Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарии (Dec 2024)
On the Correlation between the Definitions “Religious Discourse” and “Religious Functional Style”: Confessional and Linguistic Aspects
Abstract
The article presents the experience of theoretical generalization of modern scientific ideas about the content and correlation of the most important concepts of modern speech communication in the religious sphere: “religious discourse” and “religious functional style”. The relevance of the study results from the need to clearly define these scientific terms for further systematic description and identification of the peculiarities of the implementation of the religious style of the modern Russian language in the Orthodox discourse. Modern scientific concepts in the field of stylistics of the Russian language, theolinguistics and the theory of speech discourse served as the material for the research. The author used the phenomenological, content analysis, comparative analysis, and information theoretical analysis as main methods of scientific research. As a result of the study, the author’s definitions of the concepts “religious discourse” and “religious functional style” were formulated, a system of internal structuring of Russian religious discourse was defined, where the main differential features are confessional affiliation (Christian: Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant; Jewish; Islamic; Buddhist and others types of discourse) and language of communication (Church Slavonic — modern Russian). The author substantiates the priority of the Orthodox segment of Russian religious discourse on the basis of historical trends in its formation — Orthodox spiritual culture and Church Slavonic writing, as well as modern trends in the legal and regulatory consolidation of the Russian language as the language of the state-forming people. The author comes to the conclusion that the core of Russian Orthodox discourse (liturgical practice of the Russian Church) is served by the resources of the Church Slavonic language; and the periphery (speech communication in all areas of church-social interaction) is served by the religious functional style of the modern Russian language.
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