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Title-Page and Table of Contents
- Authors: Kamen Rikev
  Pages: 1 - 6
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.1-6
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Bulgarian Studies in the Mirror of Emerging Black Sea Studies: A Plea for
Relocation
- Authors: Yordan Lyutskanov
  Pages: 7 - 32
  Abstract: The paper argues that Bulgarian studies should be divorced from the paradigms of Slavic, Balkan and European studies and be relocated, in order to let the discipline articulate suppressed historical perspectives and achieve better standing within a global distribution of academic labour. The author analyses a recent collective volume in Black Sea studies (‘The Black Sea as a Literary and Cultural Space’, 2019) and discerns some research perspectives that are worth adopting for the mentioned relocation. The article’s overall intention is to juxtapose and partly merge the research agendas of Bulgarian studies and Black Sea studies, or at least to provoke a relevant interest in the academia. Such an intention can be primarily grounded in a macrohistorical generalisation: three, out of altogether only four, centres of worldling for Bulgarians from the 9th century onwards were located in, or at least gravitated to, the Black Sea basin (Constantinople, Istanbul, and Imperial Petersburg / Soviet Moscow), and were for the most time Black Sea (co)hegemons.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.7-32
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Phonetic Features of the Belarusian New Testament Translations (Orthodox
and Catholic Editions)
- Authors: Yauhen Pankou
  Pages: 33 - 51
  Abstract: The paper presents a comparative analysis of phonetic features, mainly concerning proper names in the Catholic and Orthodox editions of the Gospel Books translated into Belarusian. The basis of the study is also formed by biblical text sources in Greek, Latin, Church Slavonic, Polish, and Russian. Furthermore, translation, explanatory and other dictionaries, as well as works on the historical phonetics of the Belarusian language and modern Belarusian literary phonetics are used. The article emphasizes how, under the influence of individual linguistic traditions, ancient Greek sounds and their combinations are reflected in different ways in translated texts. It is apparent that the translators of the Gospels into Belarusian exhibit a certain dependence on foreign-language influences, primarily Polish and Latin, Russian and Church Slavonic confessional traditions of pronunciation and writing; thus, the translators often fail to use the dictionary versions of names and titles not fully acknowledging the phonetic and articulatory processes characteristic of the modern Belarusian literary language.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.33-51
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
About the Translator’s Self-Consciousness (on the Example of the
Author’s Counter-Translations)
- Authors: Anna Bednarczyk
  Pages: 52 - 68
  Abstract: The paper examines the issue of translator’s self-awareness understood as an individual act of becoming aware of the reasons for and consequences of actions taken, as well as one’s own abilities, rather than as a competence referred to in skills and knowledge. Due to the fact that the latter are relatively often identified by researchers with self-consciousness, the text points to the reflections of philosophers who see this concept both in a broad and narrow sense as related to creative activity. Acknowledging the disconnect between self-consciousness and competence, the author cites not only judgements of theorists, but also examples of counter-translations of a given work in different variants by the same translator. Possible reasons for the creation of successive versions are discussed. The analysis confirms that the re-translation does not always correct the mistakes of the first one, and often turns out to be a response to a demanded, e.g. by the editors, approach to a particular text. This may be related to a different translation goal or to a different function of the target variant. Consequently, the article presents different Polish versions of Russian poems, equivalent from the point of view of lexical-semantic and stylistic adequacy of both texts, but different in terms of pragmatics.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.52-68
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Women’s Voices in the Balkan-Slavic Literary Space in the 19th and
the Early 20th Centuries
- Authors: Lyudmila Mindova
  Pages: 69 - 87
  Abstract: The paper presents an overview of the thematic fields and social stances in the works of prominent female writers from Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia in the late 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The author attempts to interpret the literary contribution of Balkan women authors outside the contemporary scholarly context of gender studies and focuses on their belated acknowledgement by male historian of South-Slavic literatures. The paper stresses out that by the beginning of the 20th century only educated women from the national elite could claim equality with men in cultural debates. The author concludes that Balkan Slavic female writers of the period are actively engaged in the process of preserving family and Christian values, as well as in the defense of women’s civil and electoral rights and the right to quality education. The works of Serbian writers Jelena Dimit-rijević, Danica Marković and Isidora Sekulić, Croats Dragolja Jarnević, Ivana Brlić Mažuranić and Marija Jurić Zagorka, Slovenians Lily Novy, Vida Taufer, and Bulgarians Mara Belcheva, Dora Gabe, Elisaveta Bagryana demonstrate considerable diversity in the styles, ethical and religious beliefs, however their contribution to the Balkan Slavic cultural processes is similarly significant in terms of upholding high civic engagement and modern European values.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.69-87
