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APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Motivational and Ethnocultural Potential of the Concept Water and its Reflections in the Linguistic View of the World in Slavic Nations
Mária Dobríková
Comenius University in Bratislava
Bratislava, Slovakia
https://doi.org/10.53656/for21.11moti
Abstract. The first part of the article is focused on theoretical side of the process of idiom creation and on defining terms word motivation and idiom motivation...
The Saga of Icelandic
Yana Chankova
South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
https://doi.org/10.53656/for21.12saga
Abstract. This paper seeks to answer the question whether the great wealth of Icelandic literature in the sagas and the Eddas of the 12th – 13th c. is accessible to modern Icelanders without special linguistic training and hence whether it is possible for a language to remain almost intact and impervious to changes for more than 7 centuries...
METHODOLOGY
Verbs and Proposition Phrases as a Model for Describing the Content of Metasubject Competencies in the Perspectives and Expectations of Labor Market Participants
Sergey V. Vesmanov, Natalya V. Jadko, Dmitriy S. Vesmanov, Gurgen A. Akopyan
Moscow City University
https://doi.org/10.53656/for21.13glag
Abstract. The article presents results of studying how the labor market participants formulate the perspectives and expectations about the contents of metasubject competencies...
“Black Holes” in Comprehension, or on the Complexity of the Translated Text in Children’s Reception
Edyta Manasterska-Wiącek
Maria Curie-Sklodovska University - Lublin, (Poland)
https://doi.org/10.53656/for21.14diri
Abstract. The aim of the article is to investigate the effect of vocabulary items that are difficult in reception on comprehension and evaluation of the whole literary text by children...
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Тhe Forging of the Self – a Universal Alien
Magdalena Kostova-Panayotova
South-West University „Neofit Rilski“
https://doi.org/10.53656/for21.15izko
Abstract. The article examines the first novel of the French writer of Vietnamese origin Anna Moï, which brought her success on the French and world stage...
To the Question of Russian-Language Literature as a Factor for Preserving the Vitality of the Russian Language
Ivelina Todorova
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
https://doi.org/10.53656/for21.16vopr
Abstract. The article is devoted to the preservation of survival (vitality) of the Russian language through the prism of translational literature, which is created by ethnically non-Russian authors...
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LINGUODIDACTICAL ARCHEOLOGY
Hristaki Pavlovicн and His Letterwriting Lessons in the „Pismennik Obshtepolezen“ (1835)
Diana Ivanova
University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”
https://doi.org/10.53656/for21.17hris
Abstract. The object of the research is one of the first two modern Bulgarian textbooks on letter writing – „Pismennik obshtepolezen“ („A Letter Writing Handbook of General Use“), 1835, by the prominent Revival pedagogue Hristaki Pavlovich...
EVENTS
Novel as History, History as Novel
Moris Fadel
New Bulgarian University
REVIEWS AND ANNOTATIONS
Intercultural Communication and Digitalization in Education
Danov, D. (2020). Digitalizatsiya i obrazovanie: inovativnost, kreativnost i interkulturnost. Sofia:
Sv. Kliment Ohridski, 168 p. ISBN 9789540750040
Milena Yordanova
Sofia University
The Impact of English as a Lingua Franca on the English Language Pedagogy
Sifakis, N. & Tsantila N. (2019). English as a Lingua Franca for EFL Contexts. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Natalia Rzońca
Jagiellonian University (Poland)
https://doi.org/10.53656/for21.18roma
Gestures as a Memory of Culture
Madzharov, D. (2017). From Choice of Ruler to Child‘s Play.
Changes in the Ritual Gesture in Hungarian Culture. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University
Publishing House. ISBN 954-07-4269-4
Yonka Naydenova
Institute for Literature
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sofia, Bulgaria
https://doi.org/10.53656/for21.19mejd
