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Legal Protection of Vulnerable Persons
Get PDFIn this article I discuss the issue how the law should define the vulnerable persons and whether the approach should be categorial or contextual. I argue that it is impossible in advance to make a list of all categories of vulnerable persons or groups in all possible legal contexts and for this reason the theory of vulnerable subject should not be ignored. The principles of rule of law, equality and human rights protection require for considering the specific situation of vulnerable persons in all administrative and court procedures so that they will benefit from more extensive and reinforced procedural protection of their rights. Such a procedural standard needs to be applied everywhere whether or not the legal framework provides for special statute of the persons from vulnerable groups, as in the Asylum and Refugees Act
The Actual Benefit Gaining and Presumptive Impoverishment of the Impoverished Person in the Hypothesis of Usage of Another’s Property in the Meaning of Article 59 of the Obligations and Contracts Act
Get PDFThe present article examines the problems arising in one of the specific hypotheses of the general claim for unjust enrichment within the meaning of Art. 59 of the Obligations and Contracts Act. In the predominant part of the practice, the courts do not examine in detail the question of whether the impoverished plaintiffs had the intention at all and whether they would objectively receive the property benefits appropriated by the unauthorized person using the foreign item. In this way the practice literally creates an “objective” unjustified enrichment in the presence of usage of someone else‘s property without legal grounds and an established right of ownership of the plaintiff. Further developing this scenario leads to a situation in which the court does not examine whether the plaintiff actually suffered impoverishment, despite the explicit requirement of the norm of Art. 59, para. 1 of the Obligations and Contracts Act for the presence of such as part of the elements of the factual composition of the norm. The indicated tendency of the judicial practice will be the examined subject of analysis in the following article
'My Name to me a Sadness Wears': Self and Other According to 'Diary by E. B. B.'
No full textThis paper dwells on the issue of selfhood in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Diary (1831 – 1832). It explores individuation against three major presences in the poetess’s life: her father (and family), Hugh Stuart Boyd, and literature. The employed strategy of research includes a phenomenological (interspersed with feminist touches) focus on select excerpts from the Diary which reveal the writer’s concern for Self as the recognition of the priority of a precursory Other. Observations are made on the limits of human perception, time and space as human variables, the ontological essence of interpretation, and memory as a premise for cognizing life as care. A rare example of prose-fiction in the poetess’s oeuvre, her diary could be read as an instance of simultaneous self-nullification and self-affirmation, which offers possibilities for a dialectical definition of female genius as dialogue through narrative
Public image in the digital space – politicians and presence on social media during Bulgarian parliamentarian elections; November 2021
No full textHow Bulgarian politicians did use social media during the 3rd elections for 2021 for the Bulgarian Parliament and how they did communicate to their public? What new channels they used and how people reacted
Framing the Identity of an Ideal Primary School Teacher of English
No full textThe article presents a study that aimed to examine how primary school teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) framed the identity of an ideal EFL teacher. The specific research aim was to identify and classify frames associated with the identity of an EFL primary school teacher in the corpus of reflective essays of approximately 1000 words about an ideal EFL teacher in Norwegian primary school contexts written by 32 Norwegian in-service primary school EFL teachers. It was hypothesised that the participants’ framing would be reflective of the identity of an ideal EFL teacher in Norway. The corpus of the participants’ essays was analysed in accordance with the framing methodology developed by Entman (1993) and Dahl (2015). The results of the framing analysis indicated that the participants in the study framed the identity of an ideal EFL teacher via frames associated with future ideal selves, ought-to selves, the identity of their former EFL teachers, and the identity of an ideal EFL teacher as a fictional character. The study implications would be beneficial to pre-service and current in-service EFL teachers and teacher-trainers alike, who could treat the results as a collective “portrait†of an ideal EFL teacher
Evaluating the Performance of a New Text Rhythm Analysis Tool
No full textThe paper assesses and evaluates the performance of the ProseRhythmDetector (PRD) Text Rhythm Analysis Tool. The research is a case study of 50 English and 50 Russian fictional texts (approximately 88,000 words each) from the 19th to the 21st century. The paper assesses the PRD tool accuracy in detecting stylistic devices containing repetition in their structure such as diacope, epanalepsis, anaphora, epiphora, symploce, epizeuxis, anadiplosis, and polysyndeton. The article ends by discussing common errors, analysing disputable cases and highlighting the use of the tool for author and idiolect identification
Moroccan Students' Attitudes Towards Local and Foreign Languages: The Role of Self-Directed and Language Policy Forces
No full textThs article contributes to the hot debate on language preferences and choice at schools and society at large in Morocco from an empirical perspective. It investigates the Moroccan students' attitudes towards the languages they use in their daily interactions and those that are widely used in the Moroccan education system and attempts to explain whether these attitudes are driven by intrinsic forces or by the language policy orientations set by decision makers. To do so, 1,477 respondents belonging to different school levels and disciplines completed a survey about their frequency of use and mastery of languages, as well as their preferences of language use in the future. Findings show that Moroccan students have positive attitudes towards all languages and would like to use foreign languages for instrumental purposes. They also show that such positive attitudes do not depend on the level of mastery of these languages, nor on their use as mediums of instruction or communication. The findings imply that attitudes towards languages in Morocco are rooted in factors beyond the official policy orientations
After Medea, Or What Is in Common between Magic and Translation
No full textA blitz interview with Georgi Gochev, classical scholar and translator, on his recent work on a new Bulgarian version of Euripides’ Medea done especially for Snezhina Petrova’s socially engaged staging of the ancient tragedy