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I attempt to restore elements of the horizon of perception that readers and listeners of the Bernabò and Zinevra novella (IX, Day II) from Decameron may have had in Italian cities in the mid-14th century. I discuss topics such as sustainability in social roles, cruelty and justice, the image of wolves, topography, the relationship between fairy tale and authenticity, the importance of the exemplum. The novel exemplum conveys experience, indicates a norm and its violation. Speaking of truth, deception and punishment, the short story establishes a pattern of behaviour.
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The article analyzes Victor Paskov's story "The Ballad of Georg Henich", following the four genre paradigms that build its unique composition. These paradigms are: ballad, story, memoir and passion. Each of them has its own way of processing the life material, its own composition and way of building the images of the main characters, its own way of posing the artistic problem, as well as a specific way of impact and social function. Despite the differences between the four genre paradigms clearly present in this book, its semantic world is emphatically unified. This unity is ensured by the fact that the idea of truth underlies all four genre models. In essence, this book observes four ways of presenting and evaluating the truth, which are so organically intertwined that they form a unique, harmonious and emotionally convincing whole.
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The article reveals the attitude of “Zlatorog” towards state policies in culture and education. With the help of the problem-chronological and culturological approach is substantiated the statement that the journal insists on the state management of the spiritual life to be based on the principles of high professionalism, humanity and free development of the creative abilities. Some new arguments support the view that this journal is not apolitical and aesthetically self-closed, but is an active participant in the public debate on the culture and the value formation of young people. “Zlatorog” is presented as a platform for independent intellectuals concerned with the spiritual growth of society who critically analyze the state’s cultural and educational directives and act as their corrective.
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The object of this article are the books from the series Children's Life which Geo Milev published in 1913 and 1914. In literary studies the series has usually been mentioned in order to illustrate the early literary interests and publishing ambitions of its author and only single poems from the books have been interpreted by the scholars when presenting his children’s works. The aim of this article is to prove that as an integral initiative the poems from Children’s Life can be placed in the broader context of Geo Milev’s modernist project. In the first part of the article the history of the series is presented and an unknown poem by the poet is published. In the second part it is emphasized on the author’s desire to show his readers the modernist parameters of what he called “aesthetic emotion”.
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The paper aims to comment on the representation of the 1920s, seen through the last few years of the lives of the poet Geo Milev and the anarchist Georgi Sheytanov, as shown in one of the most famous contemporary Bulgarian novels, written by Hristo Karastoyanov, “The Same Night Awaits Us All”. In order this to be achieved a few key scenes are analyzed, since they introduce main themes and narrative strategies, followed throughout the novel, as well as point out the allegorical contrast between light and darkness, good and evil. Subject to interpretation are also the characters’ motifs, actions, emotional states and reactions, particularly to the presence of death, which seems to be impossible to overlook and plays an importing part in setting the overall tone of the novel.
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This paper attempts to show how medical terminology and medical connotations mark concepts that later become central to philosophical, cultural, political, and social discourse. In this case, the chosen concept is the notion of crisis, which has been central to medicine since antiquity, has marked with meanings all subsequent epochs, and has become significant for our entire modernity. In short, it shows how medical connotations carry over to unrestricted uses in the broader context of language, and the concept of crisis is open to uses of different orders and in diverse contexts. To arrive at the conviction that its use as a metaphor for states of decline, failure, degeneration, ruin prevails. It is said to be a crisis, but as in medicine, it refers to deterioration.
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Based on the fieldwork research of Serbs in Arad county (Romania) done in 2013–2015, the paper analyzes narratives about personal relocation to the city of Arad and elements of biographical stories given in the form of digressions in narratives covering the themes of traditional Serbian culture. Collected material comes from the settlements of Nadjfala/Satu Mare, Felnak/Felnac, Monoštor/Mănăştur Munara/Munar, Tornja/Turnu, town of Arad, as well as from published memories of the victims of communism. The time period covered in the narratives starts from the period of communism, through the Revolution of 1989, all the way to the modern, parallel world and double life in the villages and Arad at the same time. The narratives are divided into five thematic units that cover the current situation in the settlement, memories of the Felnac tamburitza orchestra, trips to Arad from a children’s perspective, fragments about everyday life in Arad and today’s situation of emotional division between the village and the city. The attached transcripts are verbatim and reflect the different degrees of preservation of the Serbian language (Šumadija-Vojvodina dialect) and the corresponding influence of the Romanian language in each individual participant.
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The article analyzes specificities in the language practice of the famous literary critic Prof. Boris Yotsov. Тhe focus of attention is the domestic layer of words: the presence of archaic vocabulary from the Old Bulgarian period, rare and dialect words, dynamics in the word-forming variance of names; shortening the noun base of words, etc. B. Yotsov's literary criticism exemplifies the linguistic processes in the period between the Two World Wars: the time of accumulation, construction, and creativity, manifesting the tendency to combine the inevitable needs of education with identity politics, striving to establish, enrich and ever codify the academic level of the Bulgarian language.
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The article aims to present the closeness in the poetic perception of the image of death in the poems “Death” and “Diabolical”. It is a “homeˮ for the two lyrical characters, a kind of end of life's knowledge, universality, originality and no alternative. The poetic implication of both texts is in the direction of masculinity and proud loneliness in the realization of death as an “existential phenomenon”.
