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The paper deals with the quantitative definiteness of objects and phenomena, which is treated as a semantic feature. Attention is drawn to the denotational means of expressing the quantitative characteristic and its parameters, which are interpreted through comparison and opposition. The specific expression of the features ‘plurality‘, ‘singularity‘, ‘collectiveness‘, etc, through the derivational means of language is presented in connection with its relation to the means of grammatical expression of quantitative definiteness. On the basis of examples from speech, the paper offers an explanation of the deviations from the norm of the literary language, which are due to the asymmetry between the “logical“ and the “grammatical“ in syntactic connection.
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The role of baby talk is shown as a specific linguistic register and communicative strategy not restricted to the adult’s adaptation to the specifics of the communication with the child, but also has teaching, socializing and creative functions as far as it reflects the reverse influence of the child on the adults, revealing the creative potential of both sides. The methodology of Conversation Analysis (Garfinkel, Sacks, Schegloff, Jefferson) is applied to the study of conversations/dialogues between adults and children, which does not presume or set up beforehand any theoretical models or schemes of interpretation, but studies conversations in their spontaneous flow, as a specific ‘local management’ mechanism (‘network of procedures’) for the ordering of turn-taking as well as of the positions and roles in a given conversation.
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Colors are present in all areas of our life, even their absence has a meaning, life is black and white or grey without colors. The study reviews colors black, white, blue, red, yellow and grey in the Bulgarian and Hungarian phraseology. Black stands mostly for death, sorrow and darkness. White is the opposite – it symbolizes birth, happiness and light. Blue connotes beating due to the hint a hit causes to our skin. Green means green light – free go – borrowed from the traffic light. Red is the color of health, yellow the color of illness. Grey is linked to economy.
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The text is an attempt to present and justify the existence of etymological word formation information in the bilingual Check-Bulgarian Dictionary of Interjections and Interjection Phrases. The focus is directed not that much towards elementary facts, but towards the opportunities which the application of such a diachronically-synchronic aspect, especially in a comparative plan, provides.
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The article deals with the use of the Bulgarian name for Christmas (Koleda) for an icicle in the Eastern Rhodopes and South Rhodopes Bulgarian dialects. The range of its distribution is described. Other remnants of the Christian past in the dialects of the Rhodopean Bulgarians, professing Muslim religion, are also mentioned.
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The main task of the translator – interlingual and intercultural communication, the transfer of meaning from one language to another – in the past and now, has always been almost the same in nature, only the tools available to the translator are changing and developing. What changes do we see in the area of translation? What do translators face and what do they need to adapt to? The text deals with the technologies that are already, and will continue to be, an integral part of everyday translation and points out some of the main translation tools that the modern translator works with.
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The paper examines the specifics of historicism and the relation between time and translation in the translation theory. The subjects of analyses are the three monographs in the field of German studies in Bulgaria, which are published by Lyubomir Ognyanov-Rizor, Anna Lilova and Ana Dimova. In the foreground is the interest in the principle of historicism in translation at the time of writing of the theory by the three authors. The development of this principle is investigated, as well as its applied potential.
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The article studies main speech features of the Parliament Question time. Examined are characteristics pertaining to diction, intonation, verbal aggression,cliches, as well as the relation question - answer. Given are examples of verbal aggression. Drawn are conclusions about the trends in Parliament Question time observed in the recent years.
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The research studies head movements of agreement and disagreement in publicistic TV shows. The emphasis is on the non-verbal communication and its manifestations in the televison. The object of the inquiry are the motions of „yes” and „no”. After substantial analysis of a significant number of videos, it becomes clear that the observed movements of the head are mainly on the vertical axis „up and down”. The results of the study are analyzed and summarized in table form.
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