The notions Macedonian Man // Macedonian Woman // Macedonian People

In text linguistics, expressions are analyzed on three levels, intratextual, intertextual and metatextual level. Internal (intratextual) analysis concerns text structure and cohesion; intertextual – concerns relationships between different texts; metatextual – concerns an analysis of elements in a certain text which concern the same text, not the real or fictitious world the text addresses. Therefore, a form of scientific texts and discourses is mainly analyzed, not so much their content, historical events or their interpretation.

The notion of text competes with the notion of discourse, and the borderline between them is not clearly distinguished. And there is voluminous theoretical literature on this topic The most important mark differentiating text from discourse is the fact that the text is a finished product (according to Wilhelm von Humboldt – ergon), and the discourse is a process (energeia); The text, as an already shaped expression, is not interactive, and the discourse, according to the definition, is active. Scientific discourse on the notions of Macedonia and the Macedonian language, is primarily interactive since it requires a confrontation between different opinions of different authors. This trait is basic, and constitutive for the said speech act (speech genre).

Namely, it is about a more detailed analysis of the scientific discourse concerning the said notions: Macedonia and the Macedonian language and their conceptualization in scientific literature. The term conceptualization implies a process of the creation of a notion based on a general knowledge of the world and a definition of a given word, which arose in the discourse.

Macedonians

Macedonians are one of the Slavic peoples who live mainly in Macedonia (formerly a part of Yugoslavia), Greece and Bulgaria and in small number in Albania. Macedonians are mostly Orthodox Christians, although some of them are Muslim. However, for the majority of the population in Europe, the names Macedonia and Macedonian are not associated with the present-day Balkan republic. For them, Macedonia was once a powerful military empire of King Philip II and King Alexander the Great.