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Are the principal victims of genocide in Bosnia falling prey to anti-Semitism?
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LINGUISTICS - STUDENTS’ SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE, 11 MAY 2010, BLAGOEVGRAD
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LITERARY STUDIES - STUDENTS’ SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE, 11 MAY 2010, BLAGOEVGRAD
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The article deals with the theme of old age and the collision between old age and youth in the novels of Annette Pehnt and Daniel Kehlmann.
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There are ten different hypotheses about the linguistic affinities of Xiongnu language and the problem seems to be irresolvable. Chinese historical chronicles are the only source of data about the language (but it is not impossible that Xiongnu inscriptions should be discovered (as it is clamed by some Chinese scholars). The data of Chinese authors should be studied more carefully and the phonetic adaptations of Sanskrit Buddhist terms into Chinese can serve as a very important tool for revealing the phonetic form of Xiongnu glosses. The Slavic world was a part of the wave of the European Hunnish invasion and Slavic peoples borrowed the word for "book" from the language of European Huns - a fact of great significance, throwing light on the cultural role of European Huns in Eastern Europe (and more precisely - on the role of Hunnish Bulgarians, the organizers of Slavic kingdom of Bulgaria). The Xiongnu tradition of naming castles "White Castle" was introduced into Slavic World by Hunnish Bulgarians and is a strong proof about the continuity of some features of the Xiongnu identity cind Xiongnu culture among the European Huns. The paper presents some examples of Xiongnu words and three Xiongnu songs - one in Chinese transcription and two in Chinese translations. The first poetry - the well known two-line prophesy, commented in many Turkic studies, is not actually Hunnic, as the "Jic" language, according to the sources, must be Tocharian, not Hunnish.
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LITERARY STUDIES - STUDENTS’ SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE, 11 MAY 2010, BLAGOEVGRAD
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The article deals with the advertisement text focusing on advertizing as being art to tempt the consumer. The author discusses the language peculiarities of this type of message taking into account mainly on the advertisements in the media.
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The article researches the idea of letter writing in Antiquity and common places in ancient epistolography. It represents a survey of chronologically listed quotations from famous Greek and Latin letter writers, translated by the author of the article, so that it claimes that the letter in Antiquity is perceived as a mean to connect friends intellectually and spiritually and it is a substitute of the author himself. The article also examines the Christian aspect of the epistolography during Late Antiquity.
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The article examines why one of the most illuminative contributions of George Lakoff with respect to ethics is concerned with the clarification of the so called experiential gestalt. It is investigated how our metaphors of morality cannot be derived from categories belonging to the natural order, as Lakoff claims, since all the ethical categories do not have physical analogs. On the other hand, some concerns about the status of the "metaphors we live by" are discussed. They are interpreted within the framework of LakofPs theory of moral metaphors, as long as the latter have the characteristics of metaphors of morality.
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This article aims to analyze the role of memory and reverie in the poetic act in Baudelaire's poem "Landscape", the poetic theme of which is the immediate reality of the creative process.
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The article deals with the rudiments of stream-of-consciousness technique used by James Joyce in the first two chapters of his novel. The author’s basic contribution is in advancing the interior monologue one step ahead by means of interpreting the unceasing stream of impressions and the constantly changing nature of human thought.
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The article discusses the implementation and consolidation of new and thematic vocabulary through playful activities based on children's stories and books. The latter is characterized by visual and contextually rich clear environment that facilitates perception and memory support. Deals with techniques that build on the vocabulary of students in the long run.
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In the present text is about the traditional Roman virtues, pietas and fides. You are in charge of the whole life of the Romans from the beginning of the Roman country until the decline of the Roman world. The source of the information is the correspondence between Pliny, in his capacity as Governor of the province of Bithynien-Pontus , and the Imperor Trajan.
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This article focuses on Milan Kimdera as an author who guides the reader through his text. The main object of study is his novel Immortality and the different ways of becoming immortal. It appears that the author's intention is to prevent us from reading "partially" and "in parts" but thus the author actually strives for his own immortality.
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This paper focuses on the editors of periodicals for children in the period between the Liberation and World War I. The children's literature was depended on the level of education. This is why many editors were teachers.
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LINGUISTICS - STUDENTS’ SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE, 11 MAY 2010, BLAGOEVGRAD
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The individualization of the factors that may influence on the process of word formation and the choice of semantic or formal agreement with certain classes of nouns plays an important role in the word formation morphology. A field study aiming at investigation of the factors that may participate in the formation and use of the Bulgarian nouns in the feminine and their models of agreement was held in Sofia and Blagoevgrad.
