IDEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENTIATION OF UKRAINIAN RELIGIOUS PHRASEOLOGY

Abstract

The article describes the religious phraseology in the ideographic aspect. The aim of the article is to carry out an ideographic description of religious phraseological units derived from lexicographic and ethnographic works, journalistic and religious texts as well as the Internet resources.
The following thematic fields have been highlighted as parts of the religious phraseology: «Christian theonyms», «Religious-Biblical symbols» and «Sacred time». These thematic fields consist of thematic groups, semantic subgroups, and synonymous series. Most of the phraseological units that represent God’s names come from Bib-lical texts, but religious speech practice (texts of prayers, songs, etc.) has supplemen-ted these groups with a number of original phraseological units: an appeal to the Divine persons has been created for all occasions in the Ukrainian praying tradition, some of them have actually Ukrainian components as emphasized expressed national-cultural markers. A number of Biblical symbols and names of basic religious con-cepts have formed the basis of the creation of religious phraseological units that make «Religious-Biblical symbols» thematic field (3 thematic groups have been dis-tinguished). The thematic field «Sacred Time» forms 5 thematic groups, which inclu-de temporal religious phraseological units. The most numerous is a group of idioms, which refer to religious calendar holidays and time intervals, associated with them (official church and folk-colloquial ones). Individual groups are made by proverbs and sayings, greetings, wishes of religious content with temporal semantics. The con-ducted research on the ideographic differentiation of religious phraseology convin-cingly testifies that it is a rich language layer and an important component of Uk-rainian phraseology. The author considers the further systematization and ideogra-phic description of religious phraseological units that function in modern journalism, fiction, theological woks and the Internet space as promising.