The orthography of every language including the Macedonian is a set of rules that presents the language in written form. Bearing in mind that the language reflects all phenomena of the social life, it is clear that the orthography should constantly be complemented and renewed, explained and precised in order to address the needs of its users. The new edition of the Orthography of the Macedonian language (2015) brings in changes, supplements and provides accurate information in all of the chapters of the last edition of the Orthography (1998). This represents a solid base for improving and equaling the written practice, especially regarding the orthographic rules of the compound nouns. The aim of the paper is to analyze some rules for connected writing (without hyphen) of the compound nouns in the Orthography from 1998 regarding their preciseness, clearness and possibility for double interpretation. These rules are compared with the same rules in the new edition from the Orthography ...

The orthography provides the basis for formation of a written text and its correct implementation guaranties the stability of the standard norm. At the same time, the development of society implies development of the language, because it has to address the needs of its users. New words permanently enter the language, so the orthography has to provide explanations and precise rules that will regulate their correct use. Thus, the orthography should constantly be updated with new examples and rules, which will contribute to decrease the possibility for ambiguous orthographic solutions. After almost a period of 20 year of using the same edition of the Orthography from 1998, it is a pleasure to announce the presence of the new edition of the Orthography, published in 2015. This edition is undoubtedly important for all speakers of the Macedonian language, especially for the Macedonian linguistic experts. Taking into account that the orthography of the compound nouns evokes many dilemmas i...

Poetry translation is considered the most challenging type of translation. Translators are faced with many dilemmas as they work on several different levels simultaneously in an attempt to preserve in the target language as many features of a particular poem as possible. This is not an easily achievable aim, especially, if the poems are products of a poetic mastermind who skilfully juggled with a range of poetic features. The study at hand aims to analyse the treatment that the poetry of one such poetic genius, Gane Todorovski, received when rendered from Macedonian into English. More precisely, given the profound differences between Macedonian and English, the study investigates how specific poetic features such as rhyme, rhythm, sound, tropes, word choice and word order have been handled in the translation. It also tries to provide answers to several common translators’ dilemmas that obligatorily emerge in the process of poetry translation. The study shows that the translators of ...

Abstract: Poetry translation is considered the most challenging type of translation. Translators are faced with many dilemmas as they work on several different levels simultaneously in an attempt to preserve in the target language as many features of a particular poem as possible. This is not an easily achievable aim, especially, if the poems are products of a poetic mastermind who skilfully juggled with a range of poetic features. The study at hand aims to analyse the treatment that the poetry of one such poetic genius, Gane Todorovski, received when rendered from Macedonian into English. More precisely, given the profound differences between Macedonian and English, the study investigates how specific poetic features such as rhyme, rhythm, sound, tropes, word choice and word order have been handled in the translation. It also tries to provide answers to several common translators’ dilemmas that obligatorily emerge in the process of poetry translation. The study shows that the translators of Gane Todorovski’s poetry have been fully aware of the poetic qualities of the original poems and have made every effort to preserve them in the translation, although some losses were practically unavoidable.

In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding or composition is the word-formation that creates compound lexemes (the other word-formation process being derivation). Compounding or Word-compounding refers to the faculty and device of language to form new words by combining or putting together old words. In other words, compound, compounding or word-compounding occurs when a person attaches two or more words together to make them one word. The meanings of the words interrelate in such a way that a new meaning comes out which is very different from the meanings of the words in isolation. The contrast of the words between English to Albanian: Bus driver in English compound words in Albanian simple word (shofer ose shofer i autobusit) or housekeeper – amлvise; schoolbook-libлr shkolle; classroom – klasл; homework-detyrл shtлpia.

The cave in the collective consciousness is closely associated with the earliest shelters and origin of man, the memory of which causes permanent return to these earth wombs. The utilization of the deep cave galleries has provoked in the primitive man various magical ideas and scenes. Inspired by the phenomenal formations and reliefs, his mind has built different images that sometimes he further developed with drawings and engravings. It can barely be found an answer to the question when the cave was sacralized. In the animistic consciousness of prehistoric man it was part of the complex essence of spiritualized nature. Moreover, the cave had special significance because it was recreating most figuratively the human-nature interactions and originated the illusion of passing into another dimension related to ancestors.

The core subject of this White book is the clarification of the language dispute and the Bulgarian origins of the language that is nowadays used in the Republic of North Macedonia. The linguistic and historical proofs that we provide form the very basis of this study. We trust the study will be instrumental in building your informed opinion about the Bulgarian-Macedonian issue and in defending the just side.

Abstract Theatre pedagogy is a rapidly developing area of research in teaching. The concept originates from the parallels between a child’s symbolic play and an actor’s playing experience. However, dramatic activity and child play differ in intention, quality of spontaneity, practice and demonstration. Teacher's guidance is crucial in transforming quality of dramatic experience, awareness and meaning into creative classroom drama. Distance devices, which a qualified teacher uses, are essential for reaching the curriculum goals through the very important phase of every dramatic activity – reflection. With a teacher's guidance symbolic play can transform into creative drama and becomes a meaningful learning experience for students. Keywords: theatre pedagogy, symbolic play, creative drama, creativity, holistic teaching.