Andreana Eftimova<\/strong><\/p>\n Sofia University<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/bel2025-6-1D<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract.<\/strong> The article discusses the influence of the language and style of the texts of the labels in an exhibition on the communicative and educational goals of the cultural institution. The content and language of the texts can attract a wider non-specialized audience and include more citizens in the communicative interaction. For this purpose, the institution should offer new narrative possibilities and prepare texts in plain or easy language. The research is carried out using the methods of content analysis, linguistic and stylistic analysis, the case study method and a questionnaire survey. The results show that the prepared dialogic labels with an educational purpose are a good example of texts in accessible language intended for a wide audience.<\/p>\n Keywords<\/em>: plain language; cultural institutions; educational potential; communication<\/p>\n SEE MORE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Teodora G. Ilieva<\/strong><\/p>\n Faculty of Education <\/em><\/p>\n Trakia University - Stara Zagora (Bulgaria)<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/bel2025-6-2T<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract.<\/strong> The manuscript \u201cVidritsa. Memories. Notes. Correspondence\u201d (1894 \u2013 1904) has been the subject of several literary, cultural-historical, and ethnographic studies, but linguistic studies of the genre-heterogeneous text are lacking. This motivates the need for an analysis of the rich lexical layers, phraseological units, syntactic construction, phonetic spelling and morphological paradigm used by Father M. Kanchev.<\/p>\n The purpose of this publication is to isolate several of the spelling principles characteristic of the writer; to distinguish the phonetic and phonological features that individualize its language; to highlight the normative, dialectal and sociolectal categorical characteristics of the morphological system. The focus is on the features of the Stara Zagora urban speech in the period around the Liberation of Bulgaria.<\/p>\n The study is conducted on the original text, contained in a manuscript (fonds 382, archive unit 1, pp. 1 \u2013 1016), which is kept in the National Library \u201cSt. Cyril and st. Methodius\u201d.<\/p>\n A partial linguistic comparison is being made with the idiolect of another Stara Zagora writer \u2013 Hristo Shivarov \u2013 author of \u201cNotes on the Stara Zagora\u2019s Uprising\u201d (fonds 141K, op. 1, archival unit 1) from the State Archives \u2013 Stara Zagora.<\/p>\n Keywords<\/em>: priest Mincho Kanchev; manuscript \u201cVidritsa\u201d; Hristo Shivarov; phonetic system; morphological paradigm; sociolect<\/p>\n SEE MORE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Vanya Ivanova<\/strong><\/p>\n University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria<\/em><\/p>\n Gergana Petkova<\/strong><\/p>\n Medical University \u2013 Plovdiv, Bulgaria<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/bel2025-6-3V<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract<\/strong>.<\/strong> This article explores how idiomatic expressions featuring the colours black and white convey meaning, emotions, and cultural symbolism in Bulgarian and English. These colours evoke a broad range of connotations, from purity and success to negativity, mystery, and hardship. The study classifies these idioms into groups based on their meanings \u2013 positive, negative, neutral, or contradictory \u2013 and examines both the similarities and differences between the two languages. While Bulgarian and English share some idioms with overlapping meanings (e.g., \u201e\u0447\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043d \u043f\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0440\u201c and \u201cblack market\u201d), others highlight unique cultural perspectives and linguistic creativity. Bulgarian idioms often possess a poetic, metaphorical tone, whereas English expressions tend to be more direct, practical, or linked to specific contexts, such as history, trade, or everyday life. These differences reflect the interaction between universal human experiences and distinct cultural influences in shaping language. By analysing these vivid phrases, the article reveals how language captures cultural attitudes towards colour and the emotional nuances associated with them. The analysis ultimately provides insights into the shared human tendency to express meaning through colour symbolism while highlighting the cultural specificities that make each language distinctive.