Table of contents

Introduction        9

A.     Pragmatics of Discourse

I.     Basic Tendencies in the Linguistics of Discourse         13

II.     The Language of National and Cultural Discourses         18

1.     Discourses – Macedonian, Balkan and European Discourses – Definitions and Language Determinations         19
2.     General Types of Macedonian National and Cultural Discourses         20
3.     Subject to a Linguistic Analysis of Macedonian and Balkan Discourses         21

III.     On Codification of the Norm of the Contemporary Macedonian Language        23

IV.     Notions of Macedonian Man // Macedonian Woman and Macedonian Language in Scientific Discourse        37

1.     The notions Macedonian Man // Macedonian Woman // Macedonian People         37

a.     Macedonians        38
b.     Ancient Macedonians        41
c.     Macedonian Slavs        43
d.     Neighboring Nations’ Point of View        45

2.     The Notion of the Macedonian Language in Scientific Discourse         47

V.     The Macedonian Language versus other Languages in Macedonia        56

VI.     In the Circle of Politics and Linguistics        62

VII.     The Macedonian Language and the Framework Agreement (Рамковен договор)        64

VIII.     The Macedonian Language in Public Communication        66

1.     За македонцките работи (On Macedonian Matters) by Krste Petkov Misirkov i.e. How A Political Discourse is Created        66
2.     A Macedonian Discourse on Monuments and Statues         76
3.     Discourse on the Name of the State (1990–1999)        83

IX.     Forms of Address in Contemporary Macedonian Language        89

1.     Basic Forms of Address in the Macedonian Language        90
2.     Forms of Address in the Macedonian Public Discourse (based on  examples from parliamentary discourse)        102

B.     Language in the Discourse: Macedonian – Polish

I.     Some Causative Verbs in the Macedonian and Polish Languages        115

1.     On the Modal Verb Може // Móс in the Macedonian and the  Polish Language        130
2.     On the Category: Verb Distribution (function of prefixes pо-, pos-, poz- // по-, поис-, поиз- in the Polish and Macedonian languages)        135
3.     Peter Draganov Danilovich as a Linguist – In Light of the Text on Nasal Vowels in Modern Macedonian Slavic and Bulgarian Dialects        142
4.     Some Questions on the Sintactic – Semantic Dictionary of Verbs  in the Polish and the Macedonian Language        147

II.     Text in the Discourse        164

1.     Basic Connection Indicators in the Macedonian Language – Anaphoric Function of the Article        164
2.     Zhivko Chingo, On the Eve of the Maccabees – within the Circle of  Biblical Transpositions        169

III.     Functions of the Expression проклет да бидам (I’ll be damned) in the novel The Great Water by Zhivko Chingo        177

1.    “Foreign Speach” in the Novel The Great Water by Zhivko Chingo        177
2.     Formal and Dynamic Equivalence in the Polish Translation of Големата вода (The Great Water) by Zhivko Chingo         193

IV.     On the Metaillocutionary Power of Negation in Sugar Story by Slavko Janevski        198

V.     On Poetic Antonyms in the Poem Огнот не знае, пепелта не знае (Fire Does Not Know, Ashes Does Not Know) by Petre M. Andreevski        205

VI.     Games in Text in Расказ за шоа како се иишуваат раскази (Story about How Stories Are Written) by Vlada Urošević        212

VII. Instances of Deconstructivism in Zhivko Chingo’s Short Story Paskvelija        217

VIII. Variance in Тranslation (Ivo Andrić: На Дрини ћуприја, Мостот на Дрина, Most na Drinie, The Bridge on the Drina)        224

C.     Folklore

I.     Textual Categories of Time and Space in Folk Tales by Marko K. Cepenkov        233

II.    На тие зборои… (On those words…) – Place and Function of Prepositions in Folk Tales by Marko K. Cepenkov        239

III.    King Marko in the Folk Tales by Marko K. Cepenkov – Cognitive Definition        250

IV.    Linguistic Stereotypes in Polish and Macedonian Folk Texts by Oskar Kolberg and Marko K. Cepenkov        259

Annex        263

V.     On the Development and Needs Of Textology, That Is, On Scientific Editing in Macedonia Related to The Phototypic Edition of the  Anthology of the Madinov Brothers        264

Conclusion        267

Bibliography        268