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The study examines the problems of rhythm as a non-linguistic and linguistic phenomenon, as well as the similarities and differences between rhythmic organization in poetry and in speech, the number and nature of rhythmic units, the classification of languages according to their rhythmic organization, and the role of various prosodic features in the rhythmization of speech. Moreover, special attention is paid to the nature of rhythm in relation to its participation in the temporal organization of speech and to the specificity of the rhythmic systém of the Bulgarian language. For this purpose, the theoretical propositions on the physiological, perceptual and linguistic conditioning of speech rhythm in relation to speech production and speech perception are presented in detail. At the end of the article on the basis of experimental data from a number of studies that have examined the rhythmic organization of Bulgarian spoken prose (colloquial language), both literary and dialectal, a number of important conclusions are made for the Bulgarian language on the discussed issues.
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When Omeljan Ohonovs’kyj’s Grammar of the Ruthenian Language was published in 1889 it was the most comprehensive grammar of the “Ruthenian”, i.e., Ukrainian language. Ohonovs’kyj, as the second professor of the “Ruthenian” language and “Ruthenian” literature, was undoubtedly one of the leading experts on the Ukrainian language of his times. The most significant shortcomings of his grammar, which was used at schools and to ultimately serve as a standardizing tool, were soon criticized by Roman Smal’-Stoc’kyj and Theodor Gartner, who were about to set new standards in 1893, in their highly influential Ruthenian Grammar.
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This article traces the use of the future particle i/j ‘shall, will’ in Bulgarian dialects spoken in the region of the Sredna Gora to Middle Northern Bulgaria, in South-Eastern Bulgaria, and in Bessarabia. The authors argue that this phenomenon is one of the characteristic features of the socalled Chijshij Bulgarian dialects in Bessarabia and that, in them, it is inherited from the dialects in the region of Sredna Gora which is the land of origin of the above-mentioned Bulgarian dialects in Bessarabia.
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This article discusses future tense particles in a Bulgarian dialect spoken in European Turkey (in the villages around the towns of Uzunköprü and Babaeski). The dialect is spoken by Muslim Bulgarians who left Bulgaria at the end of the 19th century or later. Most of them originate from Middle Northern Bulgaria but some of them have come to this place from Northern Greece and have mixed with the others. There is a variety of future tense particles in the dialect under consideration: ša, sa, za, ža ‘shall, will’. The authors show examples of the use of the above mentioned particles and draw conclusions about their origin in the dialect analyzed.
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This article is dedicated to characteristics of Bulgarian dialectal speech used by minority groups in Bulgaria. In their speech, the author finds dialectal elements that are now rarely used by Bulgarian native speakers.
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The article is interpreting the problem about the way of self-distinction of the Bulgarian minority in the area Sredska Jupa, located on the territory of Kosovo Republic. It is well preserved due to the mountain terrain and the natural isolation of the region and its origin leads back to the years of pros-perity of the First and the Second Bulgarian kingdom. The interest, which the language of the people from the region inflicts, is due to not only the compilation of archaic signs with modern tendencies in the development of the Bulgarian language, but with the possibility that through its research to be outlined the western border of the Bulgarian linguistic area too. The research is based fully on new linguistic material, collected on place during seven years while conducting courses of Bulgarian language, History and Literature for the candidate students from the area.
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The article considers the variability of computer terms in Russian and Bulgarian. The variability of terminodits is considered in a broad sense. The corpus of the study was the ordinary user`s terms from the sphere information technology (hereinafter IT). Within the framework of this terminology, all types of variability are recorded: formal, lexico-semantic and functional-stylistic. In the framework of the study, the main reason for variability was identified, namely: the borrowed nature of the terminology system in Russian and Bulgarian, the intensification of intercultural communication in the professional sphere, the desire to economize language / speech resources.
