While Viktor Sharenkov (1892-1963) is recognized as the first Bulgarian specialist in American literature appointed at the English Department of Sofia University in the late 1940s, his contribution to the local “inception” ...

The present paper sheds light on Bakhtin’s grasp of the individual’s role in achieving a synthesis of theoretical judgments and ethical personalism. My major thesis is that he uses the lexicon of Western philosophy, but ...

After WW1, the Avant-garde reaches Romania too. During this period literary life develops simultaneously with the European aesthetic transformations and submitting to the same laws, trying to escape the influence of ...

In contrast to the recommendation that teachers give at the beginning of the class, “Please, silence your mobiles” or “Keep mobiles in your pockets”; we bet to say: “The class stars, please take your mobiles and switch ...

The article deals with V. Vasilev’s research on the Elena Damaskin (which dates back to the second half of the 17th century), and the results of this research. It also presents the forthcoming edition of the manuscript, ...

The theme of death which is steadily present in the poetry of Konstantin Pavlov sets a wide range of receptive opportunities and reveals essential characteristics of his poetic world. The object of consideration in this ...

The paper is focused on verbal MWEs and investigates their usage in the Bulgarian National Corpus. The study employs a large dictionary of 27,902 Bulgarian verbal MWEs. The analysis aims at enhancing dictionary description ...

Speech units of different linguistic levels, especially of those of prosody and syntax, frequently overlap each other; thus, the final word(s) of one word group, being at the beginning of the next group, acts as a memory ...

The study presents the image of the young woman as described in the proverbs of two European nations – the Bulgarian and the Spanish. Due to the fact that proverbs express truths based on common sense or the practical ...

Timbre is the perceptual correlate of the sound spectrum (as, in some ways, the color is the eye’s response of the light spectrum). In the speech stream, timbre involves two basic types of sets of invariant neural properties, ...