The manuscript with the library mark 182 from the collection of CIAI, written by the copyist Djak Andrey in 1425, commissioned by the Serbian patriarch Nikon (The manuscript is known also as the Panegyric of Djak Andrey ...

The present paper studies the use of grammatical forms for establishing, keeping and regulating the relationship between speaker and listener. This usage is the way in which the pragmatic aspect of the linguistic sign is ...

The paper compares the evidentiality systems in Turkish, Bulgarian and Albanian, and the evidential strategy in Romanian, with a special attention on the dubitative whose semantic content has two components – an evidential ...

The study compares the concepts HEALTH and DISEASE as fragments of the Bulgarian linguistic picture of the world. In both concepts we find a tendency for objectivization, animalization and intensification of the characteristics, ...

Nikolay Ivanovich Gretch was an extraordinary person – a public figure, publicist, editor and linguist. He developed a bifurcate approach to the theory of parts of speech, as he differentiated words from logical-semantic ...

The paper presents the current state of the Bulgarian sign language, and in particular its sociolinguistic and cultural aspects. We outline the characteristics of communication in the Bulgarian deaf community, the social ...

The main focus of this paper is upon the problem of how to chooselinguistic data for a linguo-cultural analysis. Dictionary entries, linguistic corpora, phraseological units, precedent texts, all have long ago been established ...

The present article analyses graphic hybrids – new productive units in Russian written communication. The use of Latin graphemes in the structure of a Russian word is seen as a method of occasional word-formation. Great ...

As a result of semantic, syntactic and pragmatic analysis of jokes we can identify the following functions of interjections in them: general expressive, emotional, figurative, illustrative, replacement, reinforcing, ...

This text is a functional and semantic analysis of a particular interjection whose usage is considered by many to be typical of the Balkans and whose meaning is represented in Bulgarian by the verb „to click one’s tongue“. ...