Year L, Issue 6, 2023<<Archive>>
Appliеd Linguistics
GRAMMAR AND COGNITION
The article presents the cognitive basis of the differentiation and definition of names in word classes. Cognitively analyzed substantivation, qualification and quantification and their circularity explain grammaticalization as a process. Definiteness as a cat...
cognition; pronouns; names; word groups
OBSERVATIONS ON THE USE OF CLICHÉS IN BULGARIAN AND ROMANIAN PUBLIC SPEECH
The article examines the use of clichéd expressions in the political speech in Bulgaria and Romania. Basic theoretical concepts about the essence of the cliché as semantics and as a structure are analyzed. Linguists’ views on the differences and similarities b...
public speaking; communication and manipulation; desemanticisation; cliché; template
Lаnguаgе Tеаching Меthodology
LINGUISTICS SIMULATIONS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSONS
In this article, the object of interest is the linguodidactological simulations in the process of learning a foreign language. In the context of the leading modern trends in the field of research in private linguodidactology, an attempt is made to outline the...
linguodidactology; linguodidactic simulation; foreign language learning; communicative approach; activity-oriented approach; cross-cultural approach
THE EVIDENCIALITY OF BULGARIAN VERB IN LEARNING BULGARIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
The main goal of the present work is to argue that in the teaching of Bulgarian as a foreign language, not only the indicative and the renarrative, but also the other two indirect evidentials – the conclusive and the dubitative – should be included. This is es...
evidentiality; indicative; renarrative; conclusive; dubitative; learning Bulgarian as a foreign language
SHOULD WE BE VIGILANT WHEN TEACHING WORD FORMATION IN ENGLISH TO BULGARIAN ENGLISH PHILOLOGY STUDENTS?
The research offered here reviews the content of teaching word formation within the bachelor and master’s degree programs at the Department of English and American Studies at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Stock is taken with the basic problems arisi...
word formation; English; Bulgarian; teaching at university level
TRANSLATING LINGUISTIC THEORIES INTO PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR ESP MATERIALS DESIGN: FROM DISCOURSE ANALYSIS TO TEACHING POLITICAL DISCOURSE
Linguistics plays a key role in foreign language education both in relation to the teaching/learning process and to materials development. As a point of departure the article examines the implications of linguistic paradigms for foreign language teaching metho...
ESP materials design; discourse analysis; political discourse