Концептологія Нового Заповіту

Abstract

У статті висвітлено проблеми дослідження текстових концептосфер. На основі концептуального аналізу описано операційні засади виявлення смислових домінант тексту.

This article offers a concept analysis of the New Testament. Biblical concepts deserve most particular attention as they represent and convey the meaning of the text. The concepts are analyzed by means of description of their semantic content and ways of their linguistic explication. This allows us to discover elements of the concepts’ inner structure. By summarizing the meanings contained in the interpretating lexical tools we obtain their quite comprehensive semantic description. The first stage of the concept analysis of the New Testament focuses on determining the plentitude of text tools that are key to the lexical-semantic system. This is followed by concept analysis of the units showing the most important elements of their meaning. The third stage of textual space conceptualizing is used “to take look deep into the text” to decode, expand and actualize its inner content structure. In doing so, we are able to model the sub-text of the writing through textual explication of super-concepts. The latter carry multi-faceted chains of meaning, usually represented by words and their combinations. Concept analysis of the text, which is based on statistics of usage of key words, allows us to create a relevant multi-dimensional index, which we describe as a lexicographic system of fundamental, dominant concepts (semantic zones) of the Holy Scriptures, their relationships and quantitative characteristics. The proposed methodology can be used to explicate, based on the sub-text, verbalized meanings and key Biblical ideas that are formed by the context of the whole writing and are represented through the concept sphere of the text.