Serbian theolinguistics today: Research issues and results

Abstract

The essay gives a survey of basic research directions in Serbian theolinguistics (in the fields of general linguistics, Serbian studies, Slavic studies and foreign philology), and presents the most important achievements in the fundamental and applicative fields of the study of the sacral language (from the synchronic perspective) which are presented in monographs, papers published in thematic anthologies, proceedings of scientific conferences and scientific journals in Serbia, Montenegro and the Republic of Srpska (with bibliographic references for the 2000-2013 period). Serbian theolinguistics, although in the stage of scientific constitution, potentially has a wide range of fundamental areas of study (some of the main issues from 2000 to 2013 were theoretical and methodological basis of theolinguistics, modern functioning of liturgical languages, confessional markedness of language levels, functional stylistics, genology and stylistics of resources, discourse theory) and spheres of application (lexicography, traductology, linguodidactics). Its perspective in the forthcoming period lies in strengthening the ties with leading centres of theolinguistics in the Slavic world and the integration of researchers of philological and theological profiles in order to further its development. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. OI 179078: Srpska teologija u XX veku: fundamentalne pretpostavke teoloških disciplina u evropskom kontekstu – istorijska i savremena perspektiva]

Keywords

• theory and methodology of linguistics
• Serbian linguistics
• theolinguistics
• general linguistics
• Serbian studies
• Slavic studies
• foreign philology
• sacral language
• confessional markedness of language levels
• sacral functional stylistic complex
• religious discourse