The Biblical cult ural background of Russian lexis and phraseological units in educational lexicography
- Authors: Nikitina T.G.1, Panova I.A.2, Rogaleva E.I.2
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Affiliations:
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Pskov State University
- Issue: Vol 23, No 3 (2025): THE HERITAGE OF THE BIBLE IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
- Pages: 482-498
- Section: Cultural Linguistics: Theoretical and Applied Aspects
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2618-8163/article/view/348872
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2618-8163-2025-23-3-482-498
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/XWRETL
- ID: 348872
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Abstract
The relevance of the study is conditioned by the cultural and historical value of linguistic units with a biblical cultural component and the need to improve the methods of their dictionary description. The aim of the research is to develop methods of accessible and scientifically reliable representation of the biblical cultural background of Russian lexis and phraseology in educational dictionaries for foreign students and schoolchildren. In accordance with the principle of methodological expediency, the material for the study was selected from Russian language textbooks for different categories of foreign students. The semantics of biblical units was clarified by the method of contextual analysis. The methods of lexicographic modeling, etymological paraphrasing and linguistic-cultural interpretation were used for structuring dictionary entries and developing the content of their parametric zones. As a result of the research, the authors developed the samples of linguistic-cultural commentary for biblical phraseological units in family reading dictionary for our foreign compatriots. The study identifies the possibilities of linguistic-cultural representation of biblical proverbs in the travelogue dictionary connected to video material. The parameters of ethnocentric dictionary description of georthonyms (names of national festivals) of biblical origin are defined; the techniques for interpreting biblical cultural background of toponyms and ubranonyms, including unofficial ones, are developed with various mechanisms of transonymic nomination. Samples of relevant dictionary entries are given. The dictionary materials can be useful for foreign students and for Russian schoolchildren and students because their spiritual and moral education does not always include the biblical material, despite the fact that the cultural background of biblical terms remains hidden for them in many respects.
About the authors
Tatiana G. Nikitina
Saint Petersburg State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: nikitina-tg2008@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9006-9738
SPIN-code: 6074-6500
Scopus Author ID: 57202860629
Doctor of Philology, Professor, Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Philology
7 Universitetskaya Embankment, bldg. 9, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian FederationIrina A. Panova
Pskov State University
Email: panova.pskov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0001-4971-0412
SPIN-code: 3178-4000
Assistant Professor at the Department of Secondary General Education and Social Design
2 Lenin Square, 180000, Pskov, Russian FederationElena I. Rogaleva
Pskov State University
Email: cambala2010@list.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9963-4203
SPIN-code: 9925-2010
Scopus Author ID: 57298564500
ResearcherId: AAA-4084-2020
Doctor of Philology, Professor, Professor at the Department of Educational Technologies
2 Lenin Square, 180000, Pskov, Russian FederationReferences
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