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，目的是完成德语、波兰语、斯洛伐克语和捷克语宗教词汇的在线比较词典。该词典旨在为比较语言学和文化学研究提供参考工具。数字词典的网址为www2.hu-berlin.de/saruproanum/index.html(该网站目前尚未公开提供)。然而，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最初宗教术语的世俗化使用。这本词典的宏观结构包括67个词条，这些词条被认为是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、搭配、习语、谚语等不同角度对词组进行了描写。因此，它们的不同方面的含义有望被揭示出来。有限的词条集允许比通常在描述性词典中找到的更详细的语义分析，并使我们能够描述诸如一词多义和词汇使用的新趋势等方面。此外，该词典还将提供自1945年以来在四种语言社区之间社会文化差异的背景下的词汇学和语义变化的信息。通过大量的广告和其他大众文化领域的例子说明了在宗教课程之外宗教词汇的使用。词典分析的结果随后在专门的文章中进行了讨论。该项目不仅依赖于词典编纂的作品，还充分利用了国家语料库。收集的数据由以这四种语言为母语的人复核。通过对上述四种中欧语言中宗教词汇使用的比较分析，可以洞察词汇世俗化的机制，这不仅对斯拉夫语言学和普通语言学，而且对其他领域的研究都有价值。

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.