STATE PREDICATES AND PHASE DERIVATION: BULGARIAN-RUSSIAN PARALLELS

The paper presents a contrastive analysis of the possibilities of forming inchoative verbs from state predicates in Bulgarian and Russian. The derivational patterns under consideration are much more productive in Bulgarian, but the aspectual properties of pred...

PITCH CONTOURS OF THE RUSSIAN POLAR QUESTION BY BULGARIAN SPEAKERS OF RUSSIAN

The prosody of the Russian language is the most difficult aspect even for Bulgarian university graduates in Russian language studies. The aim of this paper is to determine the pitch contours Bulgarian students use when asking yes-no questions in Russian. The m...

WERBUNG IM WIRTSCHAFTSDEUTSCH-UNTERRICHT

Werbung im Wirtschaftsdeutsch-Unterricht eröffnet große Chancen für einen attraktiven und zugleich pragmatischen Zugang zu einer Fremdsprache. Wegen ihrer interdisziplinären Besonderheit ist sie ein ideales Format zur Vertiefung der sprachlichen und kommunikat...

DERIVATION FIELD OF THE LEXEME “WIND”

Absract. This paper outlines the most productive ways of word formation in the English language, focusing on the derivational field of the lexeme “wind”. Derivaties are also clustered according to different thematic groups, connotative meanings, American Engli...

IS THERE A PLACE FOR MUSIC IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING?

The results of a survey conducted in 2022 with teachers and foreign language university lecturers are presented and analyzed in the article. The opinion of the respondents regarding the use of musical activities in foreign language learning is taken, and their...

FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING – PURPOSE OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND INSTRUMENTS IN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

The article presents a study concerning the development and testing of innovative educational approaches for developing language competences of engineering students. The study was carried out among 1st and 2nd year students of the specialty „Technical Mechanic...

THE BLACK MONK OF EMILIAN STANEV AND HIS GOTHIC BRETHREN

Emiliyan Stanev’s unfinished short novel The Black Monk still remains on the margins of his oeuvre, and also of research interest on the part of Bulgarian literary studies. On the other hand, the plot and the eponymous character fit it into a wide network of w...

“ANDRÉ MALRAUX – WRITER AND STRUGGLING INTELLECTUAL” – A CELEBRATION OF THE SPIRIT

ON SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH OF PUBLIC INSCRIPTIONS IN THE URBAN LANDSCSAPE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF MULTILINGUALISM AND LINGUODIDACTOLOGY