Фразеотвірний потенціал релігійної лексики в сучасній комунікації
Authors: Ковтун Альбіна 
Published: December 2019

Lexical and grammatical changes in the phraseological unit structure with a religious element reflecting the Ukrainians' archaistic thinking is a continual process in the Ukrainian language. The flexibility of forms and interchangeability of the phraseological components is one of the reasons for the active use of such stable phrases in modern Ukrainian speech. However, the identification of the religious vocabulary potential in the phraseology formation system of modern Ukrainian against the traditional use of stable phrases with the religious component is still an understudied problem in the Ukrainian linguistics, which determined the choice of the topic for the research. The purpose of the article is to shed light on and contribute to better understanding of the formation potential of the phraseological units with religious lexemes. The analysis has been carried out using not only standard language dictionaries, dictionaries of biblical phraseological units, collections of proverbs and sayings, but also the samples of modern publicistic and artistic speech.

The case study of commonly used and occasional phraseological units with a religious component has revealed their semantic heterogeneity. On the one hand, these are the phraseological units that preserve the nominative meaning of its word-components and can be easily derived from their meanings without decoding. On the other hand, there are phraseological units with a new generalized figurative meaning created by blending the elements with direct meaning and the elements with figurative (metaphoric and metonymic) meanings. Blending of the two denotative (primary and secondary) situations determines the actual meaning of RFU, the basis of which is the internal form of a phraseological unit with a religious component. The phraseological units resulting from the determination of the unknown through the well-known, associated with Christian traditions and the Bible, dominate in the Ukrainian language. Preservation of the internal forms of such stable units and the possibility of reproducing the motivation signs in them are high. The occasional word combinations with biblical elements, metaphorical and metonymic rethinking of the phraseological units with a religious context (proper phraseological units, stable analytical names of objects, phenomena and rituals from the religious life of Ukrainians, idiomatic expressions, proverbs and sayings) are especially vivid and expressive, full of associative imagery, stylistic originality and value. A great variety of such units points to significant productivity of the Ukrainian religious vocabulary and elucidates the importance of religion in the life of the Ukrainians.

 

Key words: religious vocabulary, religious phraseological unit, transformation / reduction/extension /component replacement of phraseological unit.

 

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