Year LXIII, Issue 4, 2021<<Archive>>
Linguistics
REFLEXIVE-DATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS WITH OPTATIVE MEANING IN BULGARIAN
This article analyzes and compares two types of Bulgarian reflexivedative constructions with optative meaning: bi-clausal (Иска ми се да танцувам ‘I wish to dance’) and monoclausal (Танцува ми се ‘I feel like dancing’). It presents the structural and semantic...
reflexive-dative constructions; optative meaning; Bulgarian
PARTICIPIAL AND/OR VERBAL MORPHEMES
This study deals with an issue that is significant in view of the buildup of word morphological structure, something frequently neglected by investigators, viz., morphemes encoding specific grammatical meanings of Bulgarian participles, which indicate in a spe...
participial morphemes; verb morphemes; affix; suffix; quasi-suffixes
Litеrаturе
THE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE OF P. VEZHINOV’S NOVELLA “THE BARRIER”
This article attempts to analyze P. Vezhinov’s literary work in the context of the possible binary interpretation of its narrative: realistic and fantastical. It researches the ways the raw material of the story is transformed into the plot such as external co...
external composition; focalization; modal-temporal narrative organization; literary space; rite de passage.
THE BOOK OF POETRY HYSTERICAL FANS AND ITS PREFACE BY THEODOR CHAKARMOV
The most famous book of poetry by the Yambol poet Teodor Draganov, Hysterical Fans (Истерични веери), deserves to be the subject of wider scholarly interest. This article aims to show the functional and pragmatic characteristics of its preface, written by the...
preface; Hysterical Fans; expressionism; avant-garde
Меthodology
FOLKLORE IN THE CONTEXT OF LITERATURE CURRICULA (ALIGNED WITH THE CURRENT LITERATURE CURRICULUM FOR THE 5TH GRADE)
The article aims to present basic theoretical problems connected with studying folklore in the secondary stage of Bulgarian schools. The first part offers a brief diachronic review of the theoretical paradigm of Bulgarian folklore research, presenting the tran...
curriculum; literature; folklore; study(ing)
TEACHING THE MANIFESTO
In this article, we look at the genre of the manifesto and its possible uses in high school. First, we point out some basic characteristics of this type of text and link them to the idea of a “form of rebellion”. Second, we make a connection between teaching l...
manifesto; literary context; school; revolt; Geo Milev
PHILOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE CHOICE OF MAJOR AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
The article presents the results of a questionnaire survey conducted in high schools in some Western and Southwestern Bulgarian towns. The survey includes questions related to the motivation for learning, the students' interest in the subjects studied at schoo...
survey; Bulgarian language and literature; Bulgarian philology; motivation for learning