Les figures de style et leur relevance dans le décodage sémiotique d’un texte: la métaphore dans le texte moderne des Psaumes (II). Champs conceptuels
Some Matters Concerning the Figures of Speech and their Relevance in the Textual Semiotic Decoding: the Metaphor in the Modern Versions of the Book of Psalms

Summary/Abstract: Our study – that starts up from an online modern biblical version – intends to focus on the analysis of the metaphorical structures seen as reduction figures (according to Bardin’s terminology, 1991). Our research has as a starting point the main conceptual fields, identifiable in this discursive frame: “Divinity”, “human being”, “national values”, “spiritual values”, so on and so forth. These structures – relevant, as far as the semiotic thesaurus of a community and its authority are concerned – need to be analyzed from the perspective of a double non determination: a suggestive non determination (specific to poetic texts), and, respectively, a special non determination/ inaccuracy, resulted from the so called “the Holy Spirit’ hermeneutics”, and, consequently, imposed by the quality of a sacred text, held by the psalm. The good representation of this stylistic structure within the psalmic text is due to the fact that one and the same concept often corresponds to a multitude of metaphorical images, and so, the relation of „poetic synonymy” can be established among all the metaphorical synonyms of the same proper term of the respective creation. The aspect doesn’t exclude the possibility of identification in the psalmic creation of certain “invariables”, enhanced by the poetic definition of certain notions and which, undoubtedly, represent arguments for the organization, cohesion, and, ultimately, for the stylistic unity, specific to this type of creation. The figurative structures, that reoccur in many psalms, and, more than that, even in many types of biblical or at least, sacred texts, come to keep up the idea mentioned above, offering, at the same time, relevance for the marked inter textual nature of the sacred text.

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