The Secularisation of Religious Vocabulary against the Background of Social Change - Polish, Czech, Slovak and German

该项目于2011年冬季启动，旨在完成德语、波兰语、斯洛伐克语和捷克语宗教词汇比较在线词典。本词典是比较语言学和文化学研究的参考工具。数字词典可在网址www2.hu-berlin.de/sacrumprofanum/index.html上查阅（该网址目前尚未公开。但是，可以使用用户名dfg和密码lex2012）进行访问。该项目的主要目标之一是描述原始宗教术语的世俗化使用。词典的宏观结构包括67个词元，这些词元被认为代表了当代标准语言中使用的宗教词汇的核心。从内涵、词汇关系、构词法、搭配、成语和谚语等角度对词元进行了描写。因此，他们的不同方面的含义预计将被揭示。有限的词元集合允许比通常在描述性词典中发现的更详细的语义分析，并且使我们能够描述诸如一词多义和词使用的新趋势等方面。此外，该词典还将提供自1945年以来的词源和语义变化的信息，以及四个语言社区之间的社会文化差异。在宗教话语之外使用宗教词汇的例子很多，从广告和大众文化的其他领域。词典学分析的结果随后在专题文章中讨论。该项目不仅依靠词典编纂工作，而且充分利用国家语料库。所收集的数据由四种语言的母语者进行双重检查。通过对上述四种中欧语言中宗教词汇使用情况的比较分析，可以深入了解词汇世俗化的机制，这不仅对斯拉夫语和普通语言学，而且对其他研究领域都有价值。

The aim of the project, which started in the winter of 2011, is to complete a comparative online dictionary of German, Polish, Slovak and Czech religious vocabulary. The dictionary is designed as a reference tool for comparative linguistic and culturological research. The digital dictionary will be accessible at the web address www2.hu-berlin.de/sacrumprofanum/index.html (the web site is cur-rently not publicly available. Access, however, is possible with the user name dfg and the pass¬word lex2012). One of the main goals of the project is to describe the secularized use of originally religious terms. The macrostructure of the dictionary comprises 67 lemmas which are supposed to represent the core of the religious vocabulary used in contemporary standard language. The lem-mas are described from different points of view, such as connotations, lexical relations, word for-mation, collocations, idiomatic phrases and proverbs. Thus, the different facets of their meaning are expected to be revealed. The limited set of lemmas allows for a more detailed semantic analy¬sis than is usually found in descriptive dictionaries and enables us to describe such aspects as polysemy and new trends in word usage. Besides, the dictionary will offer information on etymol¬ogy and semantic change since 1945 against the background of socio-cultural differences between the four language communities in question. The use of religious vocabulary outside religious dis¬course is illustrated with numerous examples from advertisements and other spheres of mass cul¬ture. The results of the lexicographic analyses are subsequently discussed in special articles. The project relies not only on lexicographic works but also makes ample use of national corpora. The collected data are double-checked by native speakers of the four languages. A comparative analy¬sis of the use of religious vocabulary in the four Central European languages mentioned yields an insight into the mechanisms of lexical secularization that will be valuable not only for Slavic and general linguistics but also for other fields of research.