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The article looks into different representations of the strategy of confrontation and aggression in online forum commentaries, viewed by the author as belonging to the genre of naive political discourse. Attention is drawn to some of the most frequent forms of verbal characterisation, such as invectives, (quasi) euphemisms, verbal modifications of personal names, and language play based on grammatical semantics. The examples are excerpted from the forums of Russian online periodicals.
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Thе study pays attention to some of the most frequently used metaphors in the modern Bulgarian and Russian political discource. Several interesting examples of single word terms and phrase terms, that received their denomination from general language words by metaphor, are examined in the article.
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The article focuses on the linguistic representation of the cognitive categories totality/partiality in the Russian language. Aspects of totality, such as compactness, additivity, integrativity, totality, generalisation, universality, are identified, and their manifestation in the lexical and grammatical semantics in linguistic items in Russian are discussed.
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The paper dwells on the semantic category ‘size-dimension’. It focuses on the specifics of the absolute and relatively linguistic size and in particular, the linguistic interpretation of the size in the light of normative evaluation. The linguistic structures interpret the size of the objects from four different kinds of norms: the norm of kind (the average standard in the representation of the size feature), the situational norm, the norm of proportionality and the norm of expectation. Each one of these kinds has its own linguistic representation. The object of description and analysis in the present paper are the exhibit structures reflecting the size with respect to the situational norm, the norm of proportionality and the norm of expectation in Russian and Bulgarian languages.
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The article analyzes the accumulemas spring, summer, autumn and winter which comprise the concept of seasons. Their constituent general and specific semes in Russian and Bulgarian mentality are outlined by means of cognitive and linguocultural analysis
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In modern science the metaphor is represented as the phenomenon of language, culture and thinking. It`s often regarded with a prism through which one sees the world. Metaphor as a cognitive and linguistic mechanism, by the interaction between two knowledge structures of conceptual domains, is performing linguistic and cultural situation, reflecting changes in the linguistic and cultural situation. Researchers tend to view it as a mental category, due to socio-cultural factor. In this regard, the article examines the manifestation of cultural connotations of the metaphor in Russian and Bulgarian political media discourses. Metaphorical modeling as a way of studying metaphor in cognitive science reveals a number of metaphorical models, which are universal and are present in different linguistic cultures. Cooking metaphor belong to such models. However, it exhibits specificity, and progress in Russian and Bulgarian media discourses. Along the frames and slots of this M-model the greatest interest from the point of view of cultural saturation causes representation in modern media discourse metaphorical slot of the ‘national dishes’. This slot represents traditional Russian cuisine and Bulgarian specialties. It`s one of the more active slots in modern Russian and Bulgarian linguistic and culture situations. Besides that in Bulgarian media discourse increasingly as a sphere-source of recently are used names of European cuisine. The movement in slot implementation is stipulated by to changes in linguistic and cultural situation in Bulgaria and to its integration into the European environment.
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Thе article presents the calumny on the one hand, as a one universal cultural phenomenon, and on the other - as a linguistic phenomenon with Bulgarian, Russian and German vocabulary in the semantic field ‘calumny’ in comparative plan, as well with examples from the Bulgarian, Russian and German phraseology paremiology, literature and media discourse.
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This article examines the concept of "success". Success is an indispensable part of our efforts, aspirations and projects. Although people interpret success individually and achieve it in the specific dimensions of their own activities and experiences, the formulation of the essence of this phenomenon reflects the social attitudes and cultural overlays and, moreover, presents success as an universal value to individuals and society. This article studies the concept of success by analysing the semantics and derivatives of the key token of success in three languages ‒ Bulgarian, Russian and English. It discusses the facts of language verbalisation of both the universal and specific dimensions of success.
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The article investigates the design thesaurus ordinary user in the field of computer and other technologies. Knowledge of this terminology, penetrating into various spheres of human life and of modern society, it becomes obvious need for each person. Need to draw up such a multilingual dictionary pursues research, teaching and methodological and purely pragmatic goals. The article proposes a thematic approach to the organization of the material of the future terminological dictionary.
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