Year LI, Issue 3, 2024<<Archive>>
Appliеd Linguistics
NECESSITY OF STUDYING SPEECH PATHOLOGY
The article argues for the need to study speech pathology in adults in order to improve communication in the field of health care and to overcome crises in the social and personal contacts of persons with speech disorders. A critical review of the state of res...
pspeech pathoplogy; diagnosis and therapy of aphasias; Bulgarian language research in neurolinguistics
PERCEPTION AND EVALUATION OF TEXT FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH A REAL PERSON AND AN INTERVIEW WITH AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The article presents a study of perception, understanding and evaluation of two interviews, the first one is performed with a real person (from an expert source), and the second is generated by the ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI). The study covers 84 part...
interview; artificiality/realism; artificial intelligence; media literacy; digital literacy
ASPECTUAL FEATURES OF SOME CIRCUMSTANTIAL CLAUSES IN ITALIAN TRANSLATION (BASED ON A CORPUS OF WORKS BY GEORGI GОСПОINOV)
The article takes a cursory look at the translation from Bulgarian to Italian of some types of circumstantial sentences, where a difference in type is observed. The translation of perfective or imperfective constructions is a challenge for both the translator...
verb form; translation; adverb subordinate clauses
Lаnguаgе Tеаching Меthodology
DEVELOPING INTEGRATIVE COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THROUGH VIDEO PROJECT
One of the biggest challenges in the organization of the educational process in English is overcoming the limitations of time and space to develop communicative skills in the target language. This paper introduces vlogging as an instructional strategy and meas...
vlogging; foreign language; integrated communication skills
LANGUAGE LEARNING FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES IN HIGHER EDUCATION – EXPERIENCES AND TRENDS
In today‘s “global village”, any kind of information spreads faster than ever before and reaches every corner of the world. Scientific information is no exception in this regard. Therefore, the need to learn a foreign language for specific purposes to serve as...
language learning for specific purposes; teaching languages in higher education; professional development; vocational education
THE ACQUISITION OF SLAVIC AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AS A CONDITION FOR SUCCESSFUL INTEGRATION OF REFUGEES (ON THE SITUATION OF UKRAINIAN MEDICS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC)
Abstarct. The aim of this paper is to present the problems of second language acquisition (Slavic by Slavs) in a specific socio-political context. The text deals with the situation of Ukrainian refugees, medics who need to master Czech in order to take a profe...
second language acquisition; Slavonic languages; Ukrainian refugees
Lаnguаgе аnd Culturе
THE DISCOURSE ON ETHICAL VEGANISM AS A MODEL FOR IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
The text explores the ethical components of identity formation in the modern era through popular food practices. The focus of interest is veganism as a model of identity based on (the claim to) an ethical stance towards others and the world. The ways in which...
ethical consumption; lifestyle; veganism; cultural studies; social media
MANIPUALTIVE USE OF METAPHORS IN ECONOMIC MEDIA ARTICLES
As the theory of cognitive linguistics claims, metaphors shape not just our communication, but also the way we think and act in our everyday life. On the other hand, economic theory is based on the use of metaphors and figurative thinking. The aim of this arti...
media discourse; metaphors; economics; recession; inflation