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Holiness in Old English: The Construction of the Sacred in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints
Neophilologus Pub Date : 2020-06-29 , DOI: 10.1007/s11061-020-09648-4
Penelope Scott

The designation of spaces, objects, and people as sacred is a cross-cultural phenomenon, yet the conceptual category of the sacred differs across cultures in terms of how it is constructed and how it interacts with other cultural models. This paper examines the construction of the sacred in Anglo-Saxon hagiographies from a cognitive perspective. The article methodologically brings together close-reading of AElfric’s Lives of Saints with consideration of the sub-senses of halig ‘holy’, and is theoretically informed by Cultural Linguistics and Cognitive approaches to religion. Paden (in: Idinopulos & Yonan (eds), The sacred and its scholars: Comparative methodologies for the study of primary religious data, Brill, Leiden, 1996) notes that for much of the history of comparative religious studies, the ‘mana’ model has prevailed in descriptions of the concept of sacrality. While he concedes that this model is representative of the sacred in many cultures, he contends that another is at least as important, which he terms the ‘sacred-order’ model. The sacred, in this second model, stands not in opposition to the mundane but to that which breaks the boundaries between the sacred and the profane. This paper details the construction of the sacred in terms of image schemas, conceptual metaphors and cultural schemas and argues that while the ‘mana’ and ‘sacred-order’ models of sacrality exist in Old English, the two models are interconnected and form part of a larger complex cultural model in which space is at the centre.

中文翻译:

古英语中的圣洁:Ælfric 圣徒生活中的神圣建构

将空间、物体和人指定为神圣是一种跨文化现象,但神圣的概念类别在不同文化的构建方式以及与其他文化模式的相互作用方面有所不同。本文从认知的角度考察了盎格鲁-撒克逊圣徒传记中神圣的建构。这篇文章在方法上结合了对 AElfric 的《圣徒传》的仔细阅读,并考虑到了 halig 的“神圣”的次级意义,并在理论上受到了文化语言学和宗教认知方法的启发。Paden (in: Idinopulos & Yonan (eds), The神圣及其学者:研究原始宗教数据的比较方法,Brill, Leiden, 1996) 指出,对于比较宗教研究的大部分历史,“法力”模型在对神圣概念的描述中占了上风。虽然他承认这种模式在许多文化中代表了神圣,但他认为另一个至少同样重要,他称之为“神圣秩序”模式。在这第二种模式中,神圣并不与世俗对立,而是与打破神圣与世俗界限的事物相对立。本文从形象图式、概念隐喻和文化图式方面详细介绍了神圣的构建,并认为虽然古英语中存在“mana”和“sacred-order”的神圣模型,但这两种模型是相互关联的,并构成了神圣的一部分。以空间为中心的更大的复杂文化模型。他认为另一个至少同样重要,他称之为“神圣秩序”模型。在这第二种模式中,神圣并不与世俗对立,而是与打破神圣与世俗界限的事物相对立。本文从形象图式、概念隐喻和文化图式方面详细介绍了神圣的构建,并认为虽然古英语中存在“mana”和“sacred-order”的神圣模型,但这两种模型是相互关联的,并构成了神圣的一部分。以空间为中心的更大的复杂文化模型。他认为另一个至少同样重要,他称之为“神圣秩序”模型。在这第二种模式中,神圣并不与世俗对立,而是与打破神圣与世俗界限的事物相对立。本文从形象图式、概念隐喻和文化图式方面详细介绍了神圣的构建,并认为虽然古英语中存在“mana”和“sacred-order”的神圣模型,但这两种模型是相互关联的,并构成了神圣的一部分。以空间为中心的更大的复杂文化模型。
更新日期:2020-06-29
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