THE FUNCTIONING OF THE ACTS AND EPISTLES OF THE APOSTLES IN MODERN LITERARY RUSSIAN Cover Image

ФУНКЦИОНИРОВАНИЕ ТЕКСТА АПОСТОЛА В СОВРЕМЕННОМ РУССКОМ ЛИТЕРАТУРНОМ ЯЗЫКЕ
THE FUNCTIONING OF THE ACTS AND EPISTLES OF THE APOSTLES IN MODERN LITERARY RUSSIAN

Author(s): Mariya Olegovna Novak
Subject(s): History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), Semantics, Eastern Slavic Languages, 19th Century
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: Acts and Epistles of the Apostles; modern literary Russian; functioning; semantics; Russian National Corpus;

Summary/Abstract: Using the Russian National Corpus, we study how the set expressions originated from the Acts and Epistles of the Apostles function in Russian literary texts (19th–21th centuries) of different genres. We discuss the ways of their semantic transformation depending on the genre and the content of the work. We determine that in the journalistic texts these expressions often change their meanings and lose semantic connections with the source, whereas in the belles-lettres texts they retain these ties and serve as an instrument of stylization (speech characterization) or verbal game.

  • Issue Year: 155/2013
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 255-266
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Russian