LEXICAL GRAMMATICAL SPECIFICITY OF GERMAN CATHOLIC PRAYERS ON THE FEASTS OF THE DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH

Through the example of the German language, the paper analyzes a special type of Catholic liturgical text – the Priestly Prayer during the Liturgy of Hours (oration) on the Feasts of the Doctors of the Church. The study views the prayer as a type of text and describes its socio cultural specificity. The present article analyzes the prayer on the Feasts of the Doctors of the Church for lexical grammatical models (addressings, predications, pleadings and conclusions) and the most typical compositional, grammatical, and lexical features and stylistic devices (intertextual borrowings, metaphors, metonymies, antithesis, and syntactic parallelism); and traces how they create the originality of this type of prayers.