Author: G.I. Berestnev
Affiliation: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Abstract:
The article shows that language categories of prophetic texts in their content appear broader in comparison with usual language categories. The mechanisms of this phenomenon are disclosed. Their common feature is made up by the expansion of reference relations expressed in a prophecy, which defines the ambiguity of sense of prophecies from the point of view of a natural language.
Keywords: cognitive linguistics, prophetic texts, semantics, semiotics, symbol, metaphor, reference, culture