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Traditional Turcish music and collective singing
Get PDFThe report presents characteristics of traditional Turkish music and the late entry into Turkish culture of choral singing, under Western influence. It commented the history and evolution of performing and educational institutions in Turkey, parallels between instrumental and vocal music, the views and contributions of Turkish musicians. The information is drawnfrom various sources, but is presented in author’s „Puzzle“. It also acquaints with professional attitudes and personal experience of Mete Gökçe as a choral conductor and pedagogue
The new documents about Dimitar Nenov (1901-1953)
Get PDFThe text presents briefly the contents and reveals details of the original autobiographical document authored by the composer Dimitar Nenov. Тhis extensive work was discovered in thepersonal archives of the musician Mirko Karavasilev (1904-1966, Shumen, fund 1068, op. 1) in the beginning of 2018. The content of the autobiography was completely unknown. This text focuses on the personal diary, will, and correspondence of Dimitar Nenov. This newly discovered autobiographical document helps demystify questions and misconceptions about the personal and creative evolution of Dimitar Nenov and cast a doubt on the myths, legends and misunderstandings of his persona conceived over the years
The Director General of The Bulgarian National Radio and The Case of The Temporary Suspension of The National Programme "Horizon"
Get PDFThe article comments on the administrative law issues related to the unprecedented suspension of the distribution of the national program “Horizon” of the Bulgarian National Radio on 13.9.2019, which caused the early termination of the mandate of the General Director of the media due to a gross violation of the principle of media services. As the person responsible for the programming policy of the public media service provider, the General Director is obliged to guarantee the citizens‘ right to information. Failure to fulfil this public duty is grounds for his removal from office
English Mnemonic Lexicon: Constituent Structure and Verbalization Potential
No full textThis paper presents a study of the system of lexical devices used by English speakers to verbalize their personal memory experiences. The approach presented in the paper presupposes inclusion of non-narrative structures into the spectrum of language forms conveying mnemonic meanings and extends the latter so as to encompass the meanings of encoding, storage, retrieval and loss. The research is based on the hypothesis that lexical units expressing memory-related meanings in English constitute a specifically organized system. A variety of communicative contexts representing mnemonic situations are analyzed as to develop a typology of memory verbalizers in English, estimate their functional potential and role in objectifying personal memory experiences on the lexical level. The results confirm the original hypothesis and suggest that mnemonic lexicon as a linguistic reflection of the mnemonic faculty is an important and largely understudied element of the language – memory system
Traumas of Roots and Extinction in the 20th Century Literature of Empire: The Mirror Principle in Marguerite Duras' India Cycle (1964-71) and Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi (1940)
No full textThis article comparatively analyses Marguerite Duras' India Cycle and Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi. A Mirror Principle centres on 'emptiness', synthesising elements of Marxism and Buddhism. A new optic is created for understanding 1930s Indian nationalism, including Dalit and national leader Ambedkar, Tagorian 'composite culture', Mohammed Iqbal, and Islam and gender in northern India. The Mirror Principle juxtaposes Heideggerian 'repetition' and Marxian 'dialectics' as divergent anti-colonial paths. Duras and Ali are linked by a common Proustian problematic of memory and ephemerality. They revolutionize the Proustian tradition to create a new literary genre in oneiric socialism. The article analyses trauma, in the French Resistance and the 1857 rebellion, and literary reconstructions of traditional roots in their wake, with differing nation-making ramifications
Differences in Research Abstracts written in Arabic, French, and English
No full textThe proliferation of publications, mainly the digital ones, makes it necessary to write well-structured abstracts which help readers gauge the relevance of articles and thus attract a wider readership. This article investigates whether abstracts written in three languages, namely Arabic, French and English, follow the same patterns within or across languages. It compares 112 abstracts in the areas of (applied) linguistics. The English abstracts include 36 research article (RA) abstracts from an Arab journal mostly written by non-natives and 10 by native speakers from British universities. Those produced in French are 36 divided into two sets, 23 from North African journals and the remaining 13 from French journals. The Arabic abstracts consist of 30 abstracts, 15 from North African journals mainly from Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco and the other 15 from the Middle East with a focus on Qatari and Saudi texts. Results emanating from the frequency of moves show that the abstracts written in English by natives and non-natives and those produced in Arabic by Middle Eastern writers show conformity with the existing conventions of abstract writing in English. However, those from North Africa, be they Arabic or French, do not share any specific patterns which can be attributed to the language in which they are written. Further research is needed to check whether abstract writing is part of the academic writing curriculum in these two latter languages
It Will be Hard after Medea
No full textA blitz interview with Sneshina Petrova, award-winning actress and university professor, on her recent theatre and social project “Medea.â
Jokha al-Harthi’s Stories
No full textShort introduction to Jokha al-Harthi, her writing and the cultural context she comes from by the translator, Dr. Nedelya Kitaeva, who is teaching Arabic language and Culture at the New Bulgarian University