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This article presents the use of foreign languages in Bulgarian statutory texts. Bulgarian law regulates the usage, knowledge, prohibition or obligation to use foreign languages in different spheres of public life. Legal stipulations concerning foreign languages are classified as obligation, prohibition, restriction, promotion and construal.
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The purpose of this article is to show the currently limited abilities of automatic translation, where the translation of syntactic models shows certain imperfections. Based on the experiment performed, the conclusions reached are that we cannot recommend to beginner and intermediate Modern Greek language learners to rely on the service of Google Translate for translation of phraseological units unless they are proficient in the language, as well as acquainted with native speakers psychology. Those imperfections are frequently noticed while translating texts in synthetic languages, such as Modern Greek, despite the analytical tendencies. The examples shown in this article focus particularly on linguistic and methodical issues.
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The process of teaching German as a foreign language during the socialist period used to serve two major goals: mastering the language as a means of communication on the one hand and formation of a new socialist worldview of the students on the other. A popular Marxist slogan from the period states that ‘a foreign language is a weapon in the battle of life’ and thus creating the ‘correct’ image of the German Democratic Republic of the working classes (the GDR) in language students was seen as an essential element of education. The paper takes into account German textbooks published in Bulgaria in the second half of the 20th century. The analysis of the historical and academic data gleaned from the textbooks focuses mainly on the techniques of introducing information about the GDR to Bulgarian learners of German, the historical figures and events presented in the texts, as well as the influence of socialist ideology prevalent at the time on textual materials.
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This paper puts forth the thesis that the early translations into Modern Bulgarian (2nd quarter of the 19th century) were profoundly influenced by the methods of teaching Ancient Greek authors which had been used ever since the Byzantine period. A focus is put on a particular translation technique consisting in the abundant use of synonymic binomials to replace single lexical items of the source text. It is argued that this technique has its origins in a traditional teaching method known as “psychagogia” which was largely applied in Greek education during the Ottoman period (1453-1821).
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The article presents a methodical approach in the classroom with students of advanced level of proficiency in Russian which will facilitate the learning process, develop all language competences, increase interest in Russian culture, strengthen the motivation to study the Russian language, among others. It is based on information about Tolstoy and his works and on ongoing Internet projects dedicated to the great writer started in 2014 . The article presents a methodical approach in the classroom with students of advanced level of proficiency in Russian which will facilitate the learning process, develop all language competences, increase interest in Russian culture, strengthen the motivation to study the Russian language, among others. It is based on information about Tolstoy and his works and on ongoing Internet projects dedicated to the great writer started in 2014.
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The application of new technologies to neurosciences contributed to revolutionary discoveries which allow to synchronise the methods of teaching with brain’s functional abilities. The mirror neurons, the sound of every language on a different sound frequency, the role of hypothalamus – ’the emotional brain” of memorizing – all these are scientifically proven facts. They can unleash brain’s reserves by using it completely, balancing its analytical and creative potential. The most innovative method that uses the brain reserves – suggestopedic method is still far away from the vision of traditionalists.
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The article analyzes some aspects of the semiotic-transformative model of translation. The first part problematizes machine translation. The second part presents the stakes of the science of translation, as it is understood by the Bulgarian semiotician Alexander Lyudskanov.
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The article regarded a concept as a linguodidactic category. Concepts education and learning are defined in relation to linguodidactics. The text analyses the main characteristics of the linguocultural concept and interpret it inlinguodidactic perspective. A definition of a linguodidactic concept is proposed.
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Data about scientific events in the field of the humanities in Bulgaria in 2019
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Applied linguistics has come under the sway of two seemingly antithetic views – one prioritizing the social, the other – bringing to the fore the individual dimension. The present paper is aimed at revisiting foreign language evaluation from a dialectical perspective which allows for providing insights into the role of affective factors. It reports on a socially-situated investigation of language performance that accounts for students’ motivation and anxiety conceived of here as symbolic resources. A total of 50 high-school learners of English filled in R. Gardner’s Attitude / Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) at two points in time and participated in a quasi-experimental study. A pre-test – post-test control group design was employed. The findings furnish evidence of the significant effect of increasing L2 motivation and alleviating anxiety on classroom L2 achievement.
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The article presents theoretical foundations of the dictionary of French words in Bulgarian language. Special attention is paid to Lexicographical principles, macro- and microstructure of the dictionary.
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The article helps Foreign Language teachers that would like to employ in their classroom a more varied idea to work with texts, namely what text linguistics has on offer. A system of 15 progressively compounding and building text-work activities is presented.
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The Russian-Bulgarian-Czech-Slovak-English paremiological core was revealed by the author in 2018. It is based on the Russian paremiological minimum of G. L. Permyakov and its reflection in the three Slavonic languages and the English language. The core is a condensation of a few author’s published collections of frequent current Slavonic and English proverbs and the results of the author’s sociolinguistic paremiological experiment. Special attention is paid to the semantics of Bulgarian proverbs as proverbial parallels of Russian paremiological minimum and – for the first time –t o the semantic specifics of Bulgarian proverbs as a part of the analyzed 5-languages paremiological core.
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Bulgarian Golden Age is, on the one hand, a time of territorial expansion and significant presence on the political map of Europe; on the other hand, it is the period of the first major peaks in Slavic literature, and, probably, in arts and architecture. At its core, the Golden Age is joining the spirituality and mentality of the Byzantine world and adoption of the achievements of its centuries-old philosophical tradition. The Byzantine models in literature were borrowed by using two co-existing principles: copying and adaptation. The former might be observed in most of the works intended for non-liturgical individual or monastic reading, which were translated in full. The latter is found in miscellanies compiled from partial translations and excerpts, or in Old Bulgarian translations that were abridged, edited, or reworked. The article aims at examining the most important examples of such adaptation and its features, pointing out the role of the aristocracy and the ruler himself in guiding these processes.
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