Ciclo di eventi “Conosci la Bulgaria?” 2017
Martedì 4 aprile
When thinking for a new language to learn, we normally would base the choice on the previous language knowledge and language competence we have. English, German, French, Spanish, Italian are among the foreign languages most often chosen by the students at different levels. From this ‘statistically-based’ point of view Bulgarian is rare and hence could be seen as an exotic one. The main goal of this lecture is to make a brief overview of some grammar features specific for Bulgarian such as definiteness and system of past tenses. Word order and dislocations also will be discussed. Considering that Indo-European languages have number of common morpho-syntactic features expressed by different structures or grammatical markers, Bulgarian may be called not ‘exotic’, but ‘lesser-known’.
TISHEVA Yovkа, PhD, Professor at the Department of Bulgarian Language, Faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski". She teaches courses in Modern Bulgarian language, Dynamics of Language Processes, Colloquial Bulgarian and Academic Communication for students from undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs at Faculty of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology and Faculty of Philosophy. Her research interests are in the areas of Bulgarian grammar (morphology and syntax), oral and written communication, pragmatics, language teaching and evaluation. She has written several books and articles on Bulgarian grammar, among others „Models for interpretation of complex sentences in modern Bulgarian“ (2000), „Structural models of interrogative sentences in Bulgarian“ (2004), "Pragmatics and Spoken Language" (2014), „Academic communication“ – with I. Mavrodieva (2010 and 2016). She has also written textbooks of Bulgarian for foreigners: "Colloquial Bulgarian: The Complete Course for Beginners" - with Kjetil Raa Hauge, Routledge, 2006; "A, B, C, D - Bulgarian for beginners" - with Elena Hadzieva, Nedka Garibova and Gergana Datcheva, Sofia University Press, 2011.
La conferenza sarà tenuta in inglese
The paper traces the durable presence of the East (especially of the „Turkish“ theme) in West European art (literature, opera, theatre, painting) and discusses the tendencies evident in the interpretation of the image of the „barbarian“ from the Middle Ages until the 19th c. It offers an analysis of the factors which participate in the dynamic appearance of „Turkish plots and characters“ and how they construct the philosophical and political ideas regarding slavery and freedom, fanaticism and tolerance, and political order, as well as the concepts of „native“ and „foreign“, „civilized“ and „barbarian“, „European“ and „Asian“. The presentation charters the significant transformations in rendering the „Turkish theme“ during the Age of Enlightenment, more specifically, in terms of how the art of painting consolidates the views of Europeans from Western Europe about the Orient, and of how Turkish fashion enters interiors, dress codes and everyday life.
NIKOLOVA Diana, PhD, is a lecturer in Ancient Greek and West European Literature at the Department of Comparative Literature, The Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv. She has graduated from Plovdiv University majoring in both Bulgarian and Russian Studies. Her publications include the book From Storytelling to Myths (published in 1997, co-authored with Svetla Cherpokova), the anthology Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry (2001), The Concept of Humanness in Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry /the Archaic and Classical periods/ (2010), as well as a number of articles and book chapters on ancient literature and West European art and literature. She has co-authored a range of textbooks and supplementary educational materials in literary studies. Research Interests: Mythology, Ancient Greek and Roman cultures, European Literature, Culturology, Comparative literature.
La conferenza sarà tenuta in russo. Sarà fornito servizio di interpretazione consecutiva a cura degli studenti interpreti.