REFLECTIONS ON SOME TERM COMBINATIONS IN HISTORY OF MODERN LITERARY BULGARIAN

Abstract

This paper analyses a terminological issue – the terms used to refer to the structure which appears as an antinomy of the New Bulgarian Literary Language, and which is referred to through various terminological collocations: народен/говорим език, народна/говорима реч, народни говори, народноразговорна реч. An attempt is made at defining and distinguishing between the content and the use of these collocations, as well as at outlining the promising and unpromising aspects of their functions in the linguistic sources with regard to problems related to the theory and history of the New Bulgarian Literary Language.