The main goal of this article is to present some features of grammaticalization, lexicalization and pragmaticalization as processes that determine the language dynamics. In order to illustrate the process of pragmaticalization, ...

The main purpose of the paper is to trace the ways of graphic – based word play in Bulgarian and Russian advertising texts. Тhree ways of formation of graphic neologisms were identified: monographical, polygraphical and ...

The formants taken into account in acoustic analysis of vowels are more often the first and the second ones. This traditional model is extremely useful in foreign language teaching. The acoustic image of each vowel outlines ...

The first part of the article, dedicated to the largest group of the category investigated in the novel, presents the theoretical aspects (terms, definition) related to culturally marked translation units and realia as an ...

The paper examines the text type conventions of the patient information leaflet for the patient in German and Bulgarian. Special attention is given to the analysis of the verbal and non-verbal features and the means of ...

Language is the instrument of communication par excellence; during the Spanish conquest, Spanish was imposed in America over time and conditioned to different environments, socio-cultural changes and different realities., ...

The article explores the Spanish vocabulary used in Cuba. It deals with different words inherited from the aborigines that have been incorporated in the language during the process of the formation of Тhe Cuban Nation. The ...

The article demonstrates the influence of Japonism on some important and interesting parts of the literary works of Charles Baudelaire, more specifically on Les Fleurs du mal. The research work carried out is of great ...

The works of young Maurice Leblanc, the future master of the detective genre, are examined in our article sub specie Lupinianae. The very pronounced impact of Maupassant and of Flaubert does not exclude Leblanc’s tendency ...

With his final, posthumously published, novel, Thomas Wolfe digs deep into the human condition and comes to the conclusion that people, as a group and as a collective, deny the importance of individual existence. All people ...