Humility and patience are the foundation of all Christian virtues; they participate in shaping the image of holiness. The Old Russian hagiography of the 11th– 14th centuries allows tracing the development of the content ...

The novel My Name is an egotistical work. The metaphor of the mirror is symbolic in the quest of the self. Desillusioned and lucid about his its marginality, the author–narrator scrutinizes his past. He is writing secretly, ...

The article presents various interpretations of the name of Musala Peak. The discussion focuses on Anton Strashimirov’s idea that the peak be named after Paisii Hilendarski as well as the way that could be done. It has ...

Andriс’s perception of Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina in his literary works is widely known, accepted and disputed. However, it is less known that such understanding of Islam was not the consequence of writer’s imagination, ...

The paper researches relations between the author of the novel Sila (Albatross Library, FilipVišnjić, Belgrade 2010), Branko Brdjanin Bajovic, and Ivo Andric’s literary work. The direct relation can be detected in the essay ...

The text traces several definitions of “translatability” as a concept, drawing upon Walter Benjamin, Wolfgang Iser, Jacques Derrida, and Mary SnellHornby, in order to focus on the intersemiotic translation Jane Austen’s ...

Making an abstract of Nicholas Carr’s book „The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains“, this text suggests policies (in language and literature education) for resistance to „dis-education of homo sapiens“ which ...

This article describes the main theoretical problems of definition and pragmatic aspects of wordplay as a linguistic and cognitive-communicative phenomenon in the advertising discourse. We shall hereby discuss only the ...

I consider Latin adjectives with the suffix –osus as augmentatives because they include the idea of a bigger quantity or a larger degree of the quality they indicate. When they are borrowed in Bulgarian the suffix is ...

The last part of speech – the interjection is usually characterized by morphological invariability, syntactical independence and functional pragmatic isolation. Language, however, as a complex unity of meaningful characters, ...