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Author’s neologisms (so-called occasionalisms) are characteristic phenomena of the contemporary Bulgarian press. They are present in all components of the publishing text. Their purpose is to bring attractiveness in speech, voice the author’s point of view in an expressive way, characterize the referent and attract the attention of the reader. Author’s neologisms are manifestations of...
The article depicts reflection over the issue of changes in the Bulgarian anthroponymy from the Bulgarian National Revival period, which usually consists in an inconsistent, i.e. concerning only several historical figures, substitution of the Greek form Joan by the native form- Ivan. Furthermore, the author does not comprehensively answer the questions how and why it happened,...
Krashovani are the Catholic Slavic language minority settled in the region of Romanian Banat. They live in seven villages: Karashevo, Clocotici, Lupac, Nermet, Vodnic, Rafnic and Iabalcea, however, the last one represents an untypical case from the linguists’ point of view, the habitants usually communicate in Romanian, though they continue to declare themselves Krashovani. Time and reason of possible...
Poetical project by Sorbian poet Róža Domašcyna fits into the category of „minor literature”, coined by F. Guattari and G. Deleuze in 1975. Despite its inevitably political, ecological and ideological local connotations, it is rooted in the experience of modernity, still unpopular among the contemporary Sorbian writers. Its main topics are: the devastation of Lusatian environment, erotic...
This article aims to present and describe the situation of the literary language of the Molise Slavs. In the last decades, various scholars have expressed their views on this issue with some of them claiming that Molise Slavic is a literary language, whilst by the other ones this vernacular was denied such right. Although Alexandr D. Dulichenko – who coined the term „Slavic literarymicrolanguage”...
The article is based on a participatory observation and semi-structured interviews conducted in 2012 and 2013 with young (aged 16–25) Upper Sorbs and Kashubs. They were asked about their perception of the Upper Sorbian/Kashubian culture, its relation with the past, tradition and folklore, reception of the dominant image of their culture and the existence of a modern dimension of the Upper Sorbian/Kashubian...
The relatively scarce surveys in the field of neologisms and the complete lack of a large scale search approach, which could unveil their diverse and multifunctional inherent capacity, posits the goal of the present survey as one of many possible vistas for the overture of their expressive potential as a powerful factor for triggering the grotesque. The results of the survey confirm the hypothesis...
The article presents special types of proverbs in Kashubian paremiography: priamel, proverb as a dialogue, welleryzm. These outstanding examples of the proverbial formulas are rarely recorded, usually known locally. The author found in the work of Ceynowa, Rudnicki, Lorentz, Sychta 21 priamels, 4 proverbs as a dialogue and several welleryzms. In addition to the characteristic building is significant...
The term migration is used to describe a type of human behavior with immediate social, cultural, economic and political consequences. The researched cross-border labor mobility of the Karakachans in Bulgaria in the post socialist period affects more than 90% from the Karakachan families in only a few years. This problem is pressing concerning the protectional Greek policy towards the...
Since 1962, when Zbigniew Gołąb has published his fundamental study on Aromanian language in Macedonia, in Polish literature, beyond his study, there was a little interest in Aromanians as an ethnic group and in their language. In this article, the author focuses on 1) the changes the Aromanian language has been undergoing in the recent times, 2) how the transformation of the social situation...
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