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Spiritual Values and Traditional Culture

Department of Etholinguistics

Period: 2021 – 2022

Type of project: collective, international

Partners: Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics in the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Funding: Program “Mobility” of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Principal Investigator: prof. Maria Kitanova PhD

Participants: prof. Maria Kitanova PhD, assoc. prof. Ioanna Kirilova PhD, assoc. prof. Kalina Micheva-Peycheva, prof. Mariana Cibranska-Kostova PhD (department of history of the Bulgarian language), prof. Elka Mircheva PhD (department of history of the Bulgarian language), assoc. prof. Vanya Micheva PhD (department of history of the Bulgarian language); prof. Peter Žeňuch PhD (principal investigator of the project from slovak side), prof. Peter Zubko PhD, assoc. prof. Katarína Žeňuchová PhD, Svetlana Šašerina PhD

Abstract:

The problems connected with the spiritual values and traditional culture is object for studying in the new directions of the anthropological linguistics from the end of the 20. and the beginning of the 21. century. It has its place in the publications of the experts from the Moscows etnolinguistic school with pricipal investigator Sv. Tostaya, from the Lublin’s etnolinguistic school with principal investigator J. Bartmiński, from the Sofia center for etnolinguistic researches with principal investigator M. Kitanova and from the Slovak etnolinguistic school with principal investigator P. Žeňuch. The participants of the project work in the field of the historic of the linguoculturology and modern etnolinguistic by appling the diachronic and synchronous method of research. The new and the specific in the project is the integration of the methods for processing and analysis of a material from the literary sources from the Middle Ages and of data from traditional culture of Bulgarians and Slovaks. This makes this project innovative and valuable for the development of the bulgarian and slovak science. The project intends: studying the literary sources from the Middle Ages so that can be found tracks from traditional believes; applying of the theory for language picture of the world and its dominating concepts and opositions that are connected with the values in the traditional culture, to different type of historical and modern literary sources; forming of scientific theory about spiritual values by proving the connection and mutual influences between official and traditional cultural paradigm of conceptual and language level; comparison between spiritual values in bulgarian and slovak literary and traditional culture.

The project is part of the priorirty scientific direction of the Institute for Bulgarian language Language cultural-historical heritage of the Bulgarians.

Results: Thematically connected articles and research papers