<\/p>\n Keywords<\/em>: Idiomatic expressions, colour symbolism, Bulgarian language, English language, black and white idioms, cultural differences\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n SEE MORE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Andiana Spasova<\/strong><\/p>\n Institute for Literature\nBulgarian Academy of Sciences \nSofia, Bulgaria<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/bel2025-6-4A<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract<\/strong>. The article is devoted to the problem of the alternativity of philological and historiographical discourses, considering both the Revival and the contemporary context. The understanding that the phenomena of literary history shape current receptive attitudes (H. R. Jauss) becomes the basis for some of the claims made. The research paper will consistently develop the theme of teaching approach and dialogicity in university classrooms in Bulgarian Philology as a potential micro-history. The question of the new type of contemporary models of reading and interpretation of names, texts and events from the Bulgarian literary and historical canon will be raised again. The figure of the reader in the 21st century, occupying a dynamic and multidirectional place, is untutored by literary-historical metanarratives (J.-F. Lyotard) and adaptive to rearrangements in the social and cultural structure.<\/p>\n Keywords:<\/em> Bulgarian literary history; Revival culture; student notes as macrohistory; teaching approaches; new generations of readers; educational resources<\/p>\n SEE MORE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n (Research on two works from 1941 \u2013 \u201cFailed Revolutionaries\u201d by Slavcho Krasinski and \u201cIn the Pub of Bai Tanasa\u201d by Delcho Delchev)<\/p>\n Viktoria Viktorova<\/strong><\/p>\n Sofia University<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/bel2025-6-5V<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract. <\/strong>This text examines the collection of short stories[1]<\/a> \u201cFailed Revolutionaries\u201d by Slavcho Krasinski and \u201cIn the Pub of Bai Tanasa. Letters from the City to the Village on Contemporary Topics\u201d by Delcho Delchev, which were published in the same year (1941) and subsequently entered the List of Fascist Literature Subject to Seizure<\/em>according to the XII Decree of the Council\nof Ministers of October 6, 1944. The purpose of the study is to trace the public\nmood towards communist ideology \u2013 the new force on the political scene a few\nyears before it took power. The idea is not simply to compare two texts from the\nsame year of publication, but to explicate two different views that are united by their common anti-communist intuitions and have the courage to openly expose the falsehood behind the ideological clich\u00e9s that have already begun to dominate. Krasinski, through the classical narrative genre of the story, and Delchev, through the fictionalization of the paraliterary epistolary genre, equally convincingly expose the \u201cbelievers in miracles\u201d \u2013 those who carry foreign ideological and political systems, not particularly suitable for our way of life, language and morality. Both authors believe that the Bulgarian at his core is not an ideological person, but a practical, common-sense person, turned to the \u201chere\u201d and the \u201cnow\u201d, to his everyday life. The present text is motivated by an unexplored possibility \u2013 to see how, through the means of humor, irony and vernacular language, the two authors formulate an open criticism of the pseudo-revolutionary pathos, socialist rhetoric and faith in the bright future, immediately before it was formalized as the correct, and a little later as the only method of socialist realism. Thus, the present analysis will seek an answer to the question of how the two works from 1941. they dispel ideological clich\u00e9s even before they become all-powerful and proclaim the right to think and create, regardless of the specific socio-political conjunctures, which, however, doomed them to total oblivion after 1944, continuing to this day.<\/p>\n Keywords<\/em>: oblivion; prohibition; ideology; socialism; skepticism<\/p>\n SEE MORE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Margarita <\/strong>Krasimirova <\/strong>Hristova<\/strong><\/p>\n Episkop Konstantin Preslavski Shumen University <\/em><\/p>\n College \u2013 Dodrich, Bulgaria <\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/bel2025-6-6M<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract. <\/em><\/strong>This article focuses on three matriculation texts through the prism of a particularly relevant topic \u2013 self-identification. The necessity of exploring this topic is motivated by several crucial needs of young people related to maturity and self-affirmation. We believe that literature lessons in upper secondary education provide an excellent opportunity for reflection on this subject and associated challenges. Therefore, we offer a range of methodological guidelines and ideas.<\/p>\n Talev\u2019s novel The Iron Oil Lamp, Smirnenski\u2019s satirical short story The Tale of the Stairs, and Paskov\u2019s novella Ballad of Georg Henich can be informally grouped into a new thematic core, as they present comparable interpretations of identity by a number of criteria. It is directly related to finding purpose, meaning, and direction in life and, in this sense, is an existential question. Each of these works contributes to the universal cultural discourse on who we are, where we come from, and where we are going.