Browsing Verba iuvenium, Issue 8 (2026) by Title
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AUTOMATIC WRITING AS LINGUISTIC REBELLION: THE LINGUISTIC REALIZATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This article tracksthe development of automatism by comparing the canonical Les Champs magnétiques by André Breton and Philippe Soupault with Remedios Varo’s automatic works. The automatic effect of Les Champs magnétiquesis ... -
THE AWAKENING OF LANGUAGE IN GAO XINGJIAN’S NOVEL SOUL MOUNTAIN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The work of Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian is not usually considered part of the Chinese avant-garde movement of the 1980s. This study identifies some of the possible reasons for this exclusion and attempts to revise ... -
BULGARIAN PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS ABOUT HARD-WORKING AND LAZY PEOPLE (STRUCTURAL FEATURES AND USAGE)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This text examines Bulgarian phraseologisms characterizing two typical human qualities – work capacity and laziness – from the perspective of their structural features and usage. In terms of structural characteristics, ... -
THE CHRISTIAN SIDE OF G. MILEVʼS POEM “SEPTEMBER”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The article analyzes the Christian side of the poem “September”, which was written and printed in 1924 by the main representative of expressionism in Bulgarian literature Geo Milev (1895–1925). The relevance of this topic ... -
CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN THE USE OF VOCATIVE FORMS IN BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This study analyzes the historical development and contemporary usage of vocative case in Bulgarian – the only grammatical category which survived after the loss of the other case forms. The analysis traces the evolution ... -
THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD OF WORDS: LANGUAGE AS OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE IN R. F. KUANG’S “BABEL”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This article examines R. F. Kuang’s “Babel: An Arcane History” through the lens of the “dark academia” genre, arguing that the novel reconfigures its traditional fascination with elite knowledge into a sharp anti-colonial ... -
THE ECHO CHAMBERS OF A CHILD’S TEMPORALITY: DICKENS’S GREAT EXPECTATIONS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)While paying attention to the soundscapes Charles Dickens builds in Great Expectations, I offer phenomenological interpretations of them, bearing in mind the child’s viewpoint and presence. The traditional phenomenological ... -
EXPRESSING NON-RELIABILITY BEYOND THE DUBITATIVE PARADIGM IN THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This study examines the uses of certain renarrative and conclusive forms in the Bulgarian online corpus CLASSLA-web.bg 1.0. The hypothesis is that these forms, in specific contexts and with particular surrounding markers, ... -
FROM OUTLAW AND ROBBER TO OWNER OF MNIBUS – THE MEETING BETWEEN BAE SLAVE FROM “CHAMKORIA” AND BACHO GICHO FROM “ELEVATION” BY MILEN RUSKOV
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This study provides a comparative analysis of Milen Ruskov’s last two novels, “Elevation” and “Chamkoria”, focusing on the main characters: bacho Gicho and bae Slave. First, the main similarities between the two works ... -
HEROINES OF THE NEW TIMES: EMANCIPATION THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF FEMALE GOTHIC IN THE WORKS OF ANN RADCLIFFE AND ANTONIA S. BYATT
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-06-21)This article focuses on the emancipation of women protagonists in the female Gothic genre, emphasizing their embodiment of the social norms and develop- mental opportunities of their time. At the heart of this trend, ... -
HOW “CUNNING” ARE THE BULGARIAN AND THE GERMAN FOX? (OBSERVATIONS THROUGH THE PRISM OF BULGARIAN AND GERMAN PHRASEOLOGISMS FROM THE SEMANTIC FIELD OF CUNNING – DECEPTION)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)Languages are a projection of the mentality of their users. Over the course of time, languages have developed alongside people’s way of thinking, reflecting humanattitudes, needs, worldview, and self-perception. This study ... -
HYPERBOLE FROM A PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVE (BASED ON THE WORKS OF A. MATVEEVA)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This study examines meaning and mechanisms of hyperbolization from a communicative-pragmatic perspective, focusing on how they serve to realize the speaker’s intentions in constructing the pragmatic framework of the ... -
IDIOMS WITH “GÖZ” (EYE) AS A REFLECTION OF SOCIAL ATTITUDES IN TURKISH SOCIETY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This study analyzes idioms containing the lexeme “göz” (“eye”) in the Turkish language as carriers of social attitudes and cultural values. The research examines how these fixed expressions reflect concepts such as control, ... -
THE IMAGE OF THE HOMELAND – A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE POEMS “RODINA” BY NIKOLAY LILIEV AND «H ΠΟΛΙΣ» (“THE CITY”) BY KONSTANTINOS KAVAFIS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The article examines early twentieth-century Bulgarian and Greek poetry through a comparative perspective, focusing on Homeland by Nikolay Liliev and The City by Constantine Cavafy. It explores how symbolism and modernism ... -
LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR CREATING REALITY – LINGUOCULTURAL AND NEUROLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE PROBLEM
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The current paper examines human language through the lens of two interdis-ciplinary science fields: linguoculturology and neurolinguistics. Firstly, we looked into the various ways the language is embedded in the culture, ... -
LANGUAGE AS RESISTANCE: PLAY AND IDENTITY IN GEORGI MARKOV’S “THE PORTRAIT OF MY DOUBLE”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The paper analyzes the literary language and the problem of play in the novella “The Portrait of My Double” as forms of resistance against the language of socialist ideology. The main thesis of the study is that the game ... -
THE LANGUAGE OF THE INTERNET FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN LINGUISTIC STUDIES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The paper traces the development of the Internet as a communicative space and examines language use in an online environment. From a review perspective, it presents Bulgarian linguistic studies that outline the typologies ... -
LINGUO-CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE SEMANTICS OF THE COLORS WHITE, RED AND BLACK IN BULGARIAN AND CHINESE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The main goal of the study is to establish the differences and similarities in how the colors white, black and red are perceived in the two languages and cultures. For this purpose, the paper sets several tasks: to apply ... -
THE LITERARY COLLECTION “THE CITY” (1922) IN THE CONTEXT OF THE REGIONAL LITERATURE OF THE YOUNGEST FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE 1920S
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The paper examines a literary edition that reflects the current dynamics of the Bulgarian literary processes from the 1920s – the collection “The City”, published in 1922 in Ruse and edited by collaborators of the Ruse ... -
MAN AS A REDUNDANT INSTRUMENT: A COLLAPSE IN FOUR MOVEMENTS IN “A BALLAD FOR GEORG HENIG” BY VIKTOR PASKOV
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The current study situates Viktor Paskov’s “A Ballad for Georg Henig” within the broader discourse on social and moral decline and examines the process by which the individual is displaced from being the artist of one’s ...