DESACRALIZATION OF THE BIBLICAL IDIOM
“MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE”
IN THE INTERNET AND MEDIA DISCOURSE Cover Image

ДЕСАКРАЛИЗАЦИЯ БИБЛЕЙСКОГО ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЗМА НЕ ХЛЕБОМ ЕДИНЫМ ЖИВ ЧЕЛОВЕК НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ ИНТЕРНЕТ-, МЕДИАДИСКУРСА
DESACRALIZATION OF THE BIBLICAL IDIOM “MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE” IN THE INTERNET AND MEDIA DISCOURSE

Author(s): Oksana Vladimirovna Shkuran
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: Bible; biblical phraseological unit; linguistic sacralization; linguistic desacralization; semantic transformation; Internet discourse; media discourse; destruction of linguistic personality

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a wide range of the desacralized meanings of the biblical idiom “Man shall not live by bread alone”illustrated by the empirical material of the Internet and media discourse. The research uses the diachronic approach– from the interpretation of the biblical text to the analysis of the communicative intent of the media space dialogueparticipants, illustrating the transformed nuclear and peripheral semantic meanings of the biblical idiom. The studied biblical expression originates directly from the Holy Scripture text and becomes the part of the modern Russian languagephraseological fund. Contextual analysis enables us to identify the nationally specifi c features of the conceptsphere of this biblical expression, and explore the role of the biblical spiritual culture in the modern Internet and mediaspace with special focus on cultural and cognitive, emotional and expressive, regulative, entertaining and hedonistic,as well as consumer eff ects of the desacralized meanings on the design of the text and iconic language space, carryinga special pragmatic load. In general, the Internet and media discourse illustrates the desacralization of the biblical idiom“Man shall not live by bread alone”, which induces destructive processes in the formation of the language taste of theepoch.

  • Issue Year: 42/2020
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 54-63
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian