This study attempts to characterize terminology unification in the European Union legislation, regarding both content and form. It analyzes terms related to the thematic field of environmental law in four official EU languages: two Slavic (Bulgarian and Polish) and two non-Slavic (Modern Greek and English). Different types of relations between the languages under comparison suggest possible directions for further comparative study. The comparison aims to identify differences and similarities in the componential structure, formal-grammatical structure, word formation structure, form variantivity, origin and formal status. The study may also testify to the presence of linguistic convergence processes in the multilingual European Union.
This study attempts to characterize terminology unification in the European Union legislation, regarding both content and form. It analyzes terms related to the thematic field of environmental law in four official EU languages: two Slavic (Bulgarian and Polish) and two non-Slavic (Modern Greek and English). Different types of relations between the languages under comparison suggest possible directions for further comparative study. The comparison aims to identify differences and similarities in the componential structure, formal-grammatical structure, word formation structure, form variantivity, origin and formal status. The study may also testify to the presence of linguistic convergence processes in the multilingual European Union.
Registers in Bulgarian Journalist Discouse: Review: Andreana Eftimova, Registri v zhurnalisticheskiia diskurs, Universitetsko izdatelstvo “Sv. Kliment Okhridski”, Sofiia 2018, 244 pp.The article is a review of Andreana Eftimova’s study Registri v zhurnalisticheskiia diskurs [Registers in Journalistic Discourse].Rejestry w bułgarskim dyskursie dziennikarskim. Rec.: Андреана Ефтимова, Регистри в журналистическия дискурс, Университетско издателство „Св. Климент Охридски”, София 2018, 244 ss.Artykuł stanowi recenzję pracy Andreany Eftimowej Регистри в журналистическия дискурс [Rejestry w dyskursie dziennikarskim].
Artykuł skupia się na semantyce specyficznego obszaru gramatyki języka bułgarskiego, znanego jako ewidencjalność. Wywód opiera się na dyskusji z koncepcją Anny Wierzbickiej dotyczącą ewidencjalności w językach bułgarskim i macedońskim (w: Semantics: Primes and Universals. Oxford: 1996). Autorki próbują określić znaczenie bułgarskich form renaratywnych, dubitatywnych, inferencjalnych i miratywnych, korzystając z proponowanych przez Wierzbicką uniwersalnych jednostek semantycznych ‘wiem’ i ‘myślę’. W rezultacie artykuł rewiduje oraz weryfikuje metodologię Wierzbickiej, ukazując jej przydatność w opisie kategorii gramatycznych oraz w badaniach międzykulturowych.
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Our focus in this paper is on the semantics of a particular grammatical category of Bulgarian, namely evidentiality. Our starting point is the account of evidentiality in Macedonian and Bulgarian in Wierzbicka (in Semantics: Primes and Universals. Oxford: 1996). We elaborate and expand on this proposal by suggesting semantic formulae for the renarrative, dubitative, inferential, and mirative forms, incorporating Wierzbicka’s universal semantic primitives know and think. Our aim is to provide a stepping stone towards precise intra- and inter-linguistic comparisons.
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