Państwo bez wstrętu

Author(s): Przemysław Czapliński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

In this article Czapliński proposes to read Stefan Żeromski’s novel Before the Spring as a rather cruel project of the modern state. In this state the key subjects are communities (bioclasses and social classes) whose raison d’être are reproduction and productiveness. The biopolitical state must take them into consideration, as their usefulness transcends their own disgustingness. The state need not consider infertile classes (the landed gentry) or unproductive classes (parts of the Jewry), as their inability to meet the new criterion they are inexorably stigmatized as odious.

Актуално състояние на българската тюркология

Author(s): Sofiya Shigayeva-Mitreska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Семантични релации в рамките на многократнатa хиперонимия в Уърднет

Author(s): Svetla Koeva,Valentina Stefanova,Dimitar Hristov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The article proposes a description of the semantics and properties of the main semantic relation – hypernymy, between noun synonym sets in Wordnet (lexical-semantic network in which words are linked with the semantic relations between concepts to which they refer). The relation instance hypernymy is also presented, connecting proper noun synonym sets and synonym sets denoting classes, which describe a given named object. In this article the multiple hypernymy cases are analysed. Based on the hypothesis that one synonym set cannot be related to more than one hypernym, other semantic relations are defined in the scope of multiple hypernymy: origin, form and function, as well as the relation true hypernymy. Tests for the identification of new relations are presented together with some examples. The overall conclusion is that multiple hypernymy embraces several semantic relations which, in turn, are only partially shown within the Wordnet structure.

Preface

Author(s): / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

An overview by the Editor-in-Chief of the articles comprising the current issue.

Определения понятия «метод обучения»

Author(s): Leonid Moskovkin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2018

The article deals with the existing definitions of the concept of “teaching method” in the literature on didactics and the methodology of teaching foreign languages. Some of the definitions of this concept do not indicate its essential features, others view it too broadly, the third confuse the concept of “teaching method” with other didactic concepts. It is suggested to consider the teaching method as a kind of professional knowledge of the teacher. The teaching method is the image of the teacher’s and students’ activity in the teacher’s mind.

Важно сознаться, что ты не всегда прав

Author(s): Nikolay Kanchev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2016

It is Important to Understand that You are not Always Right - Interview of Doctor Honoris Causa of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Academician Lyudmila Verbitskaya

Инновационная подготовка будущих учителей русского языка: игра «Пишем учебник»

Author(s): Leonid Moskovkin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2016

The article describes one of the productive innovative technologies of training future teachers of the Russian as a foreign language in the course of teaching methods - the game “We are writing a textbook.” The stages of writing a textbook are examined. The examples of students’ innovative textbooks are presented.

Новые типы словарей как источники лингвокультурологической информации

Author(s): Valeriy Efremov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2016

The modern Russian-language lexicography provides vast material for national and cultural research of the Russian language. The article describes unique dictionaries of different genres and different scientific schools; each of these dictionaries includes important linguistic-cultural component. Special mention is made of associative dictionary usage for explicating such cognitive and cultural units as gender stereotypes

Сетевые инструменты преподавателя РКИ

Author(s): Denis Bukin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2016

This article describes the functionality of some online resources that enhance abilities of teacher of Russian as foreign. Attention is paid to online games on the development of grammar skills, services for creating visual schemes, online movies and video editing tools for creating new types of tasks given to students.

С песней весело шагать… (песенная технология как форма изучения РКИ)

Author(s): Denis Bukin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2016

The article defines the basic methods of teaching the Russian language with the help of songs. Different types of exercises for the realization of certain learning activities and the development of language skills are given.

По-русски: в диалоге культур

Author(s): Nadya Cherneva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2016

The paper presents an example of intercultural training as a model of interaction in foreign language teaching. The focus is put on the similarities and differences in different ethnic values and sociolinguistic behavior and their influence on the development of tolerance in intercultural communication. Special attention is paid to the terms’ minimum of theoretical base.

Почему мы так говорим? (краткий экскурс в историю фразеологии)

Author(s): Denis Bukin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2016

The article describes the main approaches to the study of cultural studies and cultural linguistics and justifies the importance of a more detailed examination of phraseology, as a reflection of Russian history and culture.

А. Ахматова, „Последняя сказка Пушкина“

Author(s): Suren T. Zolyan / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2016

A. Akhmatova, „Pushkin’s Last Tale“

Этноориентированная особенность лексики: немецко-русские соответствия

Author(s): Elena Nevmerzhitskaya / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2016

By the example of national and linguistical specificity of German vocabulary the author characterizes ethnocultural component of a word meaning, which is (like Russian one) nationally marked.

