Proglas

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Authors: Nikolina Burneva

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is an early example of currently still ongoing debates on the principles of reflection, the conditional nature of the imaginary world and the relativism of cognitive psychology. This text posits certain narrative archetypes applicable to the discussion of image based thinking, transformations of ideas, objects and simulacra, as well as the open character of the verbal representation of these processes. Based on various visualizations of the plot from the time of the Renaissance to the present day, the paper illustrates the Allegory’s interpretative potential and poses certain questions to the modern world of multimedia products.

48-67

Authors: Severina Plachkova

The aim of the current article is to present the contributions of the Bulgarian researchers to the acknowledgment of the Partenii Pavlovich’s “Autobiography”. The review of the scientific research starts with the work of J. Ivanov. He is the first to discover the meaning of Partenii’s personality in terms of the spiritual and historical development of the southern Slavonic people. The author comments the contribution of P. Dinekov for including Partenii in the list of the Bulgarian writes of the 19th century. Studies of many other researchers are also reviewed, including the study of P. Boyadzhiev. This author created the only existing holistic research of the life and deeds of P. Pavlovich. Also, his work gives the direction of the future interpretations of the Partenii’s character – a person, who suffers and at the same time is a man of action.

86-93

Authors: Vladislav Marinov

This paper offers an account of the various causes for the variety of symbols used in the representation of word-final soft consonants in the Romanian Linguistic Atlas. Comparison is drawn between lexical forms as recorded by members of a Romanian research team in the beginning of the 20th century in the town of Bregovo (Vidin region) and current forms used in the Walachian dialect spoken in the far North-West of Bulgaria.

110-114

Authors: Vladimir Donev

Review: A Valuable Contribution to the Study of the Lestvitsa by St. John of Sinai

119-121

Authors: Velislava Doneva

Review: Signs of Humaneness

125-127

Authors: Mariya Endreva

Review: A Link More to the Bulgarian German Studies

131-134

Authors: Daniela Konstantinova

Review: In the Humanities

140-141

Authors: Editorial Board

Anniversary to Prof. Bora Belivanova, PhD

145-147

Authors: Elena Dimitrova

Anniversary to Prof. Dr. Habil Penka Angelova

150-151

Authors: Anelia Petkova

Anniversary to Prof. Kiril Tsankov, PhD

155-156

Authors: Ludmila Kostova

Recent Event: XI International Interdisciplinary Conference "Borders and Transitions"

159-160

Authors: Editorial Board

Advancement Penka Pehlivanova (Burova)

162-163

Authors: Editorial Board

Advancement Margretta Lyubomirova Grigorova

165-166

Authors: Editorial Board

Advancement Veska Kirilova

169-170

Authors: Editorial Board

For Formatting the Manuscripts Published in Proglas Journal

5-27

Authors: Svetlana Arnaudova

The article analyses problems of constructing of remembrance and memory in the literary text and the specifics of the fictive narrator and autobiographical writing in the prose of Herta Mьller and Catalin Dorian Florescu. Special attention is paid to the different aesthetic strategies in reconstruction of the past and to the theoretical discussion about similarities and differences of the terms “writing in emigration” and “postcolonial narrative”. Texts are interpreted, which reflect the forms of suffering and resistance during Ceausescus’s dictatorship and the painful concussions after 1989 in post socialist Europe.

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Authors: Piotr Borek

The Battle of Chocim (1621) belongs to the greatest battles of the first half of the seventeenth century in Europe. The Polish Army that took part in it consisted of about 55–60 thousand soldiers who fought against 110,000 Turkish warriors. In total, the army of Osman II was twice as numerous as the Polish forces. Descriptions of the Battle of Chocim in diaries and chronicles were composed in a chronological pattern. The authors describe the events day after day, sometimes choosing the most important moments of the campaign. Not all stages of the Chocim campaign were subject to particular interest of chroniclers. Most of them failed to mention the cause of the outbreak of the conflict, going straight to the description of the military campaign. According to an old Polish legend, this campaign was triggered by an apology war. The victory was praised in numerous poetry publications. One of the components of the myth recorded in diaries is particularly twisted since the administration overstated the number of the troops of Osman II. Undoubtedly, the successful defense of the fortress saved Poland from even worse damage than that of the Tartar invasion. There is a lot of written evidence of the historical significance of the 1621 military campaign.

96-122

Authors: Tsenka Ivanova

The high degree of a relationship between the Slavic languages raises the issue about the criteria by which they distinguish between them. Through different mechanisms of combinativeness and a lexicalsemantic distribution of the common vocabulary the common by its origin lexis has formed various Slavic languages. The collocations, or the syntagmatic organization of words, act as a sign of differentiality between the Slavic languages and they contain a number of specific features. In certain situations the characteristics of the collocation are linked with sociolinguistic processes of divergence of literary languages. The contemporary linguistic situation in South Slavic / Balkan Slavic area implement a certain revision of theoretical formulations and orientation to new methodological and applied perspectives.

150-165

Authors: Vanya Angelova

This scientific article uncovers interesting facts, connected not only with the life and the biography of academic Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr, but it also opens questions about the genetics of the caucasian languages (and a part of the Kartvelian languages, to which the Laz language is connected , along with his native language the Georgian language). His scientific researches are bonded with those languages, and his research about the Eastern studies and the Caucaus studies. In this one we are paying attention on the Genetic links among those languages, no metter whether they are fully established or ascertained only partially. Through this research work we were faced with many challenges on its new teaching language> or the so called Japhetc theory>. With the name of Marr, it is connected the enforcement of the so called Marr’s quotes, determining the meaning of the word.

178-185

Authors: Kiril Tsankov

Interview: Prof. Todor Balkanski Along Via Bulgara

186-188

Authors: Svetla Dzhifterova

Review: Hersoy Christmas Carols

198-200

Authors: Liliya Radoslavova

Review: On Empirical Studies of Translating. Gisella M. Vorderobermeier: Translatorische Praktiken aus soziologischer Sicht. Kontextabhängigkeit des übersetzerischen Habitus? Opladen Berlin Toronto: Budrich UniPress, 2013. 437 S. ISBN: 978-3-86388-023-1

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Authors: Editorial Board

Degrees and Titles Awarded to Pavlina Ribarova

223-230

Authors: Dimitar Kenanov

Recent Event: “Turnovo School of Letters” 10th Anniversary International Symposium

233-234

Authors: Editorial Board

In Memoriam Prof. Dr. Margarita Kanazirska (25.08.1941–03.12.2013)

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Authors: Editorial Board

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