RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE: EXTRALINGUISTIC AND LINGUISTIC FEATURES

Abstract

The relevance of the article is due to the need to study more fully the religious discourse, which has recently attracted the attention of scientists of different directions. However, the available scientific results do not give reason to speak about the completeness of the study of this phenomenon, some issues have not yet received proper coverage, for example, there is not enough information on what specific features and features it has. The article gives a brief description of religious discourse and focuses on its main linguistic and extralinguistic features. Religious discourse is considered by the author as a special kind of communication of people related to the church as a social institution, the purpose of which is to demonstrate and strengthen the faith of man in God, to analyze the accumulated spiritual experience, which is for the believer a means for the actual spiritual growth in God. The study shows that special features of religious discourse include irreality, idealism, visibility, nazidity, etc. Theological and discursive methods of research are used.