Езичеството през призмата на средновековния български книжовен език

Author(s): Tatyana Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 17/2019

The paper analyses that vocabulary of certain medieval Bulgarian written monuments which is related to mythological notions and religious believes of the pagan antiquity. It is part of a series of studies on specific lexical-semantic groups of words in the history of the Bulgarian language, both united and differentiated on the basis of their subject-logical links in relation to reality, which have been done with a view to collect material for the Thematic Dictionary of the Medieval Bulgarian Language. Analysis is based on language data of the earliest written monuments – of the 10th to 14th centuries – which are reflected in the Palaeoslavonic lexicographic editions. The following thematic units are studied: names of pagan religious buildings and facilities, terms of pagan religious practices, names of persons involved in pagan practices, sacred words and names of mythical characters. The study reveals the existence of a large and detailed thematic union covering numerous word items related to pagan culture.

Креативни образователни модели на работа с езиковото културно наследство: рефлексии върху дейността на Ателие Киликан, Фрайбург(Германия), и разработената методика, насочена към обучението на билингуално растящи деца

Author(s): Miglena Hristozova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 18/2019

This article describes the complex methodological background as well as diverse education forms developed by the multilingual Atelier Kilikan, Freiburg, between 2015 and 2018. It puts an accent on the intercultural and translingual potential, which needs to be widely discovered among bilingual children raised in the multicultural environment in Freiburg (located in the border area between Germany, France and Switzerland). It presents some examples of workshops and language courses for kids of Bulgarian descent, as well as some intercultural methods represented in the complex art installation “The multilingual monster” created by children of different origin, artists and pedagogical mentors. The methodology provides different ideas on how bilinguals can be encouraged to transfer cognitive and academic abilities from one language to another (translan-guaging) and thereby effectively increase their competences in the target language which they currently learn: In this regard, the methods presented here can be used in non-formal education courses of migrant, minority and family languagesThis article describes the complex methodological background as well as diverse education forms developed by the multilingual Atelier Kilikan, Freiburg, between 2015 and 2018. It puts an accent on the intercultural and translingual potential, which needs to be widely discovered among bilingual children raised in the multicultural environment in Freiburg (located in the border area between Germany, France and Switzerland). It presents some examples of workshops and language courses for kids of Bulgarian descent, as well as some intercultural methods represented in the complex art installation “The multilingual monster” created by children of different origin, artists and pedagogical mentors. The methodology provides different ideas on how bilinguals can be encouraged to transfer cognitive and academic abilities from one language to another (translan-guaging) and thereby effectively increase their competences in the target language which they currently learn: In this regard, the methods presented here can be used in non-formal education courses of migrant, minority and family languages.

Езикът на едно писмо на Иван Н. Момчилов от 1848 година (Граматични особености)

Author(s): Ivo Bratanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 18/2019

The report is written in connection to the language of one letter written by the Bulgarian Revival writer Ivan N. Momchilov. The article exposes important grammatical peculiarities of the language of this text. The review shows that Ivan N. Momchilov contributes to the approval of a series of grammatical norms, inherent to the contemporary Bulgarian language.

Speech Disfluencies of Preschool-age Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter

Author(s): Yulia O. Filatova,Dobrinka Georgieva / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2019

The purpose of the present study was to determine (i) the frequency of normal disfluency (ND) and stuttered disfluency (SD) in young children who stutter (CWS) and who do not stutter (CWNS) and (ii) whether SD serves as a risk factor for stuttering in CWNS. Participants were 30 preschool-age CWS (n = 14) and CWNS (n = 16). The speech (dis)fluency of all participants was measured from 100 words selected from samples of each child’s conversation and storytelling using the Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN, USA) Disfluency Count Sheet. Results indicated that CWS, when compared to CWNS, significantly differed in stuttered but not in non-stuttered disfluencies. Within-group analysis indicated that CWS exhibited a significant relation between total speech disfluencies and an index of stuttering severity and that a relatively few CWNS (n = 4) exhibited a percentage of total and stuttered disfluencies within the lower ends of the distribution for CWS. Findings appear to suggest that inclusion of the Vanderbilt Disfluency Count Sheet as part of a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of childhood stuttering helps fine-tune such assessment through consideration of both ND and SD in a child’s speech as well as the ratio between these measures of disfluency.

Shortening in the Language of the Navy

Author(s): Galina Velikova / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2019

The purpose of this study is the typology of shortened terms and terminological phrases in the language of the Navy using the lexico-semantic method. The examples discussed are excerpted from learning materials designed for cadets at Varna Naval Academy forming a large corpus representative of the domain they are used in. Shortening is used here as an umbrella term for initialisms, acronyms, clippings, blends and univerbates. The topic is worth discussing to meet syllabus goals and needs of learners who are going to function in a multinational environment and be faced with varieties of English as the primary language for international communication.

К вопросу о языке художественного текста русского романа XXI века

Author(s): Alexey Manchev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2019

The article is devoted to the analysis of the language of the literary text of the modern Russian novels included in university study programs. The features of the language are highlighted: occasionalisms, language game, obscene words. Some peculiarities of the language of mass literature novels are explored – jargonisms, verbal aggression, obscene vocabulary. It is proposed to include in the study programs the novels of writers which language is well studied, as well as to give a special status to the “institute of literary criticism”.