The Adjective 'Sacred' in Metalinguisticsof the Language: Functional-semantic Research

Autor: Oksana V. Shkuran
Jazyk: English<br />Russian
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp 233-249 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2313-2299
2411-1236
DOI: 10.22363/2313-2299-2020-11-2-233-249
Popis: The article is devoted to an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the semantics of the adjective “sacred”, the Indo-European root of which was the basis of the Latin token saker, initially illustrating a multi-pole understanding - from the divine to the demonic, from the sublime to the secularized. Particular attention is paid to the definitions of the adjective in the explanatory, etymological dictionaries of the XІX-XX centuries, in mythological representations, in folklore texts, in calendar, family and other rituals, in phraseology, paremiology, etc. In a historical retrospective, an analysis of changes in the semantics of the adjective “sacred” revealed the pre-Christian, Christian, secularized stages of lexical-semantic variations. A comprehensive study confirms the transformation of not only worldview systems, but also language tools that contribute to the formation in the minds of Russian people of the meta-idea of the adjective “sacred” in order to identify the cultural dominance and actively search and restore its semantic core.
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