Keywords: Liechtenstein; History; Culture; Identity; regional studies
The book presents Principality of Liechtenstein in three parts: history; culture and identity.
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Keywords: word-formation; deverbal nominalization; Swedish; Norwegian;
This monograph is a comprehensive study that examines in a comparative perspective deverbal nominalization with the suffixes -else and -an/-en in contemporary Swedish and Norwegian. It contrasts the formal, semantic, and stylistic characteristics of the respective word-formative patterns, based on both intrasystemic (for Swedish and Norwegian separately) and intersystemic (comparative) analysis. This analysis encompasses not only word-formation patterns but also their constraints and the derivative lexemes they produce. The study offers also an account of some productive, as well as unproductive, competitive and complementary word-formation models, such as derivation with -ande (-ende), -(n)ing, -eri, zero derivation, and others. It outlines the similarities and differences in the main regularities governing the formation of deverbal nouns in Swedish and Norwegian.
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Keywords: phonology; palatalization; romance; slavic; diachronic phonetics
The book is based on analysis of palatalizations as phonological processes typical for the areas of both the Slavic and the Romance languages. Its scope is to shed light on the common features and the differences between these diachronic phenomena using the means of phonetics (articulatory, acoustic, perceptional) and of phonology from different stages of the evolution of this discipline (generative, linear and autosegmental, optimality theory).
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Keywords: Reformation: German culture; Luther; Calvin; Münzer; Narratives;
This is a presentation of the era of Reformation in Germany.
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Keywords: Mittelalter; Kulturgeschichte; Deutsches Reich; Sozialgeschichte; deutsche Dynastien
The book presents the history of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation in the Middle Ages.
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Keywords: cyberspace; hypertext; cybertext, cyborg; cyberpunk; computer-mediated textuality; electronic literature; posthumanism; transhumanism; phenomenology; body transformations; technogenesis
Posthuman Transformations: Bodies and Texts in Cyberspace explores the re/positioning of the human body and the evolution of the textual body in technological culture. Through the examination of a selection of fictional texts - both print and computer-mediated - an extensive account of the transformations of the bodies of fictional characters and the actual reader in interaction with/(in) cyberspace is presented. The book is interdisciplinary - at the crossroads of posthumanism, postmodern literary theory, phenomenology and the philosophy of technology. The author seeks to answer the interrelated questions: How is the human body imagined in print and computer-mediated fictional texts? What is the body’s role in redefining the human in technological culture?
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Keywords: passive; diathesis; legal; authority; pragmatics
The research is devoted to the passive diathesis in the legal text in French and its translated equivalents in Bulgarian. The work is both theoretical and applied. The scientific relevance and originality of the work consists in the complex study of the means of expressing passivity and the reasons for their massive presence in legal discourse. For the first time, such an analysis of the category of passive is offered in relation to a specialized language, such as legal language. The challenge of the chosen topic is twofold - on the one hand, passivity, and on the other, authority - two concepts of a completely different nature (linguistic and philosophical-moral-social), the relationship between which is primarily of a pragmatic nature and social effect. The saturation of the legal text with passive constructions is impressive. The reason is mainly related to the actions of the Authorithy, which are motivated by clear intentions and goals requiring the achievement of the required result. Passive constructions are preferred precisely because of their ability to express resultativity. The development is built on several basic principles borrowed from modern functional theories. They also determine the structure of the study - passive constructions in French and their equivalents in Bulgarian are examined on three levels - pragmatic, semantic and syntactic. A corpus of original texts in French and the official translations into Bulgarian were used as the basis for the analyses. The selected material includes mainly decisions from the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU and the text of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU). The volume of the processed corpus (about 1500 pages) guarantees the reliability of the results obtained.
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