<\/p>\n Keywords<\/em>: identity; literary education; reflection; interpretation; methodology; intertextuality<\/p>\n SEE MORE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Irena Dimova-Gencheva<\/strong><\/p>\n University \u201cProf. Dr. Asen Zlatarov\u201d \u2013 Burgas (Bulgaria)<\/em><\/p>\n Georgi Genchev<\/strong><\/p>\n PGMEE \u2013 Burgas (Bulgaria)<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/bel2025-6-7IG<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract.<\/strong> The proposed article examines high school students\u2019 ability to differentiate between a text generated by artificial intelligence and a literary work by Bulgarian author Petya Dubarova. The survey was conducted among 8th, 9th, and 11th graders at the Vocational High School of Mechano-Electrical Engineering and Electronics in Burgas, using Dubarova\u2019s poem \u201cExpelled from Class\u201d as the original text. Two additional texts produced by two versions of ChatGPT were also included in the study. The article provides a brief overview of the knowledge students should acquire from studying artistic style, which forms the basis for presenting the expected and achieved results of comparing the original text with the AI-generated texts.<\/p>\n Keywords<\/em>: poetry; artificial intelligence; author; artistic style; survey<\/p>\n SEE MORE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Georgi Toshev <\/strong><\/p>\n Sofia University<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/bel2025-6-8T<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract. <\/strong>Cinemapedagogy is an innovative approach that involves the use of audiovisual and documentary content as a tool in literature education. This tool is much more suited to contemporary conditions and the psychological characteristics of the new generations. In its application, the teacher plays the key role of mediator and facilitator. The parallel presentation of literary texts and related audiovisual forms stimulates students\u2019 perception, supports them in the analysis and interpretation of literary works, and fosters their critical thinking and cultural sensitivity. European experience highlights the need for a conscious selection of film texts that provoke aesthetic perception and self-awareness. Cinemapedagogy builds a bridge between art, education, and culture.<\/p>\n Keywords:<\/em> cinemapedagogy; audiovisual content; literature education; connection between education and culture<\/p>\n SEE MORE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maya Sotirova<\/strong><\/p>\n Sofia University<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/bel2025-6-9S<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract. <\/strong>This article focuses on the representation of the figure of Vasil Levski in the literary curriculum for grades I \u2013 IV in Bulgarian primary education. It examines the selection of texts included in the reading textbooks for the initial stage of basic education, the methodological strategies employed by the textbook authors, interdisciplinary connections, and the multimodal representation of Levski\u2019s image in digital educational content. The aim is to highlight the importance of incorporating texts with historical narratives into literary education as a means of fostering national consciousness among young students. The article also seeks to explore the characteristics of children\u2019s literary perception of historical figures at an early school age and to outline the methodological specifics of working with literary texts that depict historical personalities through artistic language.<\/p>\n Keywords: <\/em>Vasil Levski; literary education; historical figure; literary image; literary perception; national identity; methodological approaches<\/p>\n SEE MORE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elena Getova<\/strong><\/p>\n University of Plovdiv \u201cPaisii Hilendarski\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nPhonetic and Morphological Aspects of the Idiolect of Priest Mincho Kanchev, Reflected in \u201eVidritsa\u201c<\/h3>\n
Emotions in English and Bulgarian Idiomatic Expressions with Colours<\/h3>\n
Possible Alternatives to the Revival Literary History<\/h3>\n
A Failed Ideology: About Bulgarian Skepticism toward Socialism<\/h3>\n
Dynamics of Identities. Supporting Students\u2019 Reflection on the Issue in Three Matriculation Texts \u2013 \u201cZhelezniyat Svetilnik\u201d, \u201cPrikazka za stalbata\u201d, and \u201cBalada za Georg Henich\u201d<\/h3>\n
Who is the Author? A Study on High School Students\u2018 Ability to Distinguish between an Author\u0315s Artistic Work and a Text Generated by Artificial Intelligence<\/h3>\n
Cinemapedagogy and Literature Education<\/h3>\n
The Image of Vasil Levski in the Discourse of Literary Education at the Primary School Level<\/h3>\n
Picturesque Bulgaria. Literary Atlas. Multilingual Routes. Vol. 2<\/h3>\n