Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2020

Embargo Period

11-13-2021

Publication Title

Journal of International and Intercultural Communication

Abstract

By using cultural discourse analysis and ethnography, naturally occurring talk and interviews were examined for local constructions of “Bulgarian-ness” in order to formulate explicit and implicit cultural propositions about being “Bulgarian,” and cultural premises about being (“Bulgarian-ness” as problematic) and emotion (anger, frustration) as connected. This article illustrates the notion of the phrase as a local cultural symbol within Bulgarian discourse that evokes deep cultural meanings for a way of being (“Bulgarian-ness” and the West/East dichotomy), emotions (frustration, hopelessness), and a social world (the “Bulgarian situation”) as continuously negotiated in relation to conceptualizations of “Balkanism.”

Volume

14

Issue

2

First Page

128

Last Page

145

DOI

10.1080/17513057.2020.1760919

ISSN

1751-3065

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of International and Intercultural Communication on May 13, 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17513057.2020.1760919.

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This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.

Nadezhda Sotirova (2021) “Good job, but Bulgarian”: Identifying “Bulgarianness” through cultural discourse analysis, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 14:2, 128-145, DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2020.1760919

It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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