Year LI, Issue 2, 2024<<Archive>>
Appliеd Linguistics
ON THE ARABIC CONCEPT OF HOURIES (ḥūr ʻīn) AND ITS REPRESENTATIONS IN THE LITERATURE OF THE BULGARIAN NATIONAL REVIVAL
The present study draws on texts from the classical Muslim exegetical tradition discussing the houries (ḥūr ʻīn) – one of the eschatologically central, but insufficiently defined Qur’ānic concepts referring to key notions of the heavenly virgins. Unlike other...
Islam; houries; Bulgarian Revival literature; Sofroniy Vrachanski; Georgi S. Rakovski; Hristo Botev
ON EMOTIONAL STATES AND THEIR SYNTACTIC REPRESENTATION
The study focuses on the analyses of syntactic structure of some predicates and state predicatives denoting positive emotion: veselya (to make someone happy, in a good moon), veselya se (to frolic, to party), vessel sam (to be happy), veselo (mi) e (to be in a...
positive emotions, emotives, argument structure, experiencer, Bulgarian
Lаnguаgе Tеаching Меthodology
TECHNIQUES OF SHORTENING IN MARITIME ENGLISH
This study aims to offer a classification of shortened terms and terminological phrases in Maritime English using the lexico-semantic method. It is based on examples excerpted from learning materials designed for cadets and students of Navigation at Varna Nava...
shortening; classification; clipping; blending; abbreviation
EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF AUDIOBOOKS TO BUILD KEY COMPETENCES IN ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING
The article aims to examine audiobooks as an innovative pedagogical tool for building key competencies in English foreign language teaching and learning, namely multilingual, digital, intercultural, personal, social and learning competence. Along with this, an...
audiobooks; key competences; competence-based approach; foreign language teaching and learning; English language
Lаnguаgе аnd Culturе
CHINESE MYTHOLOGY AND TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING
The article analyzes the representation of Chinese mythology in the movie “Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings” and the movie as liguodidactic tool for learning Chinese language and culture. It studies the potential of lessons based on transmedia storytellin...
Chinese mythology; transmedia storytelling; movie-based learning.
BETWEEN HOMER AND CHATGPT (IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AN UNPRECEDENTED PHENOMENON TO SPEECH)
The article aims to trace the impact that artificial intelligence has on the contemporary communication paradigm. The relationship between the “large language models” (LLM) and the speech, its sense and the current speech situation is investigated. Elucidation...
artificial intelligence; an unprecedented phenomenon; speech; speech situation; sense