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Authors: Zahari Mishev

The article gives a brief overview of some facts related to the personality and work of Dionysius the Divine. It summarizes the information about the Margarit collections of homilies by John Chrysostom, which have become famous in the Slavic manuscript tradition, and lays an emphasis on the most common corpus of 30 homilies preserved in Bulgarian, Serbian and Russian transcripts. It also provides a brief description of the subject matter and ideological orientation of the individual homilies and outlines some characteristic features of the writer‘s idiolect, related to the transmission of the original Greek text – mainly on a morphological, lexical and syntactic levels. The article also focuses on the various opinions of scholars as to whether the Dionysius mentioned in the postscript to the manuscript № 3/8 from the Library of NMRM; manuscript № 45, National Library of Serbia, Plevlja; manuscript. Slav. № 155, Library of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, is identical with the writer Dionysius from The Life of Theodosius Tarnovski by Patriarch Callistus. Some of the opinions cited in the article are opposing as to whether Margarit‘s translator Dionysius Divni is identical with Dionysius – the student of Theodosius Tarnovski. The purpose of the study is not to support one or the other opinion, but to examine individual elements of the writer‘s characteristic translation technique.

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Authors: Vanya Ivanova

The article examines the nominative and the characterizing functions of metaphors in the innovation process at the lexical and the semantic levels of the Russian language at the beginning of the 21st century. It also discusses the manifestation of the metaphorical function in the emergence of semantic innovations on the basis of metaphorization, as well as in the integration of foreign language semantic elements with metaphorical grounds. The simultaneous manifestation of these two functions in the nomination and characterization of the newly-emerged realia at the beginning of the 21st century is traced as well. The function of metaphorical nomination is also considered in connection with the spheres of dissemination of semantic innovations.

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Authors: Dimitar Krastev

The paper discusses the development of the humanities during the twentieth century in relation to the methodological and epistemological changes in the scholarly field. Particular attention has been paid to the so-called Cultural Turns phenomenon, and more specifically to The Linguistic Turn.

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Authors: Irena Dimova

This article aims to bring together the critical voices that have accumulated around the work and the figure of the Slovak author Ján Ondruš. The study focuses on the disputes that have arisen among researchers. The confrontational approaches can be grouped around several issues that emerge from the texts of the Slovak poet. These issues are as follows: rewriting his own literary texts, his “schizoid” and “schizophrenic” conditions in light of which critics write about him, and “the fragmentation” of the lyrical subject in his texts. The article aims to summarize the main problems of writing about the author and his poetry and thus facilitate their potential literary-critical solution.

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Authors: Radomira Videva

The article presents LanguageCert USAL esPro as a suite of tests that has been developed recently with the aim of evaluating the language skills of non-native speakers who need to use Spanish for professional purposes. The author begins by attempting to examine the existing practice in the assessment of Spanish for specific purposes and then provides a detailed description and an analysis of the exam content and format. The article also highlights the test’s usefulness which results from its reliability, construct validity, authenticity, interactivity, impact and practicality; it does not neglect to mention the adaptive nature, flexibility and transparency of this exam as some of its essential characteristics.

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Authors: Sonya Aleksandrova

The image of a century (On Kleo Protohristova. Literaturniyat dvayseti vek. Sinhronni srezove i diahronni proektsii…)

115-117

Authors: Andreana Eftimova

Review: The world of Bulgarians in the language mirror (On Maria Ilieva. Balgarinat v svoya ezikov svyat (Lingvokulturologichno i etnopsiholingvistichno izsledvane)…)

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Authors: Kalina Shtereva

Review: Figures of the transnational in the contemporary German literature (On Figuren des Transnationalen…)

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Authors: Nikolina Burneva

(On Manova, Dariya. “Sterbende Kohle“ und „flüssiges Gold”. Rohstoffnarrative der Zwischenkriegszeit…)

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Authors: Iliyana Dimitrova

Recent events: 12th International conference “Issues in Oral Communication” (V. Tarnovo, 6. – 7.11.2020)

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Authors: Editorial

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