Righteous people, sinners and repentance in the history of Bulgarian literature and today
Праведниците, грешниците и покаянието в историята на българската книжнина и днес

Author(s): Vanya Micheva
Subject(s): Anthropology, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Ethnohistory, Lexis, Semantics, Pragmatics, Historical Linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: medieval conceptual sphere; concepts; anthropology; attitudes of present-day Bulgarians
Summary/Abstract: This study presents the semantics and linguistic realizations of the concepts righteous people and sinners in different types of works from the 9th – 10th, 14th and 17th centuries. Repentance is analyzed as the basis of the Christian anthropological view in medieval Bulgarian literature. The modern processes of transformation of Christian values in the conditions of the pan-European cultural paradigm are studied by applying the survey research method. The most important conclusion from the three polls conducted with Bulgarians of different ages in 2022 is: sinners today are defined as people who commit crimes, they are most often called criminals and bad people, and they cannot atone for their guilt by repentance alone.

• Details
• Contents