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 ...