Die Eigennamen im Burgrechtsbuch von Rokitnitz im Adlergebirge (1572–1666)

Author(s): Lucie Jakubcová / Language(s): German Issue: 01+02/2016

Die Stadtbücher und überhaupt alle Schriftlichkeit der Kanzleien gehören zu den amtlichen Quellen, in denen die Eigennamen „textkonstitutive lexikalische Einheiten“ (KRÜGER 2004: 128) bilden und die „für den Textaufbau nahezu unverzichtbar“ (WINDBERGER-HEIDENKUMMER 2012: 301) sind. Die Anfänge der onomastischen Untersuchung von Stadtbüchern reichen bis in die 2. Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts (WEINHOLD 1867) zurück, es fehlen jedoch bisher systematische onomastische Untersuchungen vom Texttyp1 Stadtbuch (WINDBERGERHEIDENKUMMER 2012: 295), obwohl das Auswertungspotenzial dieses Texttyps hoch ist.

Meaning negotation in academic discourse: A typology of citations as semantic markers

Author(s): Tanja Collet / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

In academic discourse, citations constitute a multifunctional pragmatic act: they acknowledge the property rights of writers, create intellectual or conceptual linkages, and enhance the persuasiveness of a text. Citations can, furthermore, serve to negotiate term meaning within the text. In this capacity, they acquire a dual dialogic quality: as citations, they participate in the social construction of knowledge by engaging in a 'dialogue' with the writers of previous texts but, as semantic markers, they also interact with the text’s readers by responding to plausible needs for semantic clarification. The article’s main focus is to present a typology of citations used as semantic markers. An analysis of the rhetoricity of semantic markers in academic discourse is also included in the discussion.

Analysis of the UK prime ministerial discourse on Brexit: Thematic choices and their implications

Author(s): Ray C. H. Leung / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

This study of political discourse focuses on three selected texts about Brexit delivered by British Prime Minister Theresa May in early 2017. The texts represent three rare occasions on which May revealed to the public in detail what “negotiating objectives” the government has for Brexit. The three texts are: (i) the Lancaster House speech; (ii) Britain’s Article 50 notification letter; (iii) May’s oral statement in Parliament on the notification letter. Analytic tools from systemic functional linguistics (SFL) were employed to investigate the thematic choices in these three texts. The findings shed light on the interface between discourse and ideology. For example, frequent reference to the British society in the experiential Themes of the Lancaster House speech suggests that May tries to give prominence to the voice of the British people while addressing the general public. In the Article 50 notification letter, textual Themes which signal an adversative relation construe May’s optimism about the prospect of Brexit. Furthermore, the first-person plural pronoun we in the thematic position serves multiple purposes, one of which is to establish solidarity between Britain and the European Union. The current research underscores the contributions of SFL thematic analysis to the study of ideology in discourse.

Newspaper portrayal of teachers: A comparative study of representations of teachers in a British and a Czech broadsheet

Author(s): Dita Trčková / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The study compares representations of teachers in the Czech broadsheet Mladá fronta and the British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph, aiming to reveal their possible impact on the level of public respect towards teachers. The methodology employed is critical discourse analysis, combining an investigation of semantic macrostructures and recurrent transitivity patterns. It is revealed that both newspapers call attention to problems regarding the teaching profession, advocating social change and higher job prestige. The social significance of a teacher is enhanced in both newspapers by allocating a teacher not only the role of a transmitter of knowledge but also a moral guide concerned with social issues. The main difference between the two broadsheets is that The Daily Telegraph foregrounds teachers’ wrongdoings, while Mladá fronta highlights teachers’ accomplishments. This seems to be mainly due to the inclusion of a section with regional content in the Czech broadsheet.