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The presented article deals with the problem of developing cognitive and metacognitive skills for reading and also for solving learning tasks in Bulgarian language classes. Cognitive skills refer to the learning activities. When working with text, they are related to the student's ability to extract information from text and construct meaning from what is read. Metacognitive skills include the volitional tracing of one's own reading patterns. Cognitive reading skills are systematized in four groups: (1) skills for extracting information from text, (2) skills for interpretation, (3) skills for critical reflection, and (4) skills for working with text presented on a screen. A study of assessment given by teachers of Bulgarian language on the degree of acquisition of cognitive and metacognitive skills by students in lower secondary and upper secondary education in reading text and solving learning problems is presented. Cognitive skills are divided into four groups – for extracting information from text; for interpretation; for critical reflection; and for working with text on a screen. The obtained results demonstrated that teachers rate as more developed the skills for extracting information from text than those for interpretation, critical reflection, and working with text on a screen. There is no real (statistical significant) difference between cognitive and metacognitive skills in assessing the level of skills developed when working with learning tasks.
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The use of translanguaging strategies in written Bulgarian discourse is continually expanding and this expansion ultimately affects the Bulgarian language system in one way or another. The present paper focuses on 42 instances of translanguaging taken from Bulgarian-language lifestyle magazines and online advertisements. On the one hand, the aim is to illustrate the interrelatedness between translanguaging and linguistic creativity and, on the other hand, to identify what economy effects could be achieved by applying translanguaging strategies in written Bulgarian discourse. The collected samples have been classified and described in such a way as to see how the phenomenon of translanguaging has currently affected the Bulgarian language system.
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The purpose of this study is to identify the pieces of biographical information that are most relevant for the study of Russian as a heritage language. It builds on a review of questionnaires for studying linguistic biographies that are currently used in articles and methodological materials by different researchers. We perform a critical analysis and comparison of these questionnaires, which aims at a more systematic and condensed approach to the gathering of relevant sociolinguistic data. This comparison showed that the most relevant types of biographical information are the following: (a) general biographical information, including data on the acquisition and proficiency in the languages of the participants, (b) information on language use in different communicative domains by the informant, (c) data on the attitudes of the informant towards the heritage language, and the language of the country of residence, (d) data on the informant's self-assessment of proficiency in the heritage language in general and mastery of basic skills. The research results can be useful not only for studying heritage languages, but also with a little refinement to studies on second and third language acquisition.
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In the present experimental study second-year students majoring in “Agricultural Engineering” and “Electrical engineering” revise for the Unified Entrance Exam to join the Master course. Both groups learn vocabulary through the online vocabulary learning platform Quizlet. In contrast, to control group the experimental group entered not isolated words, but words in chunks according to the lexical approach. To compare students’ progress in vocabulary acquisition the Student’s t-test was used. The results show that the first hypothesis should be taken into consideration: there is a significant difference in the average indicators in the groups. Learning words in chunks had a significant effect on the test scores and, consequently, increases the chances to pass the Unified Entrance Exam and do postgraduate studies.
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In instructional settings, the term gamification refers to the use of game-based elements to increase learner motivation and involvement. This study aimed to get insight into how adult learners of English perceive gamified activities incorporated into their English language course, and whether player types as defined by Bartle (1996) - explorers, achievers, socializers, and killers – affect student attitudes to specific gamification elements (rules, time limit, challenges, leaderboard, awards, bonuses, and badges). The results showed a high level of student support (97%) for gamified language instruction. A significant difference was observed between player types regarding their attitudes to certain gamification elements and player types. Challenges were highly rated by the explorers (p = 0.006); leaderboards by the killers (p = 0.049), and time limit by the achievers (p = 0.009). The conclusion is that player types and preferences should be surveyed and considered when designing gamified learning activities.
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Reviews: Petru Caraman şi lucrarea vieţii lui. Conceptul frumuseţii umane reflectat în antroponimie la români şi în sud-estul Europei. Prolegomene la studiul numelui personal, ediţie îngrijită, indice şi bibliografie de Silvia Ciubotaru, introducere de Ion H. Ciubotaru, Ed. Universităţii „Al.I. Cuza”, Iaşi, 2011, 769 p. (Livia Cotorcea); Scurtă istorie a Slovaciei. Elena Mannová, coordonator. Traducere din limba slovacă şi indice de Eva Mârza, Radu Mârza. Editura Enciclopedică, 2011, ISBN, 978-973-45-0627-9, 476 p. (Dagmar Maria Anoca); Minorităţi în zonele de contact interetnic. Cehii şi slovacii în România şi Ungaria. Editori: Jakab Albert Zsolt-Peti Lehel. Editura Institutului pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităţilor Naţionale. Kriterion. Cluj-Napoca, 2010. ISBN 978-606-92512-2-5; ISBN 978- 973-26-1011-4, 288 p. (Dagmar Maria Anoca); Translatologické reflexie. Umelecký preklad z/ do románskych jazykov [Reflecţii translatologice. Tălmăcire artistică din/ în limbi romanice]. Katedra romanistiky Filozoficekj fakulty UK v Bratislave. Zostavili PhDr. Jana Páleníková, CSc., doc. PhDr.Paulína Šišmišová, CSc., Vydavateľstvo AnaPress Bratislava, 2010.308 p. (Dagmar Maria Anoca); Antoaneta Olteanu, Rusia imperială. O istorie culturală a secolului al XlX-lea, Editura All, Bucureşti, 2011, 408 pag. (Ecaterina Hlihor).
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Different theoretical backgrounds for the study of literature leads to different objects of investigation. This article is concerned with the distinctions of two types of theoretical backgrounds (semiotic and semantic) and some consequences in the study of a particular field of investigation of literature: fictional texts and fictive worlds. It is commonly considered that fictional texts are non-referential. This consideration fits in the study of literature with a semiotic theoretical background. In a study of literature with a semantic background fits another presupposition: fictional texts are in a particular sense deemed referential. This article is concerned with the contrast of these positions and some implications for investigations of fictive worlds as part of the study of literature.
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In this study, we propose the analysis of a series of biblical quotations in the last Cervantine novel in order to identify the role that these could play in highlighting the meanings of the book and in the narrative strategy of the author.
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