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The Adjective 'Sacred' in Metalinguisticsof the Language: Functional-semantic Research
The Adjective 'Sacred' in Metalinguisticsof the Language: Functional-semantic Research
- 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.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Linguistics and Language
Root (linguistics)
History
lcsh:P101-410
Folklore
lexical-semantic variations
Mythology
secularization
lcsh:P325-325.5
Sublime
Semantics
lcsh:Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics
Paremiology
Phraseology
metalinguistics
Adjective
sacred
holy
lcsh:Semantics
Subjects
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