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Labor Mobility of the Karakachans in Bulgaria - Circumstances and Motivation

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…

Gagauz People as a Micronation

This article aims at givng a brief description of the Gagauz people in the areas of Bessarabia and Bulgaria. Gaugazes are a group of elusive people, whose origin seems to be obscure because of only indirect written sour…

Language as a Tool of Shaping Pro-ecological Attitudes on Polish and Bulgarian Compounds with the Eco- Component in the Journalistic Discourse

The article focuses on the selected cognitive aspects of the interpretation of meaning of Polish and Bulgarian compounds with the eco-component in the journalistic discourse. According to the assumptions suggested by J.…

The Expressive Potential of Neologisms as the Catalyst for Grotesque Generation [Based on Excerpts from the Novel Cosmos by W. Gombrowicz]

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 sur…

How Joan Became Ivan [About Changes in the Bulgarian Anthroponymy from the Bulgarian National Revival Period]

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 figur…

Umění a religiozita v esteticko-filozofickém systému Dmitrije Sergejeviče Merežkovského

The study is aimed on traces of religiosity in aesthetic-philosophical system of a Russian symbolistic poet, prosaic writer and thinker D.S. Merezhkovsky. The study analyses selected Merezhkovsky's works with focus on a…

Author's Neologisms in the Contemporary Bulgarian Press

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 spe…

Rzecz o górnołużyckich zdrobnieniach - ujęcie systemowe i tekstologiczne

Tradition, Folklore, Modernity. Upper Sorbian and Kashubian Culture Through the Eyes of Its Young Representatives

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/…

Miłość niejedno ma imię

O tym, jak Hus stał się Husem albo droga życiowa czeskiego reformatora w dwudziestu rozdziałach

O przyjemności lektury

Zabezpieczanie drogi wiodącej ku poezji

Lekkość śmiechu i ciężar grozy, czyli wyprawa w świat czeskich strachów

Mediolingwistyka

W kręgu opracowań fundamentalnych

On the Molise Slavic Literary Standard

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…

A Phenomenon of Modern Slavic Microphilology in Slavic Studies

The article addresses a phenomenon of Slavic microphilology, outlines the structure and classification of modern Slavic literary microlanguages, introduces their different characteristic, and suggests arguments in favou…

Development of Russophile and Narodovetsky Movements in Transcarpathia

The article researches a development of the national-cultural movements. The attention is paid to the development of Russophiles and its organizational center „Organization of Saint Vasyl the Great". Author describes th…

Stylization - Ideas for the Reactivation of the Silesian Language

In the article, the status of the Silesian ethnolanguage is shortly discussed. The opinions of two groups writing about this topic are presented: those writing from the perspective of the detailed linguistics (historica…

Od redakcji

The Banat Bulgarians - a Phenomenon of Cultural Continuity

Nowadays, the so-called Banat Bulgarians are a numerous group of the descendants of Bulgarian Catholics, which were forced to emigrate to Wallachia in the end of the 17th century and in the beginning of the 18th century…

Bunjevci from Bačka - Language and Identity

Bunjevci from the region of Bačka are a deeply divided community: some of them believe they are a separate ethnic group with a distinct language, while others claim they are a subgroup of Croats and speak a Croatian dia…

Resian: Genealogical and Sociolinguistic Definition

The article presents a genealogical and sociolinguistic classification of Slavic idioms, drawing on the example of Resian. Resian is an autochthonous idiom, spoken in the Resia Valley (Ital. Val Resia), which belongs to…