Ethnoculture and National Communication Style
Department of Ethnolinguistics
Period: 2017-2022
Type of project: collective, national
Funding: budgetary (BAS)
Principal Investigator: Prof. Maria Kitanova PhD
Participants: : prof. M. Kitanova PhD, prof. Mariana Georgieva Dsc., assoc. prof. Mariana Vitanova PhD, assoc. prof. Yoanna Kirilova PhD, assoc prof. Kalina Micheva-Peycheva PhD, assist. prof. Nadezhda Nikolova PhD, Tsvetelina Angelova PhD, assoc. prof. Vanya Micheva (Department of History of Bulgarian language), assist. Teodora Krasteva
Abstract:
The projects is connected with the research of key concepts from the bulgarian culture and languafe including in comparison with different languages. The goal is to outline the stereotypes of the Bulgarian and language specific lexicalizations of ideas connected with national way of living and culture on the basis of data from different sources (synchronous, diachronic and survey materials). The research activity is aimed at to the reveal and studying of cultural specific details of communication, of the national culture that composes the speech, also it is aimed at the systematic research and description of the grammatical system of the Bulgarian language. Within the project three topics are being developed. The first topic “The associative world of the Bulgarian” (2020 – 2022) has a principal investigator prof. Maria Kitanova PhD and participants: prof. Maria Kitanova PhD, assoc. prof. Mariana Vitanova PhD, assoc. prof. Yoanna Kirilova PhD, assoc. prof. Kalina Micheva-Peycheva, assoc. prof. Vanya Micheva PhD, assist. prof. Nadezhda Nikolova PhD, Tsvetelina Angelova PhD. The research is connected to the bulgarian participation in the project EUROJOS. The used methodology is created by the etnolinguistic school in Ljubljana and includes research of the syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships of the lexems. The following will be researched: the motherland as a value in the bulgarian language picture of the world also the concepts of health, soul, people, justice and solidarity. The second topic is “Cognitive aspects of the sentence”(16. 07. 2020 – 15. 07. 2023) with executor prof. Mariana Georgieva Dsc. The aim is to present the resources of the grammaticalisation in the structure and the compostion of the sentence with the cognitive method and to research the projections of the language categorisation of facts and events from the reality in the categorisation in syntax with analysis of positions in the structure in the composition of the sentence. The third topic “Language identity and language space in the media discource”(1.09.2020 – 1.09.2023) has a principal investigator prof. Mariana Georgieva Dsc and participants: prof. Mariana Georgieva Dsc, assoc. prof. Vladislav Milanov PhD (outside cooperator , Sofia university St. Kliment Ohridski) and assist. Teodora Krasteva. The goal is to present the language identity in the media discource as an initiator, as an autor and as a addressee also the paramethers of the language space in the media discource as a reference of the concept field of the public space. The analysis of the verbal and non-verbal methods of reference of the language identity is a way to describe of the axiology and the interpretation of the language consciousness in its public valences. The language agression is being followed and also the neoconcepts in the language consciousness in the media discourse. The context, the statistical and the cognitive method will be used for the goals of the project.
The project is part of the priorirty scientific direction of the Institute for Bulgarian language Cultural and Historical Linguistic Heritage of the bulgarians, Theoretical linguistic researches, Language culture.
Results: research papers, thematically connected articles and papers; bulletin.