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
‘Summer with Bent Back, Autumn with Full Sack’ – Lemko Folk Proverbs
of the Summer-Autumn Period from the Village of Swiatkowa Wielka
- Authors: Tomasz Kwoka
  Pages: 88 - 109
  Abstract: The analysis of Lemko folk proverbs from Boleslaw Bawolak’s book Lemko Proverbs and Sayings from Swiatkowa Wielka and the Surrounding Area (2021) provides the basis for the reconstruction of beliefs and convictions about running a household as well as relationships between natural phenomena and their impact on human life in the summer-autumn period, as ingrained in language and culture. The analysed material includes calendar proverbs which, apart from the principles of good husbandry as well as norms and rules of rural life, comprise a number of meteorological forecasts based on long-time observations of natural phenomena. Based on the fact that calendar proverbs constitute a fundamental part of the symbolic culture of nations and communities, the analysis allows to confirm that, as an integral element of non-material culture, the studied paroemias promoted best practices in running a farm, indicated preferred methods of land tillage, and defined time limits for specific activities in the summer-autumn period. In the case of the analysed phrasematic material from the village of Swiatkowa Wielka, the article, besides its linguistic value, also contributes to the studies into the culture of the people forced to leave their native lands in 1945–1947.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.88-109
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Slavic Lexis in the Names of Elements of Rhodope Women’s Traditional
Clothing
- Authors: Elena Kanevska-Nikolova
  Pages: 110 - 122
  Abstract: The article reveals old Slavic layers in the Bulgarian names of elements of the Rhodope women’s traditional costume. The research is based on 156 terminological units that prove the existence of numerous equivalents in Slavic languages for the names of women’s outerwear, hairstyles and headscarves, aprons and belts. The largest share of the studied terms comes from the general Slavic lexicon with terminological names or their etymons found in all three groups of Slavic languages. Some of the names used in the Rhodope region, however, appear only in South and East Slavic languages. Several terms have been borrowed into Bulgarian and other Slavic languages from non-Slavic languages. The author concludes that although etymons in the vast majority of the studied terms are common Slavic, there is also a number of lexemes used in the Rhodope region that appear in other Slavic languages with the same morphemic composition.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.110-122
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Polish and Bulgarian Phrasemes with a Nominal Component ‘Ucho –
Uszy’ / ‘Ухо – Уши’ [‘Ear – Ears’]
- Authors: Joanna Mleczko
  Pages: 123 - 138
  Abstract: The paper analyzes Polish and Bulgarian phrasemes with the nominal component ‘ucho – uszy’ / ‘ухо – уши’ [‘ear – ears’]. Based on motivation, they form three internally different groups. The first group includes phrasemes whose meaning reveals functional, anatomical and spatial slogans inherent in the semantic structure of the lexeme ‘ear’ naming a part of the body. The second group consists of phraseological compounds with cultural motivation, and the third group includes units with the lexeme ‘ear’ used in figurative meanings. Most of the symbolic meanings attributed to the ear have been fixed in both Polish and Bulgarian phraseological compounds. The compounds that differ in meaning in the two languages are few; more common is the expansion of meaning in one of the languages. In both Polish and Bulgarian data, there are units that have no equivalent in the other language.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.123-138
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Personal Nomina Attributiva with Suffixes in Polish and Belarusian
- Authors: Agnieszka Anna Goral
  Pages: 139 - 154
  Abstract: The paper examines personal nouns belonging to the category of nomina attributiva in Polish and Belarusian. The research material includes over 450 derivatives (around 200 in Polish and around 250 in Belarusian), formed by suffixes from the basis of adjectives and adjectival participles, less often from nouns and verbs. A comparative method was used in the analysis. When describing the lexical corpus, the affiliation of lexical units to the category of personal feature carriers, their formal structure (connectivity of the word-formation base with the suffixal formant, morphological phenomena accompanying derivation), as well as the number of word-formation types were taken into account. The study reveals that in both Polish and Belarusian within the analyzed category the highest productivity is shown by the suffixes -ec // -ец (26% in Polish and 27% in Belarusian), -ak // -ак (14% and 19% respectively) and -ik // -iк (12% and 10%). In attributive personal names, the word-formation formant performs a semantic function, and the derivation itself has a mutational character. As the nomination indicates the sender’s attitude (usually negative), mutations are often accompanied by expressive phenomena.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.139-154
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
The ‘Homeland – Graves’ Topos in Media Publications of the Polish
Autocephalous Orthodox Church
- Authors: Jan Morawicki
  Pages: 155 - 171
