Uncover the evolution of religious language and its role in shaping faith across cultures
This monograph investigates the interplay of linguistics, theology, and cognitive science by analyzing the evolving theolinguistic matrices within religious and popular discourse. Focusing on English, German, and Ukrainian, it traces the diachronic interpretation of key religious concepts—righteousness, faith, and repentance—within Indo-European and Nostratic frameworks. Through comparative-historical methods and cognitive-matrix analysis, the authors reveal how these archetypal matrices shape theological communication across cultures. The work offers deep insights into the construction of religious meaning, engaging scholars in linguistics, theology, and cultural history to explore the relationship between language, faith, and identity.
Olesya Cherkhava
Dr Olesya Cherkhava is a Professor in the Department of Germanic and Romance Languages at Kyiv National Linguistic University (Ukraine) and an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (Poland). Her research interests include cognitive comparative and macrocomparative linguistics and theolinguistics.
Theolinguistics Religious discourse Linguistic reconstruction Indo-European languages Nostratic languages Cognitive linguistics Faith and language Comparative linguistics Religious concepts Metaphorical language Diachronic interpretation Strategic perspectives