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THE RELIGIOUS/ETHICAL CONCEPT SIN: A SOCIODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE

THE RELIGIOUS/ETHICAL CONCEPT SIN: A SOCIODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE


Author:  O.V. Vakhovskaya

Affiliation:  Cherkassy National University named after B. Khmelnytsky

Abstract
This paper focuses on the diachronic variation of the religious/ethical concept SIN in the English secular discourse of the 14th – 21st centuries. The secular segment of the Christian worldview inherits such prototypical features of SIN as its relation to GOD and MAN, gender differentiation, profiling within the spiritual domain, universal character, negative evaluation. Secularization causes historic variation of SIN revealed in the perception of SIN beyond spiritual sphere and its limitedness by the notions of class and race. The most significant changes take place in the evaluative aspect of SIN.

Keywords:  the concept SIN, conceptual feature, diachronic variation, evaluation, linguocultural concept, metaphor, metonymy, secular discourse

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