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The article summarises the image of Bulgaria and Bulgarians among university students in Lublin, Poland. Research material is gathered through surveys held in 2012 and containing questions about Bulgaria’s geography, history and national symbols as well as personal notions. Results reveal a stable image of the country and its inhabitants due to strong stereotypes from the communist era and the last...
The article is dedicated to the phenomenon of interlingual homonyms and paronyms in Russian and Bulgarian languages. It is based on the concept that homonyms and paronyms are rightly labelled as false friends of the translator, thus emphasizing the practical importance of this popular term. The author explains the origin of false friends of the translator and limitations of their formation in Bulgarian...
From the early 80’s of the XX century, many works of distinguished Bulgarian poet Zdravko Kissiov reveal the concept of maximal reduction of linguistic means of expression. The briefness, clarity and asceticism of his short lyrical forms stylistically associate them with sententiae. These tendencies lead to the conclusion that Kissiov’s poetic works introduced some aspects of protominimalism in contemporary...
The paper analyses the hymn to the brother saints Cyril and Methodius, written in 1892 as a proposed general anthem of Bulgarian schools. In contrast to popular views, this poetry work glorifies the creators of Slavic literature utilizing both religious and secular contexts in order to depict their role as national patrons and architects of the Bulgarian identity based on the continuation of a unique...
The paper analyses the Bulgarian understanding of honour in its historical perspective. It depicts the meaning of the concept in different periods of Bulgarian social development. Semantic transformations of honour are documented on the basis of various sources, including oldest written documents from the First and Second Bulgarian Empire, folklore, old lexicographical sources, archives etc. The conducted...
The article examines strategies in promoting national cuisine by Bulgarian restaurants abroad. It is based on the author’s BA thesis defended in 2012 at the Marie Curie University in Lublin, Poland and concentrates on information about Bulgaria and its traditional cuisine, available on restaurant websites. Collected data reveals a relative lack of popularity of Bulgarian cookery in comparison to other...
Colours are often used for secondary nomination of concepts of human values. This paper refers to the results of our research on the semantics of red colour in Modern Greek, Russian and Bulgarian languages. The coloronyms are seen as a tool of interpretation and evaluation of a person and his place in the world. The main interest is focused on the axiological options of red colour and its synonyms,...
The article presents and analyses postnominal Polish surnames of Christian origins of Drohobych residents in the late XVIII – early XIX century in relation to their etymology and adaptive peculiarities of their bound stem. It tries to identify origins of derivational morphemes. The sources of the collected 7750 Polish surnames are the handwritten parish registers of Drohobych Roman Catholic Church...
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