Verbalization of the Concept “God” in Taras Shevchenko’s Epistolary Discourse.
Keywords:
verbalization, language mapping of the world, religious mapping of the world, language personality, conceptual sphere “Religion”, religious concept, epistolary discourse, nuclear and peripheral sensesAbstract
In his letters T. Shevchenko arises as a devout person. Kobzar’s religiosity is mostly explicated through those verbal means that he uses for verbalizing the most important religious concepts. In his letters, to nominate God T. Shevchenko uses synonymic descriptions, traditional for the Ukrainian lingual culture and religious works that praise God.
In none of his letters does T. Shevchenko argue with God, but on the contrary, shows his respect to Him, actualizing in the corresponding concept such senses as “mercy”, “awe”, “ obedience”, “patience”, “humility”, “sacrifice”, “suffering”, “philanthropy”, “kindness”. In T. Shevchenko’s letters one can easily trace one of the main Christian motives – the suffering of the Sun of God whose symbolic image is actualized by T. Shevchenko as a means of moral and national self-understanding. T. Shevchenko realizes his own suffering through Jesus Christ’s torments
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