Prof. Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova, DSc.
Institute for Bulgarian Language
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
https://doi.org/10.53656/for21.47star
Absract. When understanding the complex social processes in the Principality of Bulgaria at the end of the 19th century, the medieval legal literary-linguistic heritage was realized as a foundation for the creation of an academic style in legal science after the Bulgarian Revival. The article aims to analyze how this occurs in the personal practice of P. Odzhakov, in particular in his selective excerpts from
Old Bulgarian laws (1892), how the Bulgarian legal terminology develops from the Middle to the Modern Ages. It focusses on translation decisions of the jurist in comparison with the Greek originals, the Old Bulgarian representatives, as well as other modern languages.
Keywords: academic juridical discourse; Old Bulgarian laws