Conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Prof. Stefana Dimitrova
“Current Issues in Contemporary Linguistics” is the topic of the National Conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Prof. Dr. Honoris Causa Stefana Dimitrova.
The two-day forum will be opened on 5th September 2015 at 9.00am in the Great Hall of the Institute for Bulgarian Language “Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin”, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, 52 Shipchenski Prohod Blvd., building 17). Professor St. Dimitrova will be presented with an Honorary Insignia “For Merits to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences” and an Honorary Plaque of Merit by the Institute for Bulgarian Language. 82 reports will be presented at the Conference by researchers working in the field of modern Bulgarian, history of the Bulgarian language, the interaction between Bulgarian and Balkan Slavic languages, general linguistics, semantics and pragmatics, text linguistics, sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics.
Prof. Stefana Dimitrova is the author of monographs, studies, articles, reviews, which together exceed 500, as well as a scientific editor of collections, readers, textbooks. They are focused on different areas of linguistics – phraseology, linguistic basis of the description of the Russian language for foreigners, structuralism as a research method, theory and practice of transcription, problems of the language anti-system, basic concepts of pragmatics, text linguistics, problems of linguistic typology, linguistic relativity hypothesis, children linguistics, biographical reviews of linguists, etc.
The publications of Professor Dimitrova are valued highly in the Bulgarian and international linguistic community. Among them is “Quantitative and structural methods in art history” (Sofia: Science and Art, 1979; in Bulgarian), which received an award for best structural theoretical study by the International Linguistic Directory in The Hague in 1980. The book is the first Bulgarian monograph on the structural methods in different areas of the humanities, including linguistics. The greatest international impact is due to her monograph “Exceptions in Russian” (Columbus: Slavica Publishers, 1994; in Russian). The work presents an original theory of the language anti-system, which is viewed as the driving force of language evolution. In January 1995 a special presentation of the book took place during the Jubilee conference of Moscow University, dedicated to Acad. V. V. Vinogradov, where she received the Award for Best Linguistic Work of the Year by the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature.
