Etnické koncepty v jazyku (na bulharskom a slovenskom materiáli)

Mária Košková

Ethnic concepts represent an indispensable part of the linguistic view of the world which is a typical feature of each language reflecting the cognitive, evaluative, and interpretative treatment of the extralingual reality from the point of view of the national culture. The essay highlights the peculiarities of the Bulgarian and Slovak ethocentrisms and their reflections in language. It offers a broad survey of the linguistic representations of the interethnic relationships between Bulgarians and Slovaks. The gathered lexical, phraseological and paremiological material reveals how ethno-stereotypes become manifested in both languages and how they participate in the formation of various linguistic elements. In ethnonyms and their derivatives, the author identifies implicit vehicles of the stereotypical information. Phrasemes and paremies, on the other hand, represent its explicit vehicles. The achieved findings attest to the fact that each language – due to its historical, social, and cultural experience – exhibits a peculiar form of creativity when describing interethnic relationships.