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The meaning of the Croatian Church Slavonic stem smêr- and translation into Old Church Slavonic

Vida Lučić


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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

https://hrcak.srce.hr/22366

Publication date:

29.3.2008.

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