Deux noms nouveaux d’aristocrates thraces dans une inscription de Kazanlàk

Author(s): Peter A. Dimitrov / Language(s): French Issue: 5/1995

Паисий Хилендарски: 300 години от рождението му и 260 години от завършването на „История славянобългарска“

Author(s): Margaret Dimitrova,Dimitar Peev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Малгожата Коритковска на 80 години

Author(s): Julia Mazurkiewicz-Sułkowska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Светлина Николова на 80 години

Author(s): Boyka Mircheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Уилям Федер на 80 години

Author(s): Anisava Miltenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Татяна Славова на 65 години

Author(s): Maria Totomanova-Paneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Искра Христова-Шомова. Охридски миней. Т. 1, Т. 2, Библиотека Охридски извори

Author(s): Veneta Savova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Ivan N. Petrov. The Development of the Bulgarian Literary Language: from Incunabula to First Grammars, Late Fifteenth – Early Seventeenth Century

Author(s): Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Философия с кауза

Author(s): Nonka Bogomilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2022

The paper discusses and analyzes the specificities of the creative interpretation as a reading comprehension. The creative product, especially in philosophy with a cause, is described as a personal projection of the author in the light of his/her professional background, values preferences, existential psychology. A special attention is paid to the value aspect of the creative process and the role of the author’s attitude within it. The studies in the philosophical-anthropological sphere are debated within the same perspective; the intellectual and the social challenges the author usually meets in this process are discussed.

The Commercialization of Patriotism

Author(s): Gergana Fyrkova / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2022

This paper addresses the issue of the commercialization of patriotism and its use in contemporary advertising as a factor to increase consumption. Patriotism and advertising have been going side by side since the beginning of mass media. Both are linked to the idea and practice of democratic persuasion, of communicating our views, values, and actions (products) as the best. This study compares patriotic marketing in America with patriotic marketing in the recent advertising campaigns of some well-known Bulgarian brands. Using these specific examples, we analyze the main features of the new marketing practices and campaigns in Bulgaria on the wave of patriotism.

"Nedělej tečku za mým rukopisem..."

Author(s): Jana Tůma Königsmarková / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2022

This article addresses the last creative period of the poet Konstantin Biebl (1898–1951) in the late 1940s and early 1950s and explores it in a broader cultural and political context, taking into consideration the poet’s character, the genesis of his last collection of poems entitled "Bez obav" [Unafraid] (1951), as well as the unexplained circumstances of his tragic death. Biebl was one of the leading representatives of leftist avant-garde art in interwar Czechoslovakia. In the early 1940s he stopped publishing. After the Communist coup in 1948 he tried to adjust to the period’s ideological and aesthetic norms as applied to the new literature in the spirit of socialist realism, which is reflected in "Bez obav". The article focuses on the events taking place after its publication, which culminated with the poet’s suicide in November 1951. The author presents these events and the relationships between the actors in the light of previously unpublished documents from the archival collection of the poet, translator and cultural official, Jiří Taufer (1911–1986), who was one of the key figures in the cultural policy of the period and the conflicts surrounding it. The author sees the main value of these documents in their focus on František Nečásek (1913–1968), the head of the culture and press department of the Office of the President of the Republic and the holder of several other posts, whose role in these events – possibly a very important one – has so far been somewhat overlooked. The article includes an annotated edition of contemporary and later texts, mostly of a personal character and unpublished, which illustrate the context of the described events. The article concludes with a summary interpretation of these documents.

Dokumentární souvislosti kauzy Konstantina Biebla (1940–1988)

