Новітні вектори української теолінгвістики: сакралізація в умовах війни
Latest Directions of Ukrainian Theolinguistics: Sacralization in the Conditions of War

Author(s): Natalia Poddubna
Subject(s): Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: sacralization; desacralization; resacralization; precedent; language game
Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to the verbalization of the category of the sacred in Ukrainian linguistic culture during the Russian-Ukrainian war (2022–2023). The presentation of religious meanings and their modernization in present conditions are shown as a feat of linguistic creativity of Ukrainians in regard to the continuation of the national tradition in the modeling of semantic-pragmatic meanings in the sacred–profane plane. Attention is drawn to the fact that verbalization of the sacred and anti-sacred, like everything in the language system and speech, demonstrates progress, dynamism, development. The study examines the linguistic manifestations of the processes of sacralization, desacralization and resacralization as components of the category of the sacred. In particular, attention is focused on combined resacralization, whereby based on a combination of national and biblical elements, precedent situations are modeled. This enables the emergence of new images, in particular of Ukrainian soldiers – brothers of angels, and the creation of a multidimensional text in which biblical allusions are intertwined with concrete life stories, the imaginary with the real. It is substantiated that in modern literature and, accordingly, in the language of the war time, various structural types of biblicisms are widely used with the aim of creating original images, sacralizing Ukrainian soldiers and the entire Ukrainian nation, which indicates biblicality as a typical feature of the Ukrainian linguistic culture. One of the means of verbalization of the latest sacralization is biblical allusion as the most popular form of literary intertextuality. The role of the language game – manifesting itself at different linguistic levels (graphical, word-forming, phraseological) – in the desacralization of certain religious concepts is demonstrated. The cultural and worldview conditioning of the sacred is shown, which is realized in the partial desacralization of religious concepts and sacralizationof national precedent ones, primarily that of the Armed Forces. The attention is focused on the appearance of new specific precedent texts, in which partial desacralization of important religious concepts is a kind of background for the expression of the sacralization of the Armed Forces and Ukraine, which demonstrates both the durability of tradition and innovation in Ukrainian linguistic culture.

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