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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 ... -
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 ...