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

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

Authors :
Oksana Vladimirovna Shkuran
Source :
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp 233-249 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, 2020.

Abstract

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.

Details

ISSN :
24111236 and 23132299
Volume :
11
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....0b0a9d26a8e2c55cfb6dde493440c2a5
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2020-11-2-233-249