The present article deals with the problematic nature of teaching a pluricentric language as a foreign language. The article raises the question of whether to teach a single variant, a few variants or even all variants of ...

As expressions of practical experience, proverbs manifest the collective wisdom of humanity. The present study intends to indicate and compare the images of women and men as reflected in the proverbs of two communities – ...

In 1155 Wace invented the literary motif of the Round Table and introduced it into his Roman de Brut. In the beginning of the 13th century the meaning and symbolism of this motif fundamentally changed during the process ...

This scientific research dwells on the last novel of the famous German writer Christa Wolf City of Angeles or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud with regard to the issues of intertextuality and interculturality. In her autobiographical ...

In Hardy’s Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925) one stumbles upon a surprising variety of lack, expressed through the expiration of beloved people, the departure of sustainable hopes for a more humane ...

The aim of this talk is to set out some of the key aspects of the process of linguistic change which took place at the heart of the Mudejar community in the Iberian Peninsula during the Late Middle Ages. Subdued to an ...

The paper aims at presenting the contemporary state of the lexical elements of Turkish origin in the Greek press on material from the newspapers „Kathimerini“, „To Vima“ and „Ta Nea“. It discusses their status, frequency, ...

In the first part of this paper we highlight the features of the divergence as an accommodation strategy. We emphasize its place within the other communication strategies distinguished along the development of the ...

The translation process is not only an interesting but also a challenging task as translators serve as mediators. They render messages hidden in a literary work, unveil meaning and make the cultures of the source and the ...

The paper looks into ways of conceptualizing time in Bulgarian, Russian and English. Based on the theory of conceptual metaphor introduced by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson, it offers various metaphorical formulae and provides ...