On the Arabic Concept of Houries (ḥūr ʻīn) and its Representations in the Literature of the Bulgarian National Revival
Dr. Galina Evstatieva, Assoc. Prof.
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/for2024-02-01
Absract. The present study draws on texts from the classical Muslim exegetical tradition discussing the houries (ḥūr ʻīn) – one of the eschatologically central, but insufficiently defined Qur’ānic concepts referring to key notions of the heavenly virgins...
On Emotional States and their Syntactic Representation
Prof. Dr. Yovka Tisheva, Dr. Marina Dzhonova, Assoc. Prof.
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/for2024-02-03
Absract. The study focuses on the analyses of syntactic structure of some predicates and state predicatives denoting positive emotion: veselya (to make someone happy, in a good moon), veselya se (to frolic, to party), vessel sam (to be happy), veselo (mi) e (to be in a good mood), veselba e (it is fun)...
Techniques of Shortening in Maritime English
Dr. Galina V. Velikova, Assoc. Prof.
Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy – Varna (Bulgaria)
https://doi.org/10.53656/for2024-02-04
Abstract. This study aims to offer a classification of shortened terms and terminological phrases in Maritime English using the lexico-semantic method…
Exploring the Potential of Audiobooks to Build Key Competences in English Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
Dr. Teodora Genova,
Prof. Dr. Magdalena Garvanova
University of Library Studies and Information Technologies
Sofia, Bulgaria
https://doi.org/10.53656/for2024-02-05
Absract. The article aims to examine audiobooks as an innovative pedagogical tool for building key competencies in English foreign language teaching and learning, namely multilingual, digital, intercultural, personal, social and learning competence...
Chinese Mythology and Transmedia Storytelling
Dr. Elitsa Milanova, Assist. Prof.
Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
(Bulgaria)
https://doi.org/10.53656/for2024-02-08
Absract. The article analyzes the representation of Chinese mythology in the movie “Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings” and the movie as liguodidactic tool for learning Chinese language and culture...
Between Homer and ChatGPT
Nikolay Tsenkov, PhD
South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
https://doi.org/10.53656/for2024-02-09
Absract. The article aims to trace the impact that artificial intelligence has on the contemporary communication paradigm. ..
Prof. Ivan Shishmanov – Between Slavic and Western Literary Canon
Prof. Dr. Lyudmil Dimitrov
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/for2024-02-10
Absract. The text traces and comments on an unknown side of Prof. Ivan Shishmanov’s work and scientific achievements – his lectures dedicated to the Slavs and the Slavic world, written in German and read during the academic year 1923/1924 at the invitation of the University of Freiburg in Germany...
Innovations in Contemporary Multiculturalism
Raya Zhivkova-Krupeva and Todor Shopov,
Be all of one mind... The sociolinguistics of interculturalism
University Publishing House "St. Kliment Ohridski",
Sofia, 2023, 175 pp., ISBN 978-954-07-5740-7
Prof. Dimitar Vesselinov, DSc.
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/for2024-02-11
