Proglas

7-15

Authors: Rossen Milanov

The turbulent – in a historical sense – era of ІV–V cc. was at the same time the Golden Age of Christian literature. The issue of the Roman Empire, which was the homeland of most of the Church authors at that time, is discussed in the Latin Christian literary works of this period. What was the attitude of the Christian writers towards the political entities, which called themselves „homelands“? What kind of travels did the Christians during ІV–V cc. undertake, what were the reasons for them and what was their purpose? And finally, what did the Christians actually strive for in their journeys and in their lifetime as a whole? The following paper aims to answer these questions.

23-31

Authors: Magdalena Vassileva

The so-called cultural stereotypes are often discussed in the spheres of intercultural communication and foreign language education no matter what the target language is. It is also a theme that is dealt with in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR, 2001) along with topics such as intercultural competence. The following paper attempts to define the term “stereotype” which will help us find out what the role of cultural stereotypes in Japanese language education at Veliko Tarnovo University is. The aim of the research is to reveal the image of the Japanese from the point of view of: 1) Bulgarian media and 2) Bulgarian students of Japanese language at Veliko Tarnovo University (VTU). In 2) we will discuss whether this image changes after a visit of Japanese students to VTU.

40-47

Authors: Matjaz Birk

Die Stimmen von Marrakesch (1967) is one of the characteristic texts produced by Bulgarian-born Austrian writer and Nobel prize winner Elias Canetti. On the one hand, his Aufzeichnungen nach einer Reise (A Record of a Visit) lays the foundations of the aphoristic style of his multi-volume “records”, and, on the other hand, is imbedded in the European tradition of travel writing as a genre dedicated to memoir culture. The paper traces the rhetoric of memory as a narrative principle, unifying the impressions of the traveller as a by-standing observer of the real journey, his reflections on the stories further developed in his imagination and his rhetorical devices for the articulation of universal human ideas.

59-68

Authors: Margreta Grigorova

The paper presents maritime writer Georgi Ingilizov’s (1955–2018) concepts, ideas and initiatives (editorial activity, filmography) related to the status of Bulgarian maritime fiction and its place in Bulgarian literature. The paper also traces the maritime writer’s creative path and addresses the main aspects of his maritime prose related to sailors’ values and problems. The text corresponds to an interview with the author, published in this issue.

83-90

Authors: Maya Vlahova-Angelova

The naming of places according to local vegetation is a universal way of creating toponyms, a considerable part of which is derived from common names of localities, denoting ‘a place where a particular plant (fruit) grows’. Studying such toponyms can enrich the current locality-labelling data with new, hitherto unknown ones, as well as complete the pattern of the folk taxonomy of fruit. Nomina loci, as a separate word formation category, is well studied in both literary Bulgarian and its dialects. The present study aims to reconstruct the common names of localities, motivated by names of fruit, which have been preserved in Northern Bulgaria toponymy. There is a list of locality names derived from different kinds of toponyms. Some of these names expand the currently known ‘nomina loci’ word formation categories by providing new names. The analyses also show that the toponymy has preserved a fair number of archaic lexemes, formed through rare and antiquated suffixes with a locative function, which have not been registered in earlier research of locality names.

96-99

Authors: Margreta Grigorova

Interview: Georgi Ingilizov in His Last Interview with Margreta Grigorova

102-102

Authors: Amelia Licheva

A New, Convincing Voice – VTU Review: Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences

107-109

Authors: Todor Mollov

Review: The East-West Dialogue and Structuralism (on Violeta Ruseva, 6 studii po istoricheska poetika…)

113-113

Authors: Dimitar Mihailov

Recent Event: “The 140th Anniversary of P. K. Yavorov’s Birth” National Scholarly Conference

115-116

Authors: Tsenka Ivanova

Recent Event: “Languages, Cultures, Communications” Annual Conference of the Faculty of Modern Languages, “St. Cyril and St. Methodius” University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

117-117

Authors: Polina Tsoncheva

Recent Event: “The Magic of the Celestial Empire”. Chinese Culture Week, 2018

120-121

Authors: Editorial Board

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