ON THE RECOGNITION AND USE OF SELECTED BIBLICAL IDIOMS BY SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

This paper aims to investigate the degree of competence of young people (high school and university students) regarding the knowledge of semantics and the degree of adequacy of use of three biblical idioms. The idioms chosen for our study are prodigal son, dai...

THE FAILED ROTATION. A METAPHORICAL READING OF THE CRISIS

The article examines the conceptual metaphors, used during the political crisis of early 2024 related to the upcoming rotation in the Denkov-Gabriel government. On the basis of empirical material, excerped from comments by politicians, political scientists and...

LINGUO-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF ADVERTISING – A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BULGARIAN AND SPANISH EXAMPLES

This article examines advertising messages in Spanish and Bulgarian, highlighting their linguistic and cultural characteristics. The comparison is carried out both at the linguistic and stylistic level, as well as at the extralinguistic level, emphasizing the...

CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECT IN THE STUDY OF VERBAL FOLKLORE (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF BULGARIAN AND UKRAINIAN PAREMIA AND FAIRY TALES)

The universality and endemicity of different national cultures, including folklore, which is undoubtedly an important component of the national value system, is determined in the process of projecting different cultures into each other. The use of a cross-cult...

WORD ORDER SPECIFICS OF PREDICATE MODIFIERS IN NEWS HEADLINES

The proposed study illustrates and analyses two contemporary trends in the choice of word order of predicate modifiers in news headlines, focusing on the conditions created for altered reception of the message. The first mechanism consists in placing predicate...

CONTEMPORARY POP FOLK TEXTS – CONCEPTUAL AND PERCEPTUAL INFLUENCES

The problem of the influence of pop folk on young people is extremely topical. Its texts and messages should be known, because they have an indisputable relation to the formation of the moral and aesthetic criteria, values and norms of a huge part of modern so...

THE RETURNING OF THE GHOSTS

This paper focuses on several moments in Emily Bronte’s novel “Wuthering Heights” that consider the window as a threshold space. These are analyzed in relation to the narrative scheme and the breaking of symmetry in the many mirroring pairs (like characters, m...

THE DRESS: NARRATIVE, SYMBOL, BOUNDARY

Abstarct. The study analyzes the tensions between the man and the dress in works written by men in order to trace how their relationships build notions of masculinity. The objects of the study are the novel “Body Under the Dress” by Galin Nikiforov and the sho...

THE COMPETENCE APPROACH TO TRAINING IN A MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT

The article presents an analysis of a part of research on the application of the competence approach in the education, upbringing and socialization of bilingual students. It focuses on the created conditions for the formation of communication skills, as a basi...

EDUCATING EMPATHY THROUGH ART

The proposed article explores the concept of empathy and its application in teaching literature. It begins with a brief overview of the term, focusing on its historical development and its connection to pedagogy. The discussion includes the role of empathy in...

ROUND TABLE “BULGARIAN STUDIES IN HUNGARY TODAY – BETWEEN TRADITION AND THE NEW EXPERIENCE OF THE DIGITALAGE”

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE “EMOTIONS AND INTELLECT: REPRESENTATIONS IN BALKAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES”