Issue 8, 2026

Contents of Issue 8

Foreword

I. Linguistics

What is темелнѥ, or Ways of Measuring and Indicating Time in Oldbulgarian Epigraphs (XII-XV C.)

Velichka Ilieva

Transcribing Reduced Vowels in the Bulgarian Language through the Symbols of the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)

Plamena Koleva

The Substitution of the Preposition “u” with the Preposition “v”

Ivanela Georgieva

Bulgarian Idioms about Hard-working and Lazy People (Structural Features and Usage)

Ani Angelova

Contemporary Trends in the Use of Vocative Forms in the Bulgarian

Mariana Popcheva

Expressing Non-reliability beyond the Dubitative Paradigm in Bulgarian Language

Diana Androva

Syntactic Realization of the Gerund and Its Modifiers

Ivana Kuneva

Models of Complementation with Speech-Causative Predicates

Siyana Ilieva

A Structural Modeling Attempt of the Greek Temporal System in Comparison with the Bulgarian

Marios Risianos

The Language of the Internet from the Perspective of Contemporary Bulgarian Linguistic Studies

Tanya Todorova

Linguo-cultural Analysis of the Semantics of the Colors White, Red and Black in Bulgarian and Chinese

Teodora Stoyanova

How „Cunning“ are the Bulgarian and the German Fox? (Observations through the Prism of Bulgarian and German Phraseologisms from the Semantic Field of Cunning-Deception)

Ventsislava Pisacheva

Idioms with “göz” (Eye) as a Reflection of Socialattitudes in Turkish Society

Aysun Mehmed

To the Question of the Lexical and  Syntactic Means of the Bulgarian Conclusive in Comparison with Contemporary Italian

Bozhidar Boyadzhiev

Hyperbole from a Pragmatic Functional Perspective (Based on the Works of A. Matveeva)

Gabriela Terziyska

II. Literary Studies

The Missing Ribbon: Lotte Quotes “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

Ivan Georgiev

The Multiplicity of Personality from the Depths of Malone’s Soul

Maria Gencheva

“Heroines of the New Times: Emancipation through the Language of the Female Gothic – Ann Radcliffe and A.S. Byatt”

Anastasiya Dilova

The Echo Chambers of a Child’s Temporality: Dickens’s Great Expectations

Kristina Yasenova

The Double-edged Sword of Words: Language as Oppression and Resistance in R. F. Kuang’s “Babel”

Preslava Peneva

Supernatural Horror according to H. P. Lovecraft: a Few Entry Points in the Study of Weird Fiction

Iva Stefanova

The Awakening of Language in Gao Xingjian’s Novel Soul Mountain

Stefan Rusinov

Automatic Writing as Linguistic Rebellion: the Linguistic Realization of the Unconscious

Gergana Galabova

Time Travel as a Tragic Experience in “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Vyara Gramatikova

The Queer-identified Protagonist as a Cultural Mediator in The Hop Çiki Yaya Series by the Turkish Author Mehmet Murat Somer

Denislava Kovacheva

Narrative Strategies in “Lolita”and “We”

Tihomir Alexiev

The Opposition between Transparency and Opacity in Vladimir Nabokov`s Novel „Invitation to a Beheading“

Ivan Ananiev

The Christian Side of G. Milev’s Poem “September”

Stylianos Kapatos

The Literary Collection “The City” (1922) in the Context of the Regional Literature of the Youngest from the Beginning of the 1920s

Bozhana Boneva

The Image of the Homeland – a Comparative Analysis of the Poems “Rodina”by Nikolay Liliev and «H πολισ» (“The City”) by Konstantinos Kavafis

Constantina Xiarchou

Language as Resistance: Play and Identity in Georgi Markov’s “The Portrait of My Double’’

Vesela Bozova

Man as a Redundant Instrument: a Collapse in Four Movements in “A Ballad for Georg Henig” by Viktor Paskov

Denitsa Raycheva

The Picaresque Gnosticism in the Novel “Vazvishenie”: the Gnostic Prevails over the Picaro

Aleksandar Dimitrov

“From Outlaw and Robber to Owner of Omnibus – the Meeting between Bae Slave from “Chamkoria” and Bacho Gicho from “Elevation” by Milen Ruskov

Nikolay Boev