In Bulgarian, numerals such as pet (‘five’) assign a special ‘count form’ feature to the noun: this assignment takes place across any number of intervening modifier phrases, thus forming a long-distance syntactic dependency. In colloquial speech, speakers often erroneously substitute the count form for regular plurals. Previous corpus and psycholinguistic… Read more“SPEAKERS’ ERRORS IN THE USE OF THE ‘COUNT FORM’ IN BULGARIAN NUMERAL PHRASES: POSSIBLE SOURCES OF THE DISTANCE EFFECT”
Category: Issue 4
CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR TRUST BUILDING IN VIRTUAL MULTICULTURAL TEAMS
The paper explores successful approaches to communication management of culturally diverse virtual teams. Virtual team leaders often face challenges when building trust among team members. The text presents how cultural diversity in teams influences communication practices, such as active listening, taking turns in conversations, negotiating agreements and following instructions from… Read more“CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR TRUST BUILDING IN VIRTUAL MULTICULTURAL TEAMS”
WOMEN’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE POLITICS OF POST-SOVIET GEORGIA
Human rights and liberty are one of the most essential values of democracy in modern society. The statement made at the international level that women possess half of the potential abilities and skills of humankind and their low involvement in the decision-making process is the loss of the entire society… Read more“WOMEN’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE POLITICS OF POST-SOVIET GEORGIA”
MODERNIZATION OF THE FORMS OF SCHOOL-FAMILY COOPERATION IN THE TERMS OF GENERAL INCLUSION
In the conditions of general inclusion, it is essential to modernize the content and forms of school-family cooperation, because by implementing inclusive education, the school faces new issues, including students and parents in school life, getting a full understanding of children and providing them with appropriate support. Our goal is… Read more“MODERNIZATION OF THE FORMS OF SCHOOL-FAMILY COOPERATION IN THE TERMS OF GENERAL INCLUSION”
VAGUE LANGUAGE AS POLITENESS-SCALE LEVELER IN OPRAH WINFREY’S SHOWS
The paper explores some pragmatic functions of vague markers from the perspective of politeness in formal and informal settings. The pragmatic value of vague markers lies in the capacity of making utterances more tentative and acceptable within the bounds of social and cultural norms and behavior. Vagueness serves as an… Read more“VAGUE LANGUAGE AS POLITENESS-SCALE LEVELER IN OPRAH WINFREY’S SHOWS”
IDENTITY MANIFESTATION IN REAL, VIRTUAL AND HYBRID COMMUNICATIVE ENVIRONMENTS
Identity has manifestations in many spheres: personal life, profession, society, hobby, and is made meaningful at different levels. Identity can be personal, national, European, professional, gender, religious, political, ideological, etc. The dynamic development of the Internet, social networks, platforms, software and applications create, on the one hand, conditions for quick… Read more“IDENTITY MANIFESTATION IN REAL, VIRTUAL AND HYBRID COMMUNICATIVE ENVIRONMENTS”
Implementing the Flipped Classroom Approach in Teaching Writing to Young Learners of English as a Foreign Language
Flipped classroom instruction is a methodological approach which is becoming more and more popular in the recent years due to its consistent implementation in various educational contexts. A consistent number of researchers have focused their attention on investigating its effectiveness in the teaching of English as a foreign language to… Read more“Implementing the Flipped Classroom Approach in Teaching Writing to Young Learners of English as a Foreign Language”
The Interplay between Semantic Fluency and Learner Creativity in L2 Acquisition
Creativity in L2 acquisition is an issue which has received considerable attention in domains related to the study of individual learner differences, lexical item memorisation and retrieval, bilingualism, teaching strategies. Despite that the interdependence of L2 creativity and verbal production of young English language learners has not received considerable attention… Read more“The Interplay between Semantic Fluency and Learner Creativity in L2 Acquisition”