The role of culture in teaching Serbian as a foreign language is discussed in this paper. The research is focused on cultural orientation, resulting in the adoption of national culture when students learn a foreign language. ...

This paper is meant to analyze the otherness (psychological and cultural) and the perception of Japan in Nicolas Bouvier’s book Le vide et le plein, Carnets du Japon 1964 – 1970. We have focussed on the meeting of Japanese ...

Judeo-Spanish sayings and proverbs were born of some experience; they carry a story or explain a tradition. Sometimes you can even create a conversation using only these known phrases. Some of these phraseological units ...

This text represents some different methodological approaches and teaching methods in literature education in the Bulgarian schools in Chicago and Boston, the USA. The specificity of teaching in these schools is determined ...

The names of towns, villages and anthroponyms are a rich source of information about the history, culture and topography of regions. Such knowledge is also provided by geographical names formed relatively recently such as ...

Language is the instrument used by human beings to communicate their thoughts and emotions. There is a clear dependence between language and culture. This correlation might allow us to raise the question: is language the ...

The paper presents the problems of translation of national ethnology in Bulgaria into new anthropological paradigms, based on cases in the 1990s. The anthropological fieldwork and analysis are based on cultural relativism ...

This paper discusses the binary opposition of persuasion and conviction as central to the understanding of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. The terms emerged in eighteenth-century rhetoric and reflected the gender stereotypes of ...

Among concepts that have become especially topical in contemporary Methodology of Bulgarian Language Teaching, the concept of culture has taken a special place. The exploration of this concept leads to the conclusion that ...

Ichiyo Higuchi was born in 1872 and died young of tuberculosis when she was 24. Coming from an ancient samurai family, at 14 she entered the Haginoya poetry school, where she received a careful classical education. When ...