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Review of: Ан. Петрова. Езиковата метафора и балканската картина на света. Велико Търново, Университетско издателство „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“, 2003. 350 p.
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Review of: С. Ристић, М. РадиЬ-Дугонић. Реч, смисао, сазнање (студща из лексичке семантике) Београд, 1999. 276 стр.
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Review of: Обучение без граници - език и култура (Сборник с публикации от международната научна конференция, проведена под егидата на Европейската година на езиците в Департамента за езиково обучение от 15 до 17 ноември 2001). София, 2002, 494 с.
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An essay on peace and war, in the context of the Ukraine conflict.
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The aim of the article is to present and discuss the new release from the field of contrastive phraseology research. It concerns the monograph Phraseologismen und ihre Modifikationen in den Überschriften deutscher und polnischer Pressekommentare by Mariusz Frąckowiak, which was published in 2021. The aim of Frąckowiak’s study is to use a corpus of German and Polish press comments headlines from selected daily newspapers to work out a classification of phraseologisms and phraseological modifications. In addition, the study aims to determine frequency of use of phraseologisms and phraseological modifications in examined headlines and to identify the similarities and differences in this regard. The aim of the article is to show the way in which the author realizes his research goals and what results he achieves.
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Leibniz’s principium identitatis indiscernibilium excludes the existence of two different objects possessing all properties identical. Although perfectly acceptable for macroscopic systems, it becomes questionable in quantum mechanics, where the concept of identical particles is quite natural and has measurable consequences. On the other hand, Leibniz’s principle seems to be indispensable when we want to individuate an item and ascribe to it particular property (e.g. value of the projection of spin on a chosen axis). We may thus abandon the principle on the quantum level, claiming it falsity here, or (better) try to find other ways of individuation of objects, possibly by adopting appropriately the very concept of it. All these problems, and many other connected with identity and indiscernibility of quantum objects, are thoroughly discussed in the book of Tomasz Bigaj, unique in the world literature due to its comprehensiveness.
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Stuart Richie’s book discusses social, political, and cultural influences on science. In a series of well documented cases Richie shows how many of top scientific journals publish poorly executed studies with dubious conclusions. Such publications distort a public image of science as an unbiased search for truth. The roots of such practices, Richie traces to the way science enterprise is done in academia and in private research centers, where only positive and “expected” results are valued. While according to Richie there is a small chance to cure scientific practices from these ills, science itself is and remains the search for truth, even if our social moors make it so much harder.
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The original view of Joseph Życiński, presented in his book The Structure of the Metascientific Revolution (1988), boils down to the observation that almost before our eyes a great revolution took place, not in science, but in the philosophy of science, that is the meta-scientific revolution. His concept of the meta-scientific revolution grew out of his fascination with the revolution that took place in the foundations of mathematics in the first decades of the twentieth century. Whether a change in science deserves to be called a revolution is determined by whether the transformations it underwent also reached the meta-level. The set of presuppositions underlying transformations on the meta-level Życiński calls ideata. One of the aims of this article is to critically reconstruct the meaning of this term.The action of Życiński’s book takes place mainly on meta-level, but the meta-level constantly interacts with what is happening in science itself. The book sometimes makes an impression as if it were a study of the history of science, but history of science in a specific sense – something like a “sampling” of history with numerous examples. Among the creations of human thought, it is difficult to point to an area that changes more dynamically than science itself, but looking at it from a meta-perspective allows us to grasp those of its features that operate on a much broader scale.
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The beginning and development of the history of medicine as a science and academic subject in the medical universities in Bulgaria began in the early twentieth century. The purpose of this research article is to present three personalities with a major contribution to this process: Dr. Stefan Djakov, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vladimir Vassilev and Prof. Dr. Miladin Apostolov. What they have in common is that they are: prominent researchers in this field, authors of textbooks, publishers of periodicals, monographs, books on the history of medicine, teachers of the history of medicine and erudite personalities. The beginning was set by Dr. Stefan Djakov, the development was carried out by Assoc. Prof. Vassilev, who through his research in the field of medical history achieved unsurpassed peaks. The sustainability was achieved by Prof. Apostolov with valuable textbooks, high level of academic teaching, a large numberof students and followers and the wide popularization of the history of medicine in the society.
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This article analyzes, from the novel (colonial) Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra by Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, the reversal of traditional roles or the decline of an African family myth from a postcolonial perspective. The novel is about an innominate child who is forced to become one of the best defenders of vernacular customs of his people to the detriment of the Judeo-Christian religion chosen by his father. The central problem of the work to study is the difficult attempt to preserve the African tradition in a world that has changed after the arrival of the Spanish colonizers in Equatorial Guinea, in the case at hand. The main objective of the study is to show the importance of Occident colonization in what we can call the decline of an African family myth. Another task of this work is to show the survival of the perennial tradition-modernity dichotomy not only in literature but also in contemporary African societies.
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The writing of myth in Aranmanoth by the Spaniard Ana María Matute and Ekomo by the Equatoguinean María Angüe Nsue aims to present the importance of nature in a different point of view. Although these writers belong to different geographical and cultural areas, their works come together to place nature at the centre of human concerns.
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This article refers to the masculine-feminine opposition, starting from elements related to mythology to linguistic symbols. Starting from Greek mythology, which depicts the dynasty of deities, telling extraordinary adventures and which has not ceased to feed the imagination of artists for centuries. Throughout Greek and then Roman Antiquity, these stories evolved. Many contributions have been added, variations have been made according to places, times and the inspiration of the authors, new interpretations have constantly come to enrich an initial content. Bringing together elements of mythological and sociolinguistic research, my article presents how the collective mind has established that language, the words we use, is a cultural mirror, which symbolically fixes prejudices and stereotypes from the past.
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Colonial art of India highlights a remarkable blend of east and west – converging on grounds of matter and manner of expression. An important intervention of colonial experience on the cultural life of India was the establishment of art colleges in Calcutta, Madras and Bombay with an intent to ‘elevate’ the status of Indian art by teaching them western theories and finer taste. This paper examines the politics behind establishment of art institutions and how company paintings, portraits and representation of the picturesque became perfect examples of the amalgamation of east and west on canvasses. The paper also explores how this cross-cultural exchange revolutionized modern Indian art in the process.
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The following paper encases a short presentation of the conservation research regarding the overlayers of gilded polychrome statues, from the altars of the Roman-Catholic Dome in Timișoara. In the context of the recent conservation-restoration project for the rehabilitation of the Dome, the subject of this paper shows the challenges faced during the conservation and restoration works of the gilded sculptural ensembles. The human-size sculptures were covered over time with many gilded layers. The first phase of the research focused on the identification of the numbers of layers overlapping the original one, but the state of the conservation of the objects and also the principles guiding the preliminary research, didn’t provide much insight on the stratigraphy of the gilded polychromy. Thus, the preliminary results were insufficient. During the actual conservation interventions, extensive research was done, after eliminating the visible improper gilded layers, and showed a more complex structure. The challenge was to identify a correct method for the preservation of the historical interventions and finding a convenient and coherent method of aesthetical presentation of the gilded statues.
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If someone had told me 15 years ago that the innocent hobby of dressing up as popular heroes from movies would turn into a global phenomenon, I probably would not have believed them. At the beginning of the millennium in Slovakia, only a select few knew the concept of cosplay.
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