Browsing Verba iuvenium, Issue 1 (2019) by Title
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ABOUT THE LEXICOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF NOUN COMPOUNDS IN BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)It can be said that the vocabulary in almost every language is collected and systematized in different linguistic and encyclopedic dictionaries. The focus of this article is on complex lexemes (and specifically, on noun ... -
ALEKO KONSTANTINOV IN THE YEAR 1897 AND THE IDEAL OF BULGARIAN UNION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This article deals with Aleko Konstantinov, known for participating in a number of public initiatives, and, more specifically, with his position on current political events of 1897. Several texts are analysed, in which the ... -
ANTHOLOGIES OF FANTASTIC PROSE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CROATIAN ANTHOLOGICAL TRADITION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This article deals with anthologies of Croatian literature, particularly with fantastic prose anthologies. The main aim of the article is to differentiate the types of fantastic prose models, to analyze the selection and ... -
BJØRNSON'S SHORT NOVEL „SYNNØVE SOLBAKKEN“ AND ITS TWO BULGARIAN TRANSLATIONS: LINGUISTIC ASPECTS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This article focusеs on some special linguistic features of two different Bulgarian translations of Bjørnson's short novel “Synnøve Solbakken”. The first translation is based on a German version, while the second one – on ... -
THE BULGARIAN IMPERATIVE DA-CONSTRUCTIONS AND THEIR TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS IN ITALIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The object of analysis is the Bulgarian da-imperative constructions and their functional equivalents in modern Italian. The paper present a brief overview of the previous research conducted by Bulgarian linguists on the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“HOW TO PREVENT WAR“ – THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND SNAKES (BASED ON THE WORKS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This paper provides an examination of the relationship between theory and practice. It is based on Virginia Woolf’s theoretical views explicated in two of her essays: “A Room of One's Own” (1929) and its companion piece – ... -
THE ISSUE OF THE LEXICAL CONCEPT IN LINGUISTIC LITERATURE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This article discusses the different definitions of the term CONCEPT in Russian and American linguistic literature. Presented are the scientific opinions of the Russian linguists Sternin and Popova on the structure and ... -
THE JEDWABNE TRAUMA IN TADEUSZ SŁOBODZIANEK’S “OUR CLASS“
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The paper is focused on the artistic works inspired by the recent public debates in Poland regarding the country’s past and the difficult Polish-Jewish relations during the World War II, which were initiated by the ... -
JUDGES AND DEFENDANTS IN ANGEL IGOV'S NOVEL “KROTKITE” (“THE MEEK”)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The task of this text is to track how the novel “Krotkite” (“The Meek”) by Angel Igov presents one of the most emblematic images connected with the processes that began in Bulgaria following September 9th, 1944 – the ... -
LANGUAGE “ARCHEOLOGY” OF SOME LEXICAL GROUPS IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The aim of this paper is to observe some lexical groups in contemporary Bulgarian in whose roots traces of Old Bulgarian are found. The article suggests a classification of the excerpted words by phonetical, lexicological ...