DIALECT WORDS FOR SPRING MONTHS IN THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE

The article is dedicated to an understudied issue in Bulgarian dialectology, namely the names of the months in different Bulgarian dialects. Some specific names of the spring months of March, April and May are examined, tracing the specific marks and processes...

FULL AND SHORT FORMS OF ADJECTIVES IN RUSSIAN AND THEIR CORRESPONDENCES IN BULGARIAN

In Russian, unlike in Bulgarian, two forms of adjectives have been preserved – full and short, where the short form in the modern language can be used only in the predicative position. The proposed article on the basis of a parallel Russian-Bulgarian corpus ex...

(UN)GENERALIZED HUMOR: THE TEXTBOOK VS. THE SURVEY

Provoked by the one-sided placement of humorous texts in the space of Russian language textbooks for secondary school, the report focuses on the fuller disclosure of the linguo-didactic potential of these texts. For this purpose, part of the results of a large...

SOCIOLINGUISTIC CREDO OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHER: THE CASE OF DIGITAL CLASSROOM

The last two years saw a dramatic increase in the use of digital classrooms due to the new pandemic realities. Internet platforms and social networks offer teachers many options for interacting with their students and colleagues. Online communication differs f...

IDEA, IDEAL, IDEOLOGY Messy Thoughts on Culture from the Second Half of the Twentieth Century to Today

The author discusses the emergence and meaning of ideas as a goal and destination of any empirical quantity, and as bearers of ontological completeness. The theses of various philosophers who have considered the idea as a concept are shown. A transition is mad...

THE AUTHOR FOR HIMSELF. LITERARY SELF-PORTRAITS

The article puts the spotlight on those specific genres in which the author returns to the process of writing of his works, creating a kind of “bioliterature”. Seemingly seeking for the biographical projections of creativity, in fact the author turns the writi...

A FEW TOUCHES FROM THE LINGUISTIC UNIVERSE OF ROMAN JAKOBSON

The article examines the breakdown of Roman Jakobson on the autonomy of linguistics and its relations with the other human sciences. Yakobson picks up and develops Sapir’s idea that the modern linguist cannot confine himself to his traditional field. He interp...

12TH INTERNATIONALAUTUMN SCIENTIFICEDUCATIONAL FORUM “MODERN EDUCATION AND TEACHER QUALIFICATION-TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS”

In the Department for Information and In-Service Training of Teachers at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” is established long-standing tradition in holding the autumn international scientific and educational forum. The participants in the forum are main...

LEGAL TERMINOLOGY – SOME TERMS EQUIVALENCE ISSUES