The study is a “pilot probe” into the issue of exorcisms and the language of exorcists, which we understand and define as a special microsocial communication sub-register within the religious macrosocial communication register. In the practical part of the study we analyse the spoken monologue texts of the five most famous Slovak Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic exorcists. We try to define some of the features of the exorcist communication sub-register on the content-thematic, compositional, pragmatic and lexical levels. Finally, we briefly outline a set of register-motivated lexemes, into which motivating cooperation and register poly-motivation interfere.
The presented study introduces the exorcism of the Humenné Anthology of Sermons from the 17th century. It is an Old Church Slavonic text written in Cyrillic; so far its origin or any possible models were unknown. This study presents new findings concerning the text and in parallel introduces another Cyrillic text, preceeding in time, together with its Greek original; this latter exorcism could inspire the writer of the first one. The matter of exorcism and especially of an exorcist is described in detail as well.
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