Artykuł jest próbą porównania współczesnego białoruskiego słownictwa religijnego na przykładzie oficjalnych przekładów Ewangelii wg Świętego Jana w wersji prawosławnej i katolickiej. Porównanie to pokazuje mechanizm tworzenia leksyki konfesyjnej na potrzeby Kościoła Katolickiego i Cerkwii Prawosławnej na Białorusi. Zagadnienie unifikacji słownictwa religijnego we współczesnym języku białoruskim jest tematem chętnie podejmowanym przez badaczy. Szczególnie często naukowcy zajmowali się przekładami Biblii. Tłumacze wszystkich epok wkładali wiele wysiłku w przyswojenie językowi białoruskiemu słownictwa biblijnego oraz nazw własnych. Wyraźnie widoczna jest w nich przynależność konfesyjna każdego przekładu. To samo zjawisko obserwujemy w najnowszych oficjalnych przekładach.
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The aim of the article is to compare contemporary Belarusian confessional vocabulary on the basis of official translations of The Gospel of John in the Orthodox and the Catholic version. This comparison shows the matter of mechanisms behind creating religious lexisfor the purposes of Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church, which is currently an important topic for those faithful to both of those religions, as well as for linguists dealing with the Belarusian language. The unification of religious vocabulary in contemporary Belarusian languageis the motif which frequently appears in linguistic works. A special consideration is givento the analysis of the translations of the Bible. Bible translations into Belarusian have their origins in the activities of Skaryna. Translators had put a lot of effort into implementing religious vocabulary and the names of Holy Land into Belarusian language. The confes‑ sional affiliation is clearly visible in each of those translations. The same phenomenon can be seen in the contemporary Bible translations.
The monograph by Anna Engelking Kolkhoz members. Antropological study of identity in the Belorussian country at the turn of 20th and 21st centuries contains results of the research thet has been carried out for twenty years in Belarus. The author poses questions concerning the identity of Belarussian Kolkhoz members formed by themselves and shows that it is based on clear contrasts: peasant / landlord, Christian / Jew, believing / unbelieving. These contrasts are rooted in the past but the author shows that the contemporary Belorussian country is immersed in the past and earlier social order is still present in people’s minds despite political and economic changes.
Field research in Babruysk and vincinity taken up recently is part of research of the religious language of Catholics in former North-Eastern Polish Borderland and writings of Florian Czarnyszewicz, who comes from Babruysk Disctrict, the author of several novels, the most famous of which is called Nadberezhyntsy. The article presents short history of Babruysk with special attention drawn to cultural - educational problems and the dynamics of population development in this town. It shows functioning of the Catholic Church in Babruysk District in 20th and 21st centuries. It also discusses the language situation in the researched area which is as follows: the primary language in the town is Russian with elements of Belorussian. This language demonstrates great idiolectal diversity. People who live in the country and have never left it use a Belorussian dialect (which confirms the principle that living in the country favours preserving the dialect). The Polish language is present only during the liturgy and prayers of the eldest generation. During Masses said in Polish the Polish language is used for Eucharistic Liturgy but during the Liturgy of the Word Polish is present only for the reading. The sermon is preached in Belorussian. Belorussian is also used for pastoral announcements. Numerous participants of the Mass can be the proof of attachment to the Polish language as the language of liturgy. During the research trip we visited four cemetaries where we photographed 87 tombs. As for these tombs, we were certain that they belonged to Poles (as surnames, names or father's names indicated). 33 inscriptions out of this number were engraved in Latin alphabet. We could observe mixing Latin types with Cyrillic ones. The appendix given at the end of the article contains texts of an informant from Prodwin written phonetically.
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