  Abstract: The paper examines the ‘homeland – graves’ literary topos appearing in media publications of the Polish Orthodox Church. The material is excerpted from the periodicals ‘Przegląd Prawosławny’, ‘Polski Żołnierz Prawosławny’, ‘Cerkiewny Wiestnik’ and ‘Wiadomości Polskiego Autokefalicznego Kościoła Prawosławnego’ from the years 1989–2012. Based on the analysis of nine text samples, the author concludes that the presence of this topos is not connected either with genre features of the publications, or with text’s direct content (the time and place of the described events have no effect on the appearance of the topos). Analyses also reveal that the topos most often stimulates expressive, evaluative language; burial places are often mentioned to emphasize the belonging of Orthodox community members to the Polish nation and also include the aspect of the victims’ sacralization; the concept of homeland may refer to a specific region of Poland, the whole country, or to a territory inhabited predominantly by several generations of Orthodox Christians. The use of the ‘homeland – graves’ topos serves the aim to reveal Orthodox citizens as an integral part of the Polish society that shares the same challenges and makes the same sacrifices as other Poles. On the other hand, the topos may emphasize that Orthodox Christians comprise a separate community within the Polish state as they have been subject to persecution and suffering for their religious beliefs.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.155-171
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
A Concept for a Polish-Ukrainian, Ukrainian-Polish Explanatory Dictionary
of Mathematical Terms
- Authors: Hanna Melnyk
  Pages: 172 - 184
  Abstract: Although many scholarly works have addressed Polish-Ukrainian lexicographical issues after 1991, a bilingual explanatory dictionary of mathematical terms has not yet been published. The aim of this article is to present the basic concepts behind a Polish-Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Polish explanatory dictionary of mathematical terms, planned for publication by the present author in the near future. The article describes basic characteristics such as the form, temporal scope, character, sources and the size of the dictionary. Headword rules are also formulated and the microstructure of the dictionary is discussed. The presented lexicographic framework is illustrated by several examples. The article also briefly describes the current state of research in the field of Polish-Ukrainian terminography.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.172-184
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Who, When, Where… – on a Tool to Simplify the Understanding of Vita
Constantini Wojciech Stelmach
- Authors: Wojciech Stelmach
  Pages: 185 - 190
  Abstract: A review of: Ivanova, Maya & Tsvetomira Danova. Who, When, Where in Vita Constantini. Handbook. Sofia: Cyrillo-Methodian Research Center at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2021, 304 pp. ISBN 978-954-9787-44-3. [In Bulgarian: Иванова, Мая & Цветомира Данова. Кой, кога, къде в Пространното Житие на св. Константин-Кирил. Помагало. София: Кирило-Методиевски научен център при БАН, 2021, 304 с.]
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.185-190
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Can Less Be More' About the Author’s Concept of a Spelling
Dictionary
- Authors: Sebastian Surendra
  Pages: 191 - 199
  Abstract: The author presents the assumptions of his recently published spelling dictionary of the Polish language (Slownik ortograficzny wspolczesnego jezyka polskiego z poradnikiem. Poznan: Silva Rerum, 2022). The article discusses the features of the term ‘author’s spelling dictionary’, as well as the complexity of Polish spelling and punctuation rules. The main part of the text is dedicated to the structure of the dictionary’s explanatory section and entry part. The author’s aim was to create a dictionary based on explaining Polish orthography in a way that is quickly understandable to the general reader. The dictionary and its explanatory section may be regarded as popular science, although they also contain strictly scientific and meta-scientific structures. The distinctive feature of the dictionary is that its entry list contains only those words in which a language user is likely to make a mistake. The author places special emphasis on the claim that he has created a spelling dictionary that teaches the mechanisms of the language and does not require the reader to constantly check for separate words.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.191-199
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Dejan Ajdacic’s ‘Polish-Serbian Literary Relations’ and the
Reception History of Serbian Literature in Poland and Polish Literature in
Serbia
- Authors: Piotr Mirocha
  Pages: 200 - 207
  Abstract: A review of: Ajdačić, Dejan. Polish-Serbian Literary Relations. Translations and Reception (In Serbian: Poljsko-srpske književne veze. Prevodi i recepcija). University of Gdansk Press, 2021, 124 pp. ISBN 978-83-8206-249-6. Particular attention is paid to the perspective of reception history of Polish-Serbian literary contacts throughout history.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.200-207
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Polish-Serbian Overview of Literary Relations – a Fresh Look
- Authors: Piotr Kręzel
  Pages: 208 - 213
  Abstract: A review of: Ajdačić, Dejan. Polish-Serbian Literary Relations. Translations and Reception (In Serbian: Poljsko-srpske književne veze. Prevodi i recepcija). University of Gdansk Press, 2021, 124 pp. ISBN 978-83-8206-249-6.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.208-213
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
On the Miracle of Solidarity and Freedom
- Authors: Lyudmila Mindova
  Pages: 214 - 219
  Abstract: A review of: Herling-Grudziński, Gustaw. The Wings of the Altar: Short Stories, Diaries, Essays. Transl. into Bulgarian: Margreta Grigorova, Desislava Nedyalkova. Ruse: Elias Canetti, 2021, 484 pp. ISBN 978-95-4299-244-8. [In Bulgarian: Херлинг-Груджински, Густав. Крилата на олтара: Разкази, дневници, есета. Превод от полски: Маргрета Григорова, Десислава Недялкова. Русе: Елиас Канети, 2021.]
