| Popis: |
he article deals with one of the important issues of the theory of religion – the issue of the language of religion and its relationship with the language of religious studies. The language of religion is understood as a sign system that includes linguistic units – words (names), compound naming conventions, phraseological units, sentences – which have religious meanings. Words (names) of the language of religion mean hypostatized beings, properties, connections, transformations, as well as real objects, persons, actions, events with attributive properties. The language of religion is a means of coding religious thinking, objectification and expression of religious consciousness, a means of religious communication. The language of religion is semantic and symbolic. The linguistic expression of religious consciousness is characterized by a certain syntagmatic, which is a set of syntactic intonation-semantic units. In these units, words, phrases, sentences and phonation, alliteration using techniques of sound expressiveness are combined into semantic integrity. In the language of religion, saturated with analogies, words are often used allegorically; texts are replete with metaphor; allegories, archaisms, historicisms, antonyms are widely used. This language is characterized by emotional and evaluative tension, recitation, a peculiar intonational style, constant and multiple repetitions of the same linguistic units. Thanks to a language, religious consciousness turns out to be practical and effective, it becomes both social and individual reality. The language of religious studies is interpreted as a “language of the second order”, as a “metalanguage” of the language of religion. The article shows the need of correlating the meanings of the corresponding names in different national languages of religious studies in the process of interlingual communication of scholars who represent different national cultures |
