СЕМАНТИЧЕСКИЕ ИЗМЕНЕНИЯ В РЕЛИГИОЗНОМ РИТУАЛЕ
SEMANTIC CHANGES IN RELIGIOUS RITUALS

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses specific phenomena manifested in the discourse of Christian religious rituals and which belongs to the sphere of functional semantics. The analysis focuses on the change of verbal texts but the distinguished specific phenomena in the semantic field can be extrapolated to non verbal ritual texts (it becomes possible when general semiotic universals of verbal and non verbal textual elements are differentiated; moreover, it may be fulfilled because of unanimous functioning of verbal and non verbal textual elements in the frame of a larger unity, i.e. religious ritual). Taking into consideration semantic analysis, the conception of reflective semantics has been employed. Its origin may be ascribed to Tver hermeneutic school as well as to the ideas of G. G. Shpet and Tartu-Moscow school. The most significant semantic processes take place at the highest semantic levels, which can be defined as the level of specific semantic elements, i.e. metasenses. The article examines a wide range of semantic phenomena manifested in the ritual discourse which is related to the cultural experience of a person or sociocultural group, as well as to longitudinal processes of forming verbal or non verbal cultural experience. At the same time, the diachronic element of the language semantics is emphasized.

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