The specifics of dialogicality of contemporary missionary Orthodox preaching: types, means and functions Cover Image

Специфика диалогичности современной православной миссионерской проповеди: виды, средства, функции
The specifics of dialogicality of contemporary missionary Orthodox preaching: types, means and functions

Author(s): Olʹga Prohvatilova
Subject(s): Applied Linguistics
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Orthodox missionary preaching; external dialogicality; internal dialogicality; deep dialogicality; means of dialogicality; function of dialogicality

Summary/Abstract: The article reveals the specifics of the types, means and functions of dialogic modern missionary Orthodox preaching found in the texts of sermons posted in the video blog «Batushka will answer» on YouTube channel. The study is based on the understanding of dialogicality as a property of a monological text associated with the reproduction of dialogic elements in it and the differentiation of three types of dialogicality – external, internal and deep. It is established that for modern Orthodox missionary preaching external, internal and deep dialogicality are actual. Features of realization of each type of dialogicality are revealed. It is shown that in order to create external dialogicality associated with the focus on the addressee and the actualization of the «you» sphere of utterance, along with the consistent reproduction of certain constitutive means for this genre, new ones are involved. Thus functions of external dialogicality are realized in full. It is proved that the specificity of the internal dialogic nature of missionary preaching based on the change of subject spheres is manifested in the change of its functions: authoritarian and interpretive functions are realized, argumentative and polemical functions remain unclaimed, a new constructive function appears. In addition, there is an expansion of sources of citation by including speeches of famous journalists and heroes of modern books. It is demonstrated that the deep dialogicality, due to the essential features of the genre, is realized in missionary preaching only in one form – when the preacher quotes the Holy Scripture, the traditional prosodic markers of this type of dialogicality are not used.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: XXIX
  • Page Range: 147 - 163
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish