Vanina Sumrova, "New feminitives in Bulgarian", published by the Bulgarian Academy of Science “Prof. Marin Drinov”, Sofia 2018, pp. 196. (Ванина Сумрова, Новите феминални названия в българския език, Издателство на БАН „Проф. Марин Дринов“, София 2018, cc. 196.)

Vanina Sumrova, New feminitives in Bulgarian, published by the Bulgarian Academy of Science “Prof. Marin Drinov”, Sofia 2018, pp. 196. (Ванина Сумрова, Новите феминални названия в българския език, Издателство на БАН „Проф. Марин Дринов“, София 2018, cc. 196.)This investigation by Vanina Ivanova Sumrova is the first independent and comprehensive study of a lexico-semantic group of neologisms in Bulgarian: new terms denoting women – known as feminitives – that have appeared within the twenty-five years since 1989. More than 1,400 terms are covered; single-word terms, as well as open or closed two-element compounds (of the type biznes sekretarka or bg mama), some of them until now unattested to in studies or dictionaries. The terms are analysed from several perspectives: morphology, semantics, stylistics, codification, sociolinguistics, social culturology, lexicography, and possibilities for future development; all contributing to the multifaceted character of the study. Vanina Sumrova, Nowe feminatywa  w języku bułgarskim, Wydawnictwo Bułgarskiej Akademii Nauk „Prof. Marin Drinov”, Sofia 2018, ss. 196. (Ванина Сумрова, Новите феминални названия в българския език, Издателство на БАН „Проф. Марин Дринов“, София 2018, cc. 196.)Recenzowana tu monografia jest pierwszym – powstałym ponad ćwierć wieku po 1989 roku – i kompletnym studium obejmującym nowe feminatywa w języku bułgarskim. Ilustruje i obejmuje egzemplifikacją ponad 1400 przykładów, które pozwoliły ukazać szerokie spektrum zjawisk dotyczących jednostek feminatywnych. Rzetelny sposób prezentacji materiału, a także przejrzysty język stanowią dodatkowy walor monografii, która z pewnością przedstawia cenne naukowe źródło informacji nie tylko dla językoznawców - bułgarystów i slawistów, ale także dla wszystkich zainteresowanych poprawną komunikacją językową Bułgarów (studentów, dziennikarzy, pasjonatów i zwykłych użytkowników języka). To także dobry materiał dla socjologów i badaczy współczesnego feminizmu

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