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The paper is focused on two movies, dedicated to the life and deeds of the Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev. Chronologically, the first one – “Freedom or Death” (1968), was directed by Nikola Korabov – a film director, considered as a part of so-called classical era of the Bulgarian cinematography. The second one, entitled simply “Botev” (2022), was directed by Maxim Guenchev – a contemporary movie director, known with his history-based works. In different time contexts, both movies were met with considerable criticism by the audience and cinema professionals. The paper pays particular attention to the reasons why these films provoked so many pronounced negative reactions. The first movie was not accepted positively because of the political circumstances took place in 1968. Prague Spring affected the whole socialist block. Thus, the movie by Nikola Korabov was seen as deviating from the politically correct line of the Bulgarian socialism, so its screening was stopped by the ideological censorship. The interpretation of the main character and the way the history events were shown was regarded as diverting from the socialist canon. Consequently, the movie was prohibited for public display. “Botev” movie’s reception was not particularly warm as well. The audience was influenced by the director’s pro-Russian point towards the Russian aggression in Ukraine. The same attitude was shared by the main movie character from the screen. It should be taken into account that nowadays the national-populism is in constant raise, and the dictionary of the social dialogue, dedicated to the problems of the national identity, is radicalized respectively. Concerning the artistic language of the first movie, it is defined as a style mixture with no coherent intention, as involving unnecessary Biblical reminiscences, overexaggerated aestheticization with no plot motivation. Summarizingly, the movie was seen as a display of mannerism, unfitting the idea of the national hero’s concept in its socialist version. The movie “Botev” by Maxim Guenchev leaves an impression for amateur, informal event, targeted for close friends and the families of the cast. In conclusion, the image of Hristo Botev was not properly screened either in the socialist period or in the 21 century and more than 30 years after its collapse.
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The book “Inter armа. The Premonition of War in Czech Culture (1935–1939)” contains texts representative of both Czech culture and the dominant attitudes in European cultural space, chronologically framed by the Spanish Civil War and the eve of the Second World War. The compiler of the collection, author of the preface, and translator of most of the texts is Dobromir Grigorov. The selected literary testimonies – journalistic essays, poetry, fiction, and drama – contain important intellectual insights, ideological messages, and pose common contemporary questions about the changing interpretations of concepts such as socialism and democracy, and their divergent interpretations. A significant focus in a number of texts is the clash between the individual right to freedom and justice on the one hand, and collective identity on the other. Some of the authors such as Karel Čapek, Vladislav Vančura, and František Halas are well-known to Bulgarian readers, but others are almost or completely unknown – Gustav Winter, Emanuel Vajtauer, Otokar Fišer, Milena Jesenská.
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The article is part of author‘s large study, dedicated to the linguistic presentation of the concept of ‗emptiness‘ in the Bulgarian and Russian linguoculture. The semantic components of the situation `approach` are considered as a dynamic conceptual model of distance, as well as the specifics of the verbal forms in the Bulgarian and Russian languages, presenting the situation of approach in its semantic structure. Particular emphasis is placed on the interlingual asymmetry between the elements of the two language systems and their internal semantic distribution.
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The article deals with the nuclear term of computer terminology computer, which is an anthropomorphic metaphor created on Eglish-American soil. Metaphorical transfer is one of the main methods of nomination and reflects the connection between cultural processes and language changes. The universal nature of this way of forming new concepts in the IT sphere and demonstration of its functioning as a mechanism of cognition, interaction of languages, consciousness and national-cultural specificity is reflected in conceptual metaphors computer-machine, computer-man, computer-mirror world.
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The paper discusses the role of the common slang nouns as devices for realization of evaluation strategies in contemporary Russian mass-media discourse. A distinction is made between slang nouns which express general evaluation and those which express specific evaluation based on a particular quality of the object. A contextual analysis of a group of slang words that give negative evaluation to people, events and actions according to the criteria referring to the norms of ethics is carried out.
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The article discusses the role of phraseological units in modern media texts and the realization of their expressive potential. Analysis of headings with a phraseological unit in their structure is carried out in order to investigate the creation of language expression in the media discourse.
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Phraseological figurative units contribute to establishing emotional atmosphere and providing a wide range of opportunities for author’s assessment of the political phenomena. The paper advances some excerpts of the writings of the famous philosopher and politician D. Blagoev as he was one of the founders of the new Bulgarian publicist style. The author has made an attempt to present Blagoev’s profound command of language and his skills to use phraseological units aiming at the formation and improvement of Bulgarian language of literature.
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The paper is devoted to the consideration of the features of statics and the dynamics use of the pronominal adverbs when they express spatial values in Russian and Bulgarian languages.
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The paper is devoted to the analysis of the contribution of the Bulgarian Russianists to the study of syntax of Russian language.
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The article examines semantic and stylistic features of the use of the Slavic enlighteners’ Cyril and Methodius names in the city newspaper “Kuznetsky rabochy” (Novokuznetsk, Russia) representing regional media discourse and demonstrating value system of the contemporary. The Siberian city newspaper actualizes the topic of the preservation of historical memory and cultural traditions.
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The present paper is devoted to different types of expression of blends in the texts of the mass media. Expression is connected with linguistic pragmatics, which means using persuasion by the author in order to have influence over a reader. The analysis has shoved the following types of blends: humorous, approving, ironic, disapproving and offensive.
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The article explores the frequency of use of specialized language resource that serve to initiate the speech interaction in colloquial speech practice. These are the forms of address and the various stereotyped labels. When initiating speech communication, the right choice of address or polite etiquette expression is essential and is a guarantee for successful dialogue in a consensual environment. The survey has a sociolinguistic character. A poll has examined the views of a large number of respondents. The questions in the survey are related to the stage of attracting the attention of the addressee and the realization of the speech itself in situations of formal and informal communication.
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Linguoculturology, due to its synthesizing specificity, is perceived as one of the most popular and effective directions of the anthropological paradigm of modern linguistics. The paper is devoted to the analyzing of the main directions of linguistic and cultural researches in Bulgaria.
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The paper presents the results of translator’s individual decisions regarding transfer of significant proper names from Boris Akunin’ novels into their Polish variants. The ecological perspective makes it possible to interpret multi-level subsequent relations of language units within the framework of ecosystems in both the source and the target language.
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The article discusses some peculiarities in formation of complex terminology names in the modern systems of terms in some Slavic languages. The basic models of composite forming of terms and the determination of its specificity are described by the use of Bulgarian, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian and Czech language materials.
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This article is devoted to the national and cultural aspects of the Russian linguistic personality phenomenon. The article is based on the material of the scientific research. The purpose is to identify the specific perception of the world by Russian linguistic personality and to analise phenomena, forming the lingvo-cultural field of Russian language (on the material of Vladimir region linguistic culture).
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Eagle is one of the oldest symbols. The significance of the eagle as the social and cultural unity is born in the depths of the world culture. Studied language material shows that the semantics of sustainable combinations in different languages determined by the action of such mythologemes as eagle ~ deity and eagle ~ people.
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The article deals with some of the main functional models in Russian linguistics, focusing on issues related to functional description for the needs of linguadidactics. It discussed the nature and structure of functional-semantic fields, their semantic division and their role in foreign language teaching.
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