The semantics of old church Slavonic dobr'' and blag''
This paper deals with the semantics of OCS dobr'' and blag'' in the translation of tetraeuangelion, compared with the semantics of their Greek correlates kalós, agathós and hrēstós. It points out the semantic changes which occurred in creating Slavic theological terminology. OCS...
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade
2008-01-01
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| author | Grković-Mejdžor Jasmina |
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| description | This paper deals with the semantics of OCS dobr'' and blag'' in the translation of tetraeuangelion, compared with the semantics of their Greek correlates kalós, agathós and hrēstós. It points out the semantic changes which occurred in creating Slavic theological terminology. OCS dobr'' is an evaluative of the physical aspect of a notion, including its function, while blag'' through the process of semantic transposition acquired the meaning 'good in a spiritual sense'. This distinction reflects the Christian dual articulation of the world. This research reveals that a change of a cultural model induces semantic changes, be they 'natural' or consciously created in the development of certain terminologies, as witnessed here by Old Church Slavonic. In this process universal concepts are submitted to a culture-specific categorization, as seen in Greek kalós ('beautiful' > 'good') and OCS blag'' ('pleasant' > 'good spiritually'). These changes are possible only because of the fuzzy nature of meaning itself. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d60a4ba6ea434008995a0413a246f8442022-12-22T00:38:33ZengSerbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, BelgradeJužnoslovenski Filolog0350-185X2008-01-01200864516010.2298/JFI0864051GThe semantics of old church Slavonic dobr'' and blag''Grković-Mejdžor JasminaThis paper deals with the semantics of OCS dobr'' and blag'' in the translation of tetraeuangelion, compared with the semantics of their Greek correlates kalós, agathós and hrēstós. It points out the semantic changes which occurred in creating Slavic theological terminology. OCS dobr'' is an evaluative of the physical aspect of a notion, including its function, while blag'' through the process of semantic transposition acquired the meaning 'good in a spiritual sense'. This distinction reflects the Christian dual articulation of the world. This research reveals that a change of a cultural model induces semantic changes, be they 'natural' or consciously created in the development of certain terminologies, as witnessed here by Old Church Slavonic. In this process universal concepts are submitted to a culture-specific categorization, as seen in Greek kalós ('beautiful' > 'good') and OCS blag'' ('pleasant' > 'good spiritually'). These changes are possible only because of the fuzzy nature of meaning itself.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-185X/2008/0350-185X0864051G.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Grković-Mejdžor Jasmina The semantics of old church Slavonic dobr'' and blag'' Južnoslovenski Filolog |
| title | The semantics of old church Slavonic dobr'' and blag'' |
| title_full | The semantics of old church Slavonic dobr'' and blag'' |
| title_fullStr | The semantics of old church Slavonic dobr'' and blag'' |
| title_full_unstemmed | The semantics of old church Slavonic dobr'' and blag'' |
| title_short | The semantics of old church Slavonic dobr'' and blag'' |
| title_sort | semantics of old church slavonic dobr and blag |
| url | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-185X/2008/0350-185X0864051G.pdf |
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