Author(s): / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2022

This article addresses the last creative period of the poet Konstantin Biebl (1898–1951) in the late 1940s and early 1950s and explores it in a broader cultural and political context, taking into consideration the poet’s character, the genesis of his last collection of poems entitled "Bez obav" [Unafraid] (1951), as well as the unexplained circumstances of his tragic death. Biebl was one of the leading representatives of leftist avant-garde art in interwar Czechoslovakia. In the early 1940s he stopped publishing. After the Communist coup in 1948 he tried to adjust to the period’s ideological and aesthetic norms as applied to the new literature in the spirit of socialist realism, which is reflected in "Bez obav". The article focuses on the events taking place after its publication, which culminated with the poet’s suicide in November 1951. The author presents these events and the relationships between the actors in the light of previously unpublished documents from the archival collection of the poet, translator and cultural official, Jiří Taufer (1911–1986), who was one of the key figures in the cultural policy of the period and the conflicts surrounding it. The author sees the main value of these documents in their focus on František Nečásek (1913–1968), the head of the culture and press department of the Office of the President of the Republic and the holder of several other posts, whose role in these events – possibly a very important one – has so far been somewhat overlooked. The article includes an annotated edition of contemporary and later texts, mostly of a personal character and unpublished, which illustrate the context of the described events. The article concludes with a summary interpretation of these documents.

Словакистиката в СУ „Св. Климент Охридски“ на 20 години

Author(s): Diana K. Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2010

На 22 и 23 октомври 20 Юг. в Центъра за източни езици и култури към СУ се проведе конференция под надслов „Изток - Запад: езици, култури, общества“. Конференцията бе организирана от катедра „Арабистика и семитология“ по повод 70-тата годишнина на проф. д.ф.н. Пенка Самсарева.

The humour factor:

Author(s): Matilde Eiroa / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

This article analyses the social reaction to Francisco Franco’s exhumation from his burial place in the Valley of the Fallen at the end of 2019. This decision was taken by virtue of compliance with the so-called Historical Memory Law approved in 2007 and generated a great social debate. Apart from opinions in favour and against that decision coming from the political spectrum of the left and right, respectively, we observed a new attitude, that of humour, present in tweets and memes. By analyzing a collection of memes that circulated in Twitter and WhatsApp groups, our research shows that the new media have brought in content and symbolism that ridicule the late dictator, trivialise the treatment given to the “Caudillo” [Leader] of Spain for nearly four decades and contribute to an uninhibited interpretation of memory policies.

An intercultural pragmatic approach to English- Russian and English-German renditions of the formulaic That’s what she said-punchline in telecinematic discourse

Author(s): Monika Kirner-Ludwig,Aleksandra Soboleva / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

This paper takes an intercultural pragmatic approach to identifying and discussing rendition strategies of one specific punchline recurrent in scripted telecinematic discourse: That’s what she said. While this formulaic punchline demonstrates a relatively high salience in the US, particularly in oral and scripted genres, it issues more than one challenge to translators seeking to render it for other speech communities in a manner that acknowledges and retains the source pattern’s complexity as a discursively triggered and formulaic pragmatic idiom. We shall focus here on two specific target cultures, i.e. the Russian and the German, in demonstrating the challenges that this complex and linguistically as well as cognitively multi-faceted formula poses for its appropriation into either cultural sphere. Our study is based on a self-compiled parallel dataset of context-embedded source occurrences of That’s what she said and their renditions into German and Russian, thus offering immediately contrastive insights into the rendition strategies that translators have been employing to interculturally transfer this highly evasive idiomatic formula from one speech community to others.

A supportive climate may protect employees’ wellbeing from negative humour events:

Author(s): Ana Junça Silva,Antonio Caetano,Rita Rueff Lope / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

This study investigated: (a) the mediating role of affect between humour events and wellbeing at work and (b) the moderating role of psychological work climate in the indirect relationship between humour events and well-being at work, via affect. The moderated mediation model was tested through a study with 93 full-time employees. We used regressions and bootstrapping analyses to test the moderated mediation model. The findings indicated a significant association between humour events and well-being at work with affect as a mediator. Moreover, psychological work climate was found to significantly moderate the indirect relationship between humour events and well-being at work via affect, such that it become stronger when individuals were in a positive psychological work climate. This paper adds considerable evidence of the relationship between humour-related events and their impact on individuals’ well-being. Psychological work climate strengthens the association between affect and well-being after humour events.