SPECIFICS OF CONCEPTS FUNCTIONING IN RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article examines the existing approaches to understanding of the essence of religious discourse and describes the role of religious concepts as its structural components and indicators. The study proceeds from the definition of discourse offered by Van Dijk, according to the opinion of whom religious discourse reflects the mentality of the nation, shaped by the long-term influence of a particular religion. Religious discourse in the restricted sense is a sacred text of a religion, serving as the source of religious discourse. Religious concepts are value dominants in a national concepts sphere; they function in religious discourse in dependence on the social and cultural situation. A comparative analysis of the frequency of Christian religious concepts functioning in contemporary Russian and British-American discourses is carried out. It is shown that the study of the frequency of religious concepts as indicators of religious discourse by means of corpus linguistics allows to concretize and clarify features of religious discourse, as well as to recreate a linguistic projection of social processes in linguistic societies.

Keywords

• дискурс
• религиозный дискурс
• конфессиональный дискурс
• коммуникация
• религиозный концепт
• индикатор
• discourse
• religious discourse
• confessional discourse
• communication
• religious concept
• indicator