Composition and Subject Structure of Minutes Genre in Religious Style

Tatiana Itskovich,Natalia Nikolina,Daria Karmanova,S Cindori,E.Yu Malushko,L.N Rebrina,N.L Shamne,O Larouk

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20185001207

Abstract

The article under consideration is devoted to the study of the functioning of the minutes genre in the religious style. The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that in the religious style, minutes is a peripheral genre that functions at the intersection with the official style, therefore it is particular006Cy important to consider the specific features of this genre as a part of a not typical of it religious sphere. The authors examine the peculiarities of the explication of the category of subject and the changes in the category of composition of minutes using the method of the categorical-textual analysis. The research is done with reference to the minutes-books of the Russian Orthodox Church. The examination of the explication of the categories revealed some specificities: the category of subject is expressed through two nomination chains, connected to the logical structure of the statement. The nomination chain related to the agent is characterized by the limited set of additional nominations. The nomination chain related to the predicate is characterized by the variety of lexically new additional nominations. The peculiarity of the category of composition lies in the additional compositional element, reflecting the idea of duality and interaction with the sacred world.

Highlights

The study of the religious style as a part of a paradigm of functional varieties of contemporary Russian literary language is relevant today in modern linguistics
Considering the identification of functional styles relevant to a particular sphere, we should note a paradoxical situation that existed in Russian linguistics: such sphere of public consciousness as religion was not characterised by a particular inherent style as a result of historically formed social interactions that were in Russia in the 20th century
The analysis of texts of minutes functioning in the religious functional style shows the peculiarities of the category of subject explication

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Introduction

The study of the religious style as a part of a paradigm of functional varieties of contemporary Russian literary language is relevant today in modern linguistics. Krysin, who was the first to pay attention to this problem, raises the question about the specific status of the religious speech, supposing that “the religiouspredicatory style must be included in the functional stylistic paradigm of the Russian standard language and described in scientific publications on stylistics” [1] He names the corresponding kind of the functional style as religious-predicatory, thereby singling out one of the typical genres-preaching. We agree with this viewpoint and suggests that we should use the term ‘religious style’ as a reasonable for the indication of a corresponding sphere and a form of public consciousness Particular genres descriptions, their systematization, constitutive principle determination are the subject of linguistic study [8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16].

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