Browsing Verba iuvenium, Issue 3 (2021) by Issue Date
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MODELING OF SUBJECT WORLDS IN BIOLOGY AND LITERARY CRITICISM. AN ESSAY ON BARIERATA (THE BARRIER) BY PAVEL VEZHINOV
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)This paper aims to construct a theoretical model in order to allow us to rethink the concept of literary worlds. The basis of this attempt is the work of the biologist Jakob von Uexküll and his main idea of Umwelt. This ... -
THE REMAINS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM IN CORMAC MCCARTHY’S THE ROAD
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The paper aims to introduce readers to the concept of the American dream and analyze its evolution, which takes place alongside the gradual shifts in society. In an attempt to define this elusive notion, we shall ... -
LANGUAGE OF CULTURE AND CULTURAL SPEECH
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The paper deals with the issue of language and cultural interaction. The author studies the nature of culture and language, their mutual influence. The human worldview is considered a reflection of the language picture ... -
NOMINA ABSTRACTA OF -IѤ IN THE OLD BULGARIAN TRANSLATION OF ST. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM’S CATHECHISM (GIM. SYN. 478)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The present study examines the nouns with the form -Iѥ in the Cathechism of St. Cyril of Jerusalem. (GIM, Syn. 478). The excerpted material from Syn. 478 comprises 86 nouns of -ü¬/-è¬ – (53 simplex and 33 compound nouns), ... -
YOURCENAR’S IMAGINARY FATHER: OLD MELANCHOLY AND CHARMING RETICENCE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The paper examines Marguerite Yourcenar’s memoir trilogy “Le Labyrinthe du Monde”. The article is part of a broader investigation related to the staging of different voices in the author's work. There is no clear ... -
SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC SPECIFICS OF THE USE OF PASSIVE VOICE IN UTTERANCES OF PRESCHOOL CHIDREN (3 – 6)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The article regards the relationship between syntax and semantics in the acquisition of Bulgarian as a first language. The empirical data stem from the spontaneous speech of four monolingual Bulgarian children in preschool ... -
THE ROAD OF AND THE ROAD TO ‘THE LOST CHILD’ IN LYUBEN KARAVELOV’S NOVELS TURSKI PASHA (TURKISH PASHA) AND NEDA
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The author of this paper refers to Nikolai Aretov’s thesis in an attempt to prove that the plot about “the lost child” has a strong domination in a variety of literary works, but the main focus is on two of Lyuben ... -
THE MANIPULATIVE ASPECT OF COGNITIVE METAPHORS IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN POLITICAL SPEECHES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The article presents an analysis of cognitive metaphors in the speech of contemporary Bulgarian politicians. This study aims to trace the way for the formation and functioning of the manipulative nature of cognitive ... -
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 ... -
THE AUTHENTICITY OF THOMAS WOLFE’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL HERO THROUGH THE LENS OF HEIDEGGERIAN ONTOLOGY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)Southern author Thomas Wolfe’s ultimate goal was to create an epic that presents his America as seen through the eyes of an autobiographical character meant to represent all Americans, their lifestyle, their struggles, their ... -
ON THE FORMANTS WHICH TAKE PART IN THE FORMATION OF THE “PRESENT PASSIVE PARTICIPLE“ IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The following paper is a part of a bigger study, the subject of which is the “present passive participle”, or the deverbative forms with the suffix -m in Contemporary Bulgarian. The aim of this research is to examine the ... -
ON THE SPECIAL PHONETIC FEATURES OF CHINESE DIALECTS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The study examines data about phonetic features of Chinese dialects. It summarizes information found in English and Russian research, and reaches conclusions about the main characteristics of various Chinese dialects. ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
OSCAR WILDE’S NEW SALOME. THE FATALISM OF THE DANCE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The present paper analyses the figure of Salome as a new type of heroine in the context of Oscar Wilde’s drama “Salome” and in the context of the fin de siècle nineteenth-century literature. Salome has no name in the ... -
PHANTOMOLOGY – A MARGINALIZED PROJECT AND ITS BENEFITS TO LITERARY STUDIES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The paper explores the sixth chapter of Stanislaw Lem’s “Summa Technologiae” in which the Polish writer deals with the theoretical dimensions of what would later become known as virtual reality. The aim of the research ... -
MODELS FOR „BORDER” IN THE CHIFLIKAT KRAY GRANITSATA (FARM NEAR THE BORDER) BY Y. YOVKOV AND NA IZTOK OT ZAPADA (EAST OF THE WEST) BY M. PENKOV
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)Borders as an object of study are beginning to play an important role in postmodern political and social theories and cultural studies. In literature, all these aspects of the border can be used for the derivation of an ... -
THE POSITIVE CLASSROOM IN ASSISTANCE OF THE KEY COMPETENCE “LEARNING SKILLS” IN THE TEACHING OF BULGARIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN VITH GRADE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The learning skill is one of the key competences, which is an essential factor in increasing the efficiency of learning, shaping skills and competences, the idea of reality and the value system. A positive and supportive ... -
OPPORTUNITIES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE ONLINE TRAINING IN SPECIALIZED ENGLISH AS PERCEIVED BY STUDENTS AT THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY “PROF. DR. PARASKEV STOYANOV” – VARNA
(Plovdiv University Press, 2021-05-21)The article examines the attitudes of students at the Medical University “Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov” – Varna towards their online training in Specialized English. To achieve our aim, we relied on an online questionna ...