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BULGARIAN SPEECH ETIQUETTE FROM THE 3RD QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY AS EXEMPLIFIED IN “A GRAMMAR OF THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE WITH EXERCISES AND ENGLISH-BULGARIAN DICTIONARY” (1859) BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY CHARLES MORSE

VOL. 63, BOOK 1, PART A, 2025, pp. 66 – 79 Full text (Bg)

Author: Maria Mitskova

Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv

Abstract

As an impartial testimony from a foreigner regarding the condition of the Bulgarian literary language and the development of its stylistic system, A Gram-mar of the Bulgarian Language with Exercises and English-Bulgarian Dictionary (1859) by the American missionary Charles Morse provides a critical account of the evolution of spoken literary Bulgarian during the third quarter of the 19th cen-tury and reflects the path of the formation of Bulgarian speech etiquette. Morse’s classification of etiquette expressions for various life situations offers a vivid and detailed depiction of the Bulgarian language in its practical use.

Key words: Charles Morse, Bulgarian grammars in English, Bulgarian speech etiquette, American protestant mission in Bulgaria, 3rd quarter of the 19th century

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