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.214-219
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Literature and Memory
- Authors: Velislava Doneva
  Pages: 220 - 226
  Abstract: A review of: Dushkova, Mira, ed. The Literary Ruse. Vol. 1: Ruse – A City of the Word. A Collection of Articles and Studies. Shumen: Bishop Konstantin Preslavsky University Press, 2022, 170 pp. ISBN 978-619-201-551-0; Bratanova, Zvezdelina, ed. The Literary Ruse. Vol. 2: Literary Surveys. Shumen: Bishop Konstantin Preslavsky University Press, 2022, 196 pp. ISBN 978-619-201-554-1. [In Bulgarian: Душкова, Мира, съст. Литературният Русе. Том 1: Русе – град на словото. Сборник със статии и студии. Шумен: УИ Епископ Константин Преславски, 2022; Братанова, Звезделина, съст. Литературният Русе. Том 2: Литературни анкети. Шумен: УИ Епископ Константин Преславски, 2022.]
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.220-226
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Contemporary Image of the Polish-Belarusian-Lithuanian Borderland. A Look
from the Inside
- Authors: Jadwiga Kozłowska-Doda
  Pages: 227 - 240
  Abstract: The purpose of this publication is to evaluate Anna Żebrowska’s book ‘Komarovshchyzna. The Belarusian-Polish-Lithuanian Borderland’ (Poznan: UAM Press, 2019) on the background of other studies of Belarusian dialects in the Myadzel district (north-western Belarus). The monograph fills a gap in the existing dialectological research, revealing in detail the phonetic, morphological, syntactic and lexical peculiarities of the local Belarusian dialect. The research, based on the anthropological method, also contains a rich selection of dialect texts. The review stresses out the advantages of the book, as well as draws attention to certain disputable issues.
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.227-240
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Prof. Feliks Czyżewski as a Researcher of the Polish-East Slavic
Borderland
- Authors: Agnieszka Goral
  Pages: 241 - 246
  Abstract: A review of: Dudek-Szumigaj, Agnieszka, ed. Language and Culture of the Borderland. A Collective Volume Dedicated to Prof. Feliks Czyżewski on the 45th Anniversary of His Scholarly and Educational Activities. Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie Wspolpracy Polska – Wschod, 2019. ISBN 9788363554446, 132 pp. [In Polish: Dudek-Szumigaj, Agnieszka, red. Język i kultura pogranicza. Profesorowi Feliksowi Czyżewskiemu w 45-lecie pracy naukowej i dydaktycznej. Warszawa: Stowarzyszenie Współpracy Polska – Wschód, 2019.]
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.241-246
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
At the Border of Empires. Kujawy-Dobrzyń Orthodox Diaspora in the Light
of Anthroponymy (Second Half of the 19th – Beginning of the 20th
Century)
- Authors: Piotr Złotkowski
  Pages: 247 - 251
  Abstract: A review of: Duszyński-Karabasz, Henryk. Anthroponymy of Orthodox parishioners in Eastern Kuyavia and Dobrzyń Land in the second half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. Bydgoszcz: Kazimierz Wielki University Press, 2022, 322 pp. ISBN 978-83-8018-500-5. [In Polish: Duszyński-Karabasz, Henryk. Antroponimia wiernych parafii prawosławnych na Kujawach Wschodnich i w ziemi dobrzyńskiej w II połowie XIX i w początkach XX wieku. Bydgoszcz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego, 2022, 322 ss.]
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.247-251
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
The International Anniversary Conference of the Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin
Institute for Bulgarian Language 2022
- Authors: Petar Sotirov
  Pages: 252 - 260
  Abstract: A report on the international conference in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin Institute for Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, May 15–17 2022).
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.252-260
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)
Notes on the Authors
- Authors: Kamen Rikev
  Pages: 261 - 262
  PubDate: 2022-12-05
  DOI: 10.17951/zcm.2022.11.261-262
  Issue No: Vol. 11 (2022)