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The subject of this edition is a forgotten 17th-century Polonicum: a Latin panegyric in hexameter by Antonio Querenghi entitled Ad urbem Romam in adventu Serenissimi Vladislai, Poloniae Principis (To the city of Rome on the occasion of the arrival of His Most Serene Highness Vladislaus, the Prince of Poland). The work, published in 1625 in Rome, was noted in bibliographies of S. Ciampi and K. Estreicher as anonymous. This is because the only copy known of the first edition until recently, preserved in the holdings of Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, was deprived of the title page. The discovery of a second, complete copy in the collection of Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome allowed us to identify the author, namely the Padovan humanist Antonio Querenghi (1546-1633), who from 1605 served as the pope’s personal secretary (cubicularius), prelate and referendary of both signatures. The closest relation Querengi developed with Maffeo Barberini (Urban VIII), the “pope-Cicero” and patron of poets and artists, at whose side he stayed until his own death. On 19 January 1625 he graced with his panegyric the Roman visit of Prince Vladislaus Vasa, the later King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Vladislaus IV. The prince arrived in Rome on 20 December 1624, after an eight-month journey around Europe. Vladislaus, who tried to travel incognito, was received with all the honour due to the successor to the Swedish throne with the title of electi Magni Ducis Moschoviae (the elected Grand Duke of Muscovy). In the minds of the inhabitants of Europe, his person was also inextricably associated with the double triumph over the “schismatic” Muscovy, and above all with fending off Turks at the battle of Chocim (2 September–9 October 1621). Vladislaus spent the fortnight from 20 December 1624 to 2 January 1625 in the papal capital and took part in the celebration of the Jubilee. On 17 January he arrived there again after a short trip to Naples and left the city after only three days. Yet it was the latter short stay in Rome that the grandest reception in honour of the Polish Prince was held. On Sunday, 19 January, after a private audience with Pope Urban, at which only the closest curial dignitaries (with Querenghi probably among them) and officials from Vladislaus’ retinue were present, a sumptuous dinner was given with a concert afterwards. In the panegyric written for this occasion, Querenghi praises Vladislaus’ triumphs over “Muscovy twice defeated” (he meant armed attempts of the prince to the tsarist throne in the years 1610-1619) and over “the Thracian (i.e. Turkish) enemy”, the army of sultan Osman II. The ideological pivot of the poem is the pope’s planned general military expedition against Turkey: Urban VIII anoints the Polish Prince as the commander in chief of the upcoming crusade and a defender of Christianity.
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On the basis of the seminal paper On the Historical and Dogmatic Methods in Theology authored by Ernst Troeltsch and of critical assessments of his polemicists, mainly Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann, this article aims to recognise the recent tendencies in theological and philosophical development of the studies devoted to the early modern Protestant thought. The subject matter of the paper, which is not a bibliographical study but a description of current intellectual history, is concerned with the consequences of Troeltsch’s thesis, namely the separation of scientific lore together with its particular and different goals – the theological one concerned with doctrinal questions, and the historical one concerned with rise, development and change. Due to the doctrinal problems discussed in the first part, the contemporary ecumenical movement appears to be the main driving factor for theological recognition of early modern Protestant doctrines. Beside the several unquestionable benefits of the recent intensification of Reformation studies in Poland, there are also several disadvantages or inherent limitations of this branch of Polish scholarship. First of all, the conceptual framework typical for ecumenism poses a threat of anachronic attitude to the specificity of early modern religious realities that were different from contemporary conditions of the ecumenical movement. Secondly, it may overlook the semantic changes undergone by the historical meanings and modes of usage of particular terms, once used for specific intended purposes. Consequently, basic concepts devoid of historical significance like irenicism, toleration and ecumenism, lacking their Begriffsgeschichte clarifications, are too often used interchangeably, although there are pivotal differences between them. Moreover, the area ofthe interest of ecumenism is currently restricted to the historical precedents (irenicism, for instance) of the modern strive for an interconfessional agreement and is limited merely to the questions that divide contemporary Christianity (for example, the Lutheran doctrine of justification). Therefore, numerous other theological problems of Protestant Reformation are ignored. The second part of this paper will discuss the historical facet of the specificity of Troeltsch’s legacy.
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