Sacredness as a factor of text formation in religious-literary communication.

Abstract

Aim is to analyze the semantic and structural peculiarities of religious-literary texts in the context of the category of sacredness. Methodology. The study is based on the theoretical data of dominant, intertextuality and categorial text modeling, with lingua-stylistic, emotive, definitional, and contextual analyses being employed.  Results. Described the mechanisms of religious-literary text formation and proposed the algorithm of language means analysis. Shown that the Names of God are linguistic representatives of sacred knowledge in the text under study. Imagery is viewed as a vehicle of poetic knowledge conceptualizing sacredness and the poetic detail is treated as instrumental in effecting linguistic analysis. Established usual / occasional semantic correlations of language means representing two types of knowledge and structuring the text. Research implications . The results obtained develop the theories of text formation and text typology. Accentuated the mechanism of text formation at the intersection of two knowledge types and linguistic framework of gnoseologically heterogeneous texts. Proposed the new solution to the problem of religious and linguistic categories interaction in the process of text production.