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CELTIC BORROWINGS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)In the course of its existence English was brought into contact with at least three other languages, the languages of the Celts, the Romans, and the Scandinavians. As a result of these contacts certain linguistic features ... -
CHARACTER PATTERNS AND CHARACTER CONSTRUCTS IN EMILIA DVORYANOVA’S AND VALERI STEFANOV’S NOVELS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The article offers a new approach to the characters in Emilia Dvoryanova’s and Valeri Stefanov’s novels by outlining the way these characters are constructed. Since the two writers are part of today’s literary context and ... -
COGNITIVE METAPHORS AS A MEANS FOR LANGUAGE DEMAGOGY IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN POLITICAL SPEECHES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)Cognitive political metaphorology combines together the traditional scientific potential of the old rhetoric and new hyperdynamic linguistic constructs, which are an adequate reflection of the fast-developing society. ... -
COMPARISONS WITH ANIMALS IN THE WORKS OF THE SOFIA LITERARY SCHOOL
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The following report focuses on a topic which has not been studied yet. We examine comparisons with animals used in the original works of three authors, representatives of the Sofia Literary School. We analyze the ... -
COMPETITION OF DIALECT MODELS DURING THE BULGARIAN RENAISSANCE (PRELIMINARY STUDIES AND A WORKING HYPOTHESIS)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The incorporation and competition of dialect models during the Bulgarian Renaissance can be explained both with a number of extra-linguistic peculiarities and with deliberately enforced norms, which were probably motivated ... -
CORPUS APPROACH IN THE STUDY OF THE LANGUAGE DEVIATIONS IN BULGARIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)This paper is an attempt to present a comprehensive overview of the learner corpora as a significant tool in the research on foreign language acquisition. It aims to show the possibilities of the corpus approach in the ... -
CREATIVE EXPLOSION IN A BULGARIAN LANGUAGE CLASS IN 6TH GRADE, OR HOW TO ACTIVATE THE LEARNING PROCESS BY MAPPING IDEAS WITH THE HELP OF MIND MAPS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)In today's reality, it is often far more valuable to approach problems creatively than the knowledge gained in a given field. According to a number of authors, our brains work much more efficiently and cope much better ... -
THE CRITIC AND HIS JOURNEY TOWARDS “ODYSSEUS”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The following report examines some of Toncho Zhechev’s critical explorations of the 1960s. The work analyzes papers in three thematic fields – Bulgarian authors (of the decade in question) and their works, works by ... -
DARIO FO ON THE BULGARIAN SCENE – RESEARCH TRAJECTORIES AND ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The text presents the research trajectories that the topic “Dario Fo on the Bulgarian stage” sets in the process of its research. Three analytical perspectives have been adopted – biographical, artistic and receptive. ... -
DESCRIPTION OF THE -M/-EM DEVERBATIVES IN THE BULGARIAN GRAMMATICAL STUDIES AFTER THE BULGARIAN ORTOGRAPHY REFORM IN 1945 UNTIL NOWADAYS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The paper continues a previous study on the same topic which marked the main periods in the research of the present passive participles in the Bulgarian grammatical tradition from the middle of 19th to the middle of 20th ... -
DESIGN AND STRUCTURE OF THE BULGARIAN RENAISSANCE PHRASEBOOKS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This article addresses a current and unexplored topic in Bulgarian linguistics, related to bilingual colloquialists in the 19th century. The article deals with 11 phrasebooks from the Bulgarian Renaissance era. An attempt ... -
DISTRIBUTION OF THE DIRECT EVIDENCE FORMS FROM THE TYPE SHTE PISHEH, SHTESHE DA PISHA, SHTE BYAH PISAL, SHTESHE DA SAM PISAL
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The paper deals with the problem of the distribution of the positive relative direct evidence future forms from the type ще пишех, щеше да пиша, ще бях писал, щеше да съм писал in Modern Bulgarian. The use of the ... -
DO ALL MERMAIDS HAVE TAILS? (“INFORMATION DISTORTION” OF CULTURE-SPECIFIC MYTHONYMS)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)This work explores the twists in the meaning of the culture-specific mythonyms jiaoren, meirenyu, fenghuang and rusalka in the Chinese and Russian worldview. The work compares the representation of mythonyms in modern ... -
DOES GRAMMATICAL GENDER HAVE SEMANTICS? (OBSERVATIONS ON THE GENDER CATEGORY OF NOUNS IN BULGARIAN)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The present paper deals with the semantics of the lexical-grammatical category of gender in contemporary Bulgarian: the only issue related to that category, which scientists have certain disagreements about. We ... -
ELECTIVE AFFINITIES: CONCEPTUALIZATIONS ON TIME IN THE DIALOGUE BOTEV – RAKOVSKI
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)The paper explores the poetic relationship between Georgi Rakovski and Hristo Botev through a comparative analysis of the time constructions in some of their works. It focuses on the reception of constructive elements from ... -
THE EXCESSIVE INGENUITY OF CHATSKI. THE ABSENCE OF THE CHARACTER FROM “HERE“ AND “NOW”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The present paper addresses the topic of social typification and the nature of the so-called Griboedov’s characters. The main conflict in Alexander Sergeevich Griboedov’s comedy Woe from Wit consists in the clash ... -
FANNY AND SUWELO: SHADES OF LOVE IN ALICE WALKER’S “THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)In the 1980s, African American literature and culture reached new heights. Many women authors composed masterpieces and received a lot of critical attention and acclaim. Alice Walker had already unsettled and divided the ... -
A FEW CHALLENGES TO NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS PRESENTED BY THE FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC FIELD OF PERSONALITY IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)While learning Bulgarian as a Foreign Language, students meet diverse challenges. In the present article, we examine a few of the main challenges offered by the functional-semantic field of Personality. To do so we rely ... -
FICTION AND/OR REALITY. CRITICAL READINGS OF THE SINISTRA ZONE BY ÁDÁM BODOR
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)This paper tries to summarize a significant part of the researches on the prose of the Hungarian novelist Adam Bodor, focusing on the critical reception of his only one known novel by the Bulgarian readership – The ... -
FICTION IN INTERACTIVE ENGLISH CLASSES AS A MEANS OF EDUCATIONAL SPACE UMANIZATION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The article is devoted to the issue of humanizing the process of teaching English by means of fiction. The author points out that over the past three decades, the use of fiction in teaching English as a foreign language ...