Year LXVII, Issue 3, 2025<<Archive>>
Litеrаturе
ROLES AND LANGUAGES IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN ART STUDIES
The article aims to outline in general terms the possibilities for correlation between roles and languages used in the contemporary Bulgarian art historical practice. The study focuses its search on the last decade and observes how the roles are gradually narr...
contemporary art studies; art theory; art history; art criticism; affirmative criticism
THE LANGUAGE OF THE END AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD. THE APOCALYPTIC WRITING OF BLAGA DIMITROVA
The article is dedicated to the pessimistic turn in Blaga Dimitrova’s prose, which comes into conflict with the propagandistic utilitarianism and the utopian telos of the era. The most general characteristics of the writer’s “apocalyptic writing” are outlined...
totalitarianism; atomization; prose of inversion; techno-nature; counter-spectacle; world-creation
PATHS TO THE OTHER‘S WORLD. TRANSLATED BOOKS AT HRISTO G. DANOV PUBLISHING HOUSE IN THE FIRST DECADE OF ITS ACTIVITY (1960 – 1970)
The present paper aims to trace the development of the Plovdivian socialist publishing house “Hristo G. Danov” in the first decade after its establishment. This publication delineates the proportion between translated and Bulgarian literature, as well as betwe...
translated fiction; publishing house Hristo G. Danov; publishing strategy
Linguistics
THE CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN LANGUAGE POLICY – BETWEEN SOCIETAL CRISES AND THE DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE PROCESSES (HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ASPECTS)
The article provides an overview of language policy during the socialist period in Bulgaria, on the one hand, and on the other hand, examines the elements of contemporary language policy as a complex result of the interaction between language speakers, institu...
Bulgarian language; language policy; linguistic processes
THE SEMIOTIC ESSENCE OF SIGN LANGUAGE
The present article is part of a larger study related to the current and interesting topic of the sign nature of sign languages and in particular the Bulgarian sign language. The main aspects of the study are to outline the sign rebirth of sign languages and t...
communication; sign language; semiotics; types of signs
PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL LANGUAGE
The paper traces the characteristics of modern medical language and motivates why it can be thought of as a kind of jargon that is often understandable only to those who know it. Examples are given of its typical features that can make it enigmatic for patient...
medical language; patient; dialogue; misunderstanding
THE ONTOLOGICAL STATUS OF THE CURSE AND THE WAR IN UKRAINE
The purpose of the article is to clarify the ontological status of cursing in Ukrainian hate speech. There is a ruining etiquette standard, a neglect of many ritualized communicative forms aimed at the opponent’s face-saving in a problematic interaction, as we...
curse; hate speech; Russian-Ukrainian war; media and political technology