ABSTRACT Religious symbols are often treated as mysterious, and even magical, links between the visible and the invisible worlds. They also lie in the nature of Christianity: they are present in its language, liturgy, as well as various forms of religious art. On the one hand, taking the cognitive-linguistic standpoint, it can be claimed that religious symbols are metonymical in nature. However, in this paper, we argue that Christian symbols are, in fact, more complex conceptually, as they are often based on metaphtonymy, an interaction between metaphor and metonymy. Thus, in our qualitative study, we analyze selected examples of Christian symbols rooted in the biblical language and related directly or indirectly to the person of Christ in order to present the types of metaphtonymy motivating their meaning. The identified patterns of metaphor-metonymy interaction include metonymical expansion or reduction of either the metaphorical source or target domain. In this way we aim to show that despite the special role ascribed to religious symbols, thanks to the theory of metaphor-metonymy interaction their mysterious nature and complexities of meaning can be successfully untangled.

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基督教象征中隐喻与转喻的相互作用

摘要 宗教符号通常被视为可见世界和不可见世界之间神秘甚至神奇的联系。它们也存在于基督教的本质中：它们存在于其语言、礼仪以及各种形式的宗教艺术中。一方面，从认知语言学的角度来看，可以说宗教符号在本质上是转喻的。然而，在本文中，我们认为基督教符号实际上在概念上更复杂，因为它们通常基于隐喻，隐喻和转喻之间的相互作用。因此，在我们的定性研究中，我们分析了植根于圣经语言并与基督的人直接或间接相关的基督教符号的选定例子，以展示激发其意义的隐喻类型。隐喻-转喻相互作用的识别模式包括隐喻源或目标域的转喻扩展或减少。通过这种方式，我们旨在表明，尽管宗教符号具有特殊的作用，但由于隐喻-转喻相互作用理论，它们的神秘本质和意义的复杂性可以成功解开。