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COSMOPOLITANISM AND THE MISSION OF THE HUMANITIES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026) Tihanov, Galin
In the first part of this article I explore various meanings of the word ‘cosmopolitanism’ and attempt to attain finer granularity by identifying two different strands within what has long been taken to be a unitary discourse. In the second part, I discuss the complex relationship (often also divergence) between the two types of cosmopolitanism – political and cultural – that I identify in the first part. I do so by analysing two foundational narratives of exile, the first of which bears on the humanities and their supreme capacity to cultivate creativity and freedom through estrangement. In the final part, I turn to the mission of the humanities today, which I happen to believe needs to be grounded, against the odds, in the cultivation and articulation of a cosmopolitan ethos.
ENGLISH LOANWORDS IN BULGARIAN FINANCIAL DISCOURSE: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY WITH A FRENCH COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026) Todorov, Blagovest
This study examines the influence of English loanwords on Bulgarian financial discourse using a corpus-based approach. The analysis draws on 168 financial media articles published between 2019 and 2022, comprising approximately 140,000 words. A total of 90 English-origin terms were identified and examined in terms of borrowing type, frequency, institutional incorporation and adaptation. The results show a clear predominance of relatively new borrowings and confirm English as the dominant source of financial terminology. Most terms are already integrated into official discourse and display minimal structural adaptation. A comparative perspective with French reveals a contrasting model characterized by stronger institutional regulation and preference for native equivalents. The findings highlight the role of sociolinguistic factors in shaping borrowing processes in financial communication.
EXPLORING NEGATION IN BULGARIAN YES-NO QUESTIONS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026) Dimitrova, Margarita
The present paper addresses negation in yes-no questions focusing on data from Bulgarian. Considering that Bulgarian yes-no questions are structures licensed by the interrogative particle li (Rudin 1986, Rudin et al. 1999, Izvorski 1995, Dimitrova 2020, among others), we more particularly concentrate on the relation between li, the negation marker and the licensing of Negative Concord. Based on the intriguing contrast concerning the blocking of Negative Concord and the behaviour of n-words, we will argue against the previous accounts claiming that negation in yesno questions is expletive, i.e. void of negative content. Rather, we suggest that the blocking of Negative Concord results from the occurrence of the interrogative particle li. In view of the Bulgarian data and building on previous analyses, namely Dimitrova (2020), we suggest that what prevents the licensing of n-words and moreover contributes to the characteristic positive bias these structures denote is verb movement to functional projections of the Left Periphery accounting for the speaker’s evaluations and kind of attitude (Ambar 2000, 2003, Yoon 2011, Giannakidou 2016).
THE CONCEPTUALISATION OF REBELLION IN BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026) Markou, Christina
The present study is devoted to the representations of the concept of REBELLION as a fragment of the Bulgarian linguistic worldview. The features embedded in the structure of the concept are revealed through the analysis of systematic linguistic data, including lexicographic definitions, as well as collocations with varying degrees of stability. In addition, materials from paremiology are employed as a source of ethnospecific and culturally significant information. The aim is to describe and reconstruct the stereotypical features of the concept that are firmly established in the collective linguistic consciousness of Bulgarians and widely operative in usage. In general terms, REBELLION is interpreted as an axiologically ambivalent concept which, in a number of contexts, is understood as a means of defending and affirming fundamental values such as freedom, justice, and human dignity.
Parameters of protostrongylid infection of terrestrial snails on pastures used by chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra balcanicа Bolkay, 1925) in the Western Rhodopes and Pirin Mountains
(Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski", 2026-06-20) Yankov, Yanko; Georgiev, Dian; Veleva, Petya; Kalcheva, Silviya; Arangelov, Simeon; Valchev, Kostadin
During the period 2018-2020, studies were conducted to determine the parameters of protostrongylid infectiоn in intermediate hosts in pastures in the Western Rhodopes and Pirin Mountains. Of the eleven snail species identified, four were registered as intermediate hosts of protostrongylids. On the studied pastures – Mugla, Zabardo and Vihren SE, protostrongylid larvae were detected in Xerolenta obvia at the first and second sites and in Xerolenta macedonica, Cattania polinscii and Cattania haberhaueri at the third site. The differences in the periods of maximum risk of infection observed in the present study and the data of other authors are due to the high altitudes at which the studied pastures are located. Тhe high values of certain infection parameters observed in summer are likely due to the significantly higher amount and frequency of precipitation in the mountainous areas, combined with favorable temperatures, which in a large part of the period are in the optimal range.