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Communicative Culture of the Language of the Religious Sphere in Ukraine and Bulgaria (Comparative Aspect)
Communicative Culture of the Language of the Religious Sphere in Ukraine and Bulgaria (Comparative Aspect)

Author(s): Olena Klymentova, Olha Soroka
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, South Slavic Languages, Stylistics
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: language of the religious sphere; confessional style; stylistics; Slavic studies; Ukraine; Bulgaria; media religiosity; communicative dynamism

Summary/Abstract: The language of the religious sphere in Ukraine and Bulgaria has gone through a long path of communicative adaptation, which was influenced by both intralinguistic and extralinguistic factors. In the Ukrainian approach, the confessional style is singled out, while Bulgarian scholars do not introduce it into the stylistic palette. At the same time, with the involvement of Internet technologies in religious communication and the influence of the new information environment in both countries, religious language seems to objectify itself. A comparative analysis of the language of the religious sphere in Ukraine and Bulgaria has made it possible to find out that communicative dynamism is formed by the media religiosity of content consumers and is objectified as a reduction in differences in the language-speech dichotomy, changes in communicative behaviour, the nature of the interpretation of linguistic signs and the choice of forms of reflecting on them. As a result, a language with new identification standards is constructed. The approach used is rooted in the learning objectives of the Bulgarian language course for Ukrainians, where Ukrainian analytics will help students identify commonalities and differences within the Bulgarian framework as they conduct their own research in the field of religious communication. At the same time, the emphasis is placed on the communicative dynamics of the religious sphere specific to different Slavic countries.

  • Issue Year: 68/2026
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 386-402
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English
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