CONTENTS

BALKAN TRENDS

BOIAN VALTCHEV Let’s Take off the Foreign Spectacles	рage 7
KIRIL TOPALOV Rigas and Rakovski between “The Byzantine Dream” and the New Era	page 10
KATYA STANEVA Acoustics of the Voice That “Thunders and Rumbles”: The Great Guilts of the Great Powers, According to Hristo Botev	page 22
SVETLANA STOYCHEVA About the Dissimilarities and the Identities in the Balkans	page 30
GORDANA ĐERIĆ The Sexual in the Ethnical: An Addition to the Serbian Imagology	page 36
PETAR VODENICHAROV Are the Balkan “Literary Catastrophes” Successful	page 54
GRIGORIY VENEDIKTOV About Y. Iv. Venelin’s Trip to Bulgaria	page 69
NADKA NIKOLOVA Europeans on the Bulgarian Language during the Ottoman Rule	page 79
BOIAN VALTCHEV Education and Development of the Philology Thinking among the Balkan Peoples during the Bulgarian Renaissance	page 98
SAVA HEŘMAN Language and Ideology	page 109
SAVA HEŘMAN The Beginning of the Bulgarian Language and Its Relations to the Neighboring Balkan Languages up to the End of 19th Century	page 112
SAVA HEŘMAN The Process of Stabilization of the Balkan Languages	page 115
SAVA HEŘMAN Theory on the Balkan Languages in 19th C. (Related to Vuk Karađić’s Work)	page 119
BOYKA BACHVAROVA About the “Funny” Bulgarian Proverbs and Sayings	page 126
KIRIL TODOROV Traditions and Present	page 138
GEORGI MITRINOV About the Graphic Peculiarities of the So Called “Pomac’s Language” in Greece	page 141
RADOST ZHELEZAROVA Anton Bezenšek – a Slovenian in Bulgaria	page 150

BULGARIAN LANGUAGE ISLANDS ON THE BALKANS

ISKRA LIKOMANOVA The Bulgarian-Catholic Dialect of the Banat-Bulgarians in Serbia	page 155
JOVKA TISHEVA About Some Syntax Peculiarities of the Banat Dialect	page 163
NICHKA BECHEVA Foreign Language Elements in the Dialect of the Bulgarians in Banat	page 172

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KONSTANTIN POPOV Each Language Is an Intellectual Universe	page 178
EVGENIA VUCHEVA Program Theses on Linguistics of the Speaking	page 182
JULIANA STOYANOVA Individual Variations and Language Specifics in Mastering of a First Language	page 194
BILYANA BORISOVA The Poet-Philosopher: Philosophic Bases of Poetic Experience	page 216

ANNIVERSARIES

MIHAIL VIDENOV Sava Heřman, 80 Years

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LITERARY REVIEW

About „Вицът като езиков и културен феномен. Немско-български паралели и контрасти. Преводимост“ from Ana Dimova	page 229
About „Образи на българската памет. Историята, поборниците, записките“ from Tsvetan Rakyovski	page 233

CHRONICLES

VESELA STOIMENOVA, NADEZHDA STALJANOVA An Anniversary Scientific Conference	page 238
SABINA PAVLOVA A Speech on the Speech	page 241
AEMILIAN NIKOLOV Authors from the Balkans Gather in Sofia	page 242
DECHKA CHAVDAROVA The Interior through the Eyes of the Humanitarians	page 243

IN MEMORIAM

Elena Georgieva (1931–2006)

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About the Autors