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Authors: Iliyana Dimitrova

This study looks at a small fragment of the Bulgarian linguistic picture of the world related to individualism/collectivism in culture. The linguocultural analysis of various sayings and words in the Bulgarian language proves a close relationship between the individual and the group in the Bulgarian linguistic picture of the world. The linguocultural analysis represents and reinforces linguistic evidence which confirms the hypothesis of a rather collectivistic type of culture in Bulgarian society.

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Authors: Vanya Zidarova

The paper discusses the changes in the Bulgarian lexical system after 1990, and more precisely the relationship between оutdated lexical units and contemporary lexical competence. The research includes a questionnaire given to 300 students (born between 2001 and 2003). The respondents had to explain the meanings of 10 words which are not used anymore or have more than one meaning. The results show that the students are not well acquainted with the semantics of most of the historisms and аrchaisms, which implies low lexical competence with regard to the outdated lexical units.

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Authors: Gergana Petkova, Vanya Ivanova

The present paper examines Russian proper nouns of both masculine and feminine gender, which are derived from a Roman praenomen. Our main goal has been to present these proper names in their entirety, together with their etymology. The excerpted onyms are grouped according to the appellative or the anthroponym from which they are derived. Another classification, based on extralinguistic information about the canonization of proper names, is also included: it takes into account its origin, i.e. when a Russian anthroponym is derived from a saint’s name in the Orthodox or the Catholic tradition, or when it is recognized by and exists in the canons of both churches. A brief review of the proper-noun system in Ancient Rome – and the role of Roman praenomens in it – is also provided. Special attention has been paid to the etymology of the praenomens.

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Authors: Elena Ratseeva

The article examines the ethnic interactions of immigrant Bulgarians, which are present in the literary reflection of Bulgarian authors from the diaspora - mostly Misho Hadzhiiski (Tavria), Nikolay Kurtev and Anna Maleshkova (Bessarabia). Сontent analysis of the artistic and the journalistic writing of Bulgarian migrants has enabled us to determine their significant neighbors, the distance between them, as well as some peculiarities of the relations among them. Tavrian and Bessarabian Bulgarians’ implicit or explicit appraisals of “others” are presented too, and their conscious experience of the ethnic contacts in the “empty foreign land” is justified in the article.

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Authors: Amelia Milcheva

In Jean de Joinville’s text Vie de Saint Louis around King Louis IX’s personality several emotional communities are formed. The most important of them unifies the crusaders of the Seventh Crusade in Egypt. The values in that emotional community are related to King Louis IX’s qualities. Some smaller emotional communities are formed around the king including mainly his interlocutors. The dialogs with the king mentioned in the text and Louis IX’s exploits described by Joinville illustrate the qualities as well as the emotions of the king-crusader as a human and a saint. The personality of Louis IX possesses according to Joinville’s text specific emotionality different from the traditional stereotypes.

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Authors: Iveta Rasheva

The Ierosolymitika are paintings with Biblical content, produced between the 17th and the 19th centuries in Jerusalem. The wealthy Bulgarian pilgrims usually bought several Ierosalymitika each. Jesus Christ’s tomb was painted in the center of each Ierosolymitikon. Invariably, there was an icon of the Theotokos to the left of the central image and another one of Jesus Christ to the right. The rest of the space was filled with scenes from the Old and the New Testaments and with icons of Saints. The author of this article discusses an icon of St. Cyril and St. Methodius she was able to find in one such Ierosolymitikon brought to Bulgaria in the 19th century.

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Authors: Gergina Krasteva

Традиция е съставянето на юбилейни научни сборници като проява на почит към значим литературовед, около чиято личност се обединяват хуманитаристите. Тези издания са представителни за актуалния статут на съвременното българско литературознание, а в съдържанието им се включват важни изследователски текстове. Такъв тип сборник е и посветеният на 60-годишнината на проф. Цветан Ракьовски „Литературата: образи и контексти“, изготвен от колегиума по българска литература в ЮЗУ „Неофит Рилски“ – Благоевград. Между кориците на респектиращия и с полиграфическия си дизайн том текстовете са композирани в шест дяла. Всеки от тях е представителен за онези „литературно-теоретични топоси: Яворов, образите на българската памет, литературата и езикът, канона, паратекста, Манделщам“, с които се свързва името на проф. Ракьовски – както обяснява в уводните думи научният редактор А. Вачева.

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Authors: Valentina Sedefcheva

Като продължение на майските празници на Филологическия факултет във Великотърновския университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“ на 27 – 28 юни 2019 г. се проведе международна конференция на тема „Актуални теоретико-методологически проблеми на изучаването и преподаването на славянски езици, литератури и култури II“. Това е втората научна среща на славистичната общност, която е инициирана от Международния комитет на славистите и Комисията за преподаване на славянските езици и литератури. Първото такова събитие беше в рамките на Шестнадесетия международен конгрес на славистите в Белград през 2018 г., а следващото е планирано в Скопие през 2020 г. Целта на тези славистични форуми е да се поставят и търсят пътища за разрешаване на проблемите, пред които се изправя съвременната славистика в областта на различните видове модернизация и дигитализацията на славистичната наука, съпоставителното изследване на взаимните връзки между славянските езици, литератури и култури, стратегиите за оцеляване и развитие на славянските езици и литератури в национална и чуждоезикова академична среда.

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