Original scientific paper
The meaning of the Croatian Church Slavonic stem smêr- and translation into Old Church Slavonic
Vida Lučić
Abstract
Semantic analysis of the biblical examples of the Croatian Church Slavonic stem sъmêr- carried out on its morphology as well as on the basis of the scripts articulated by the Natural Semantic Metalanguage shows that the Greek stem ταπειν- semantically differs from its translational Old Church Slavonic equivalent stem sъmêr-. The latter is semantically more complex and includes the theological interpretation of the evangelical concept (which differs from the Old Testament concept) connected to the Greek stem ταπειν-. It means that at least in some cases evangelizational purpose of the Old Church Slavonic had a dominant influence on the translational process. In the case of the analysed stem the translator exhibits primarily communicative and not linguistical understanding of the translation.
Keywords
concept of humbleness; Natural Semantic Metalanguage; prototypical meaning; translation; metaforization
Hrčak ID:
22366
URI
Publication date:
29.3.2008.
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