiis by Procopius. It is argued that this toponym should be considered to be Latin, cf. Lat. adjective virginōsus.
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The paper deals with classification and analyses of the ancient and Byzantine written tradition about the Barbys(i)os/Barbyses river at the Golden Horn in Byzantium. The ancient (Thracian?) name Barbyses appears in two main functions: 1) As a Heros eponymous to the river Barbyses on the top of the Golden Horn in Byzantium; 2) As a mythical Thracian ruler of the land at the mouth of Pontus, Phidaleia’s father and father-in-law of Byzas. The interdisciplinary analysis of the mythological traditions suggests two possible stages in the development of pre-emporial Byzantium: 1) The earlier Thracian city of Barbyses at the junction of the river with the Cydaros river before it flows into the Golden Horn and at the altar of Semestre; 2)the later (new) city of Byzas and Phidaleia on the promontory of the Historical Peninsula in Byzantium, which overlooks both the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus. There the written sources already “visualized” the city’s walls “from sea to sea,” the historical acropolis and agora, as well as some religious institutions, outlining the transition from the pre-emporial to the early emporial stage of Thracian-Hellenic apoikia.
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The subject of research in this article are Jan Twardowski’s poems translated into Russian and compared to their original Polish versions. A purpose of the study was to check whether formal-esthetical equivalence within the scope of expressive names’ translation has been achieved. The issue of stylistic devices is crucial for poetry. The analysis of the original Polish texts indicates a conscious use of *diminutives or *augmentatives by the author in order to approximate a religious sphere to a reader. The comparison of bitexts allows to establish techniques used by translators in the translation process (literary translation, reproduction, tropization, detropization), aiming at achieving the equivalent esthetic effect and transposing an innovative language of faith to the level of Russian language and culture
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Eastern lands of the former Republic of Poland have always been multicultural and multilingual. In the 18th century there existed together languages: Old Church Slavonic, German, Lithuanian, French, Russian, Romanian, Polish, Rus’, Latin. Basilians printed texts in all those, so as to reach the greatest number of readers. It is important to marc, however, that in everyday communication were used only Polish and Rus’ languages (prosta mova). Other languages had been used in the literature, science, religious life. That is why the purpose of this article is to analyze the content of Polish and Rus’ language prints. This analysis is a basis to compare the scope of use of these languages. It can also be a valuable measure of the demand of Polish and Rus’ language readers for different type of texts. The analysis can lead to more complete picture of the eighteenth-century cultural and sociolinguistic situation of eastern part of former Republic of Poland.
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Precedent texts of biblical origin are characterized by high activity in the contemporary press discourse. Due to the continuous demand for exploration of the principles of their functioning, the study of these texts will always have the up-to date character. Precedent texts are essential in the context of their relationship with human personality, especially in the cognitive and emotional area. This type of texts, because of their phenomenal character, became a widely used means in the titles of articles in numerous newspapers and magazines. They create a particular type of expression, which should be present in the text of the press. The use of precedent texts in discourse is an indicator of the level of development of the linguistic personality.
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Writing, the carrier of culture and the symbol of human civilization, first appeared in Sumer. Like other ancient languages of Egypt and India, ancient Sumerian symbols have been lost in the process of history, but only Chinese characters still remain in use today. They have played a signifi cant role in the development of Chinese language and culture. This article intends to display how Chinese characters were created and how they were simplifi ed from the ancient form of writing to more abstract.
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