This monograph delves into the complex relationship between language, religion, and culture, focusing on how religious discourse evolves and adapts across English, German, and Ukrainian contexts. By reconstructing theolinguistic matrices-the frameworks that encode religious beliefs-this work reveals how key concepts like faith, righteousness, and repentance are communicated, preserved, and transformed over time. Combining comparative linguistics with cognitive-semantic approaches, the volume offers strategic insights into the metaphorical and archetypal structures underlying religious language, bridging ancient traditions with modern communicative contexts.
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.
Dr habil. Yan Kapranov is a Professor at the School of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (Poland), a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oulu (Finland), and a Professor at Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University (Ukraine). He leads the UEHS Academic and Research Center for Multilingualism in Corpus Translation and Interpreting Studies. His research interests include comparative and macrocomparative linguistics, historical linguistics, corpus-based analysis of multilingual texts, translation studies, and the study of conceptualisation and text-production in religious and educational discourse.
Prof. Dr habil. Maksym W. Sitnicki is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University, USA. He is also a professor at the School of Business at VIZJA University in Poland, as well as a professor in the Department of Management of Innovation and Investment Activities at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in Ukraine. His research interests include the strategic management of research universities, strategic flexibility in management leadership, sustainable business model development, advances in safety and security, creative entrepreneurship development, and organisational development management in the information society.
Dr Bozena Iwanowska is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, as the Director of the UEHS Academic Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research. Her research interests include linguistics, translation studies, corpus linguistics, and the textual and conceptual representation of cultural and social processes, with particular emphasis on Holocaust and genocide narratives and historical-educational discourse.
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