Significations spécialisées du nom français „sein” dans des textes liturgiques, chretiens-orthodoxes
Specialized Meanings of the French Name ”Sein” in Liturgical, Christian-Orthodox Texts

Summary/Abstract: This paper proposes a discursive analysis of the specialised meanings actualised by the noun «sein» in Orthodox Christian liturgical texts, with particular reference to Marial and hagiographic hymnography. This analysis shows the discursive way in which this noun, belonging to the common lexicon of the language, has been absorbed into a specialised Christian-Orthodox religious lexicon, where it participates, along with other words from the lexical family concerning the divine maternity of the Mother of God, in the establishment of a liturgical semiosis of poetic facture, which recovers part of the literary and ancient Christian lexicon. We are working on a French-language corpus consisting of several liturgical and hagiographic texts used in the Orthodox Church, which have a special ritual relationship with the Mother of God.

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