THE OLD ARMENIAN ROOT “BULH” AND THE BULGARS IN THE ARMENIAN GEOGRAPHY “ASHKHARATSUYTS” (7TH CENTURY AD)

In 2003, based on the hypothesis that “Bulgars” was originally a religious name, I proposed a new etymology of their name – from two Indo-European word stems *b[h]olk’-„to shine, to blaze“ and b[h]org[h]- „high, mountain, hill“, which thousands of years ago we...

COGNITIVE-COMMUNICATIVE ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE FUNCTIONING IN OLDER ADULTS: BULGARIAN APPLICATION OF THE SCCAN

Objective: This study evaluates the clinical applicability of the adapted Bulgarian Scales of Cognitive and Communicative Ability for Neurorehabilitation (SCCAN) for differentiating cognitively healthy older adults from patients with Alzheimer‘s disease (AD)....

SYNCRETISM AND MODALITY

The focus of the technology of the sentence as a product of our consciousness is syncretism. This syncretism obliges all components, all signs to be perceived and taken into account in their complex interrelation, and not in linearity. The synthesis between th...

MARITIME ENGLISH FINAL ASSESSMENT OF FUTURE DECK OFFICERS AT THE NIKOLA VAPTSAROV NAVAL ACADEMY, BULGARIA

The present paper aims to contribute to the process towards global standardization of Maritime English (ME) testing and assessment that has been in progress for many years. It focuses on the format of the current final state exam for future deck officers gradu...

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SPATIALITY IN RUSSIAN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF LINGUODIDACTOLOGY

Based on data of parallel texts of the national corpus of the Russian language and lexicographic dictionaries, spatiality is considered as one of the conceptual dominants of the modern Russian language, which should be taken into account when teaching the lang...

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SECONDARY AND HIGHER EDUCATION AS A PROBLEM OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN BULGARIA

This article examines the problems of foreign language teaching in secondary and higher education through the prism of the relationship between the two systems in Bulgaria. As it refers to secondary education, the article considers the difficulties that teache...

LEGAL VALUES AS A CULTURE-SPECIFIC FRAMEWORK IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING OF LAW STUDENTS

This study proposes a pedagogical model for developing intercultural communicative competence and legal values through a university ESP course in legal English. The model responds to the growing need for language education that transcends linguistic proficienc...

„IMPATIENT WOMEN“ OR THE FUTURE OF THE VALUES / VALUES OF THE FUTURE

The article focuses on the book by Cameroonian writer Djaili Amadou Amal, Impatient Women, in which the author addresses the painful issue of women’s rights in certain societies, as well as in modern civilization, which sometimes disregards the double standard...

THE LANGUAGE OF PHOTOGRAPHY CONSERVATION: CULTURAL HERITAGE AND METHODOLOGY

The article examines the restoration of photographs as a specific “language” in which scientific, ethical, and cultural dimensions intersect. The focus is placed on the characteristics of photographic techniques and their vulnerabilities, as well as on preserv...

REVIVALIST WRITERS ON THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE: IVAN VAZOV ON FOREIGN WORDS, CASES, DEFINITE ARTICLES, AND ORTHOGRAPHY

This article examines Ivan Vazov’s views on the development of Bulgarian orthography, the influence of foreign words on the language, the use of definite articles, and the loss of grammatical cases. Although Vazov is one of the most thoroughly analyzed Bulgari...

METANARRATIVE TECHNIQUES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NOVEL “THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES” BY ROBERT MUSIL

THE FILM “TAKE ME HOME” IN THE CONTEXT OF CHILDREN’S CINEMA IN BULGARIA