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FALSE ANGLICISMS IN BULGARIAN YOUTH SLANG
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The aim of this paper is to analyze the formal and semantic aspects of false anglicisms used among Bulgarian youth employing Cristiano Furiassi's approach to pseudo-borrowings. The examination of the acquired data leads ... -
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 ... -
A FEW NOTES ON THE GENRE MODELS WITHIN THE CONFINES OF “THE GREAT TESTAMENT” BY FRANÇOIS VILLON
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)François Villon is a well-known poet from the Late Middle Ages and is often labeled as a forerunner of The Cursed Poets. His life is filled with wandering, crimes, stays in dungeons but also with residence in aristocratic ... -
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 ... -
THE FIGURE OF THE HOMUNCULUS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT LABORATORY: FAILED EXPERIMENT OR EMBODIMENT OF THE ETERNAL STRIVE TO BE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The present paper examines the figure of the Homunculus and its literal and allegorical perceptions in the famous Goethe's tragedy “Faust”. In general, it focuses on two of the most important interpretations of the figure: ... -
THE FILM GENRE SITUATION COMEDY – GENRE CHARACTERISTICS AND CHALLENGES FOR THE TRANSLATOR
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)This article aims to consider situational comedy as a specific genre and the challenges that its specifics pose to the translator. The study aims to demonstrate the difficulties that a seemingly so “simple“ and popular ... -
FOCUS PROJECTION IN BULGARIAN ENGLISH FROM AN EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVE: COMPARISON WITH BRITISH ENGLISH
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This paper investigates focus projection in Bulgarian English from an empirical perspective. The term Bulgarian English is used to refer to a variety of English spoken by English teachers who were born and have lived in ... -
FORMS OF INITIATION IN THE BOOK “THE LONELY WINDMILLS” BY STANISLAV STRATIEV
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)The article examines the ways of initiation in the book “The Lonely Windmills” by Stanislav Startiev. In his early works, children enter the world of the grown-ups in various ways. The meeting between the world of ... -
FRAGMENTS OF THE LANGUAGE DEPICTION OF A CERTAIN TYPE OF CRIME IN BULGARIAN AND POLISH
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)This paper presents fragments of the language depiction of the crime of human trafficking in Bulgarian and Polish. The theoretical part of the paper is based on the definition of world language depiction according to J. ... -
FROM DALCHEV TO HÖLDERLIN: THE FIGURE OF DALCHEV IN BORIANA KATSARSKA’S “ANOTHER NAME” AND IN MIGLENA NIKOLCHINA’S “SORROW A LA DALCHEV”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The paper is focused on the reception of Dalchev by the poetical books of Miglena Nikolchina, “Sorrow a la Dalchev” (1994) and Boriana Katsarska, “Other Name” (1991). Both poets address the figure of Dalchev but from a ... -
FROM FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE TO NOAM CHOMSKY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The subject of this paper is to compare the attitudes of Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky about the nature of language, with reference to the thoughts of the linguists who preceeded them and who had the greatest influence ... -
GRAMMATICAL AND FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC EQUIVALENTS OF THE BULGARIAN VERBAL ASPECTS IN MODERN GREEK
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The object of the present comparative research are the grammatical and functional-semantic equivalents of the Bulgarian verbal aspects in Modern Greek. The goal of the study is to identify the acts of inter-language ... -
THE GRAMMATICAL MORPHEME -H-/-SHIN BULGARIAN (HISTORICAL NOTES)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The article presents different undrstandings of distinguished linguists of the grammatical meaning of the morpheme -h-/sh- in Modern Bulgarian, Old Bulgarian and Proto-Slavic. The functional use of the verb forms that ... -
THE GRAMMEME RESULTATIVENESS AND THE PERFECTIVE ASPECT IN BULGARIAN AND THEIR GRAMMATICAL AND FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC EQUIVALENTS IN ENGLISH
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)The object of the present comparative research are the grammeme resultativeness and the perfective aspect in Bulgarian and their grammatical and functional-semantic equivalents in English. The goal of the study is ... -
THE GREAT SORROW OF THE LITTLE MAN IN THE WORKS OF YORDAN YOVKOV AND SERGEY DOVLATOV
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The topic of the little man has deep roots in the literary traditions of both Bulgaria and Russia. Although the image of a person pressed by circumstances, helpless before fate and surrounded by a hostile environment has ... -
HETAERA ESMERALDA. THE DISEASE CIPHER IN “DOCTOR FAUSTUS“ (THOMAS MANN)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)The present article deals with the function of the phrase Hetaera esmeralda in the novel “Doctor Faustus“ by Thomas Mann. On the one hand, the phrase is the name that the composer Adrian Leverkühn gives to the prostitute who ... -
HOW THE RELIGIOUS AND THE SCIENTIFIC INTERACT? (PETAR BERON – „THE FLOOD, HIS REASON, ACTION AND CONSEQUENCE”)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The purpose of this paper is to help us to acquire a better understanding of one of the great geniuses of the Bulgarian Renaissance who is mostly famous for his Fish Primer (1824). However, Petar Beron had built up ... -
HOW TO BECOME A WRITER? GEORGI RAKOVSKI AND PETKO SLAVEYKOV. THE DIFFERENT STRATEGIES OF AUTOREPRESENTATION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The aim of this paper is to throw a new light over the oeuvres of Georgi Rakovski and Petko Slaveykov who are among the first during the Bulgarian Renaissance, and who begin to bring diversity into their writing. It is ...