Modern Bulgarian Literature and the Turkish Loan Words. On Dervish' Karakondzhul (Evil Ghost) of Hasan Efraimov

HACI S., ZAFER Z.

BALKANISTIC FORUM, vol.2, pp.320-334, 2021 (ESCI, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 2
  • Publication Date: 2021
  • Doi Number: 10.37708/bf.swu.v30i2.19
  • Journal Name: BALKANISTIC FORUM
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Linguistic Bibliography
  • Page Numbers: pp.320-334
  • Keywords: Turkish Words, Bulgarian Language, Hasan Efraimov, Turkish cultural and linguistic environment
  • Ankara University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

To the Turkish words in the official Bulgarian Language today there is a negative attitude. The presence in the Bulgarian literary language of great number of lexemes of Turkish origin, which are not recognised from the big part of society, even specialists, as Turkish and which do not have Bulgarian counterparts, is not acknowledged as a valuable contribution to the basic lexical fund. The interest is focused on the usage of some Turkish words with pejorative meaning in journalistic and everyday speech. The function and the stylistic-emotional characteristics of the Turkish loan words in the present artistic texts are not researched.