Published: 2023-05-25

Latin as a sacral language in its relation to the Polish national language

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Abstract

Joanna Sobczykowa’s article deals with Latin as a sacred language in the Polish cultural area in history and today. Sobczykowa outlines the situation in other areas of culture, Semitic or Slavic. She examines the status and functions of liturgical Latin in history and today, by looking at opinions of speakers, theologians, linguists, and philosophers of religion. She also looks at documents in the form of Latin works by medieval Polish preachers and their concern for the understanding of the Latin liturgy by the people. Finally, she shows and stresses the difference between verbal and spiritual understanding present in meditation and that between the tendencies towards sacralization and desacralization.

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Sobczykowa, J. (2023). Latin as a sacral language in its relation to the Polish national language. Forum Lingwistyczne, 11(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.31261/FL.2023.11.1.04

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023)
Published: 2023-06-30


ISSN: 2449-9587
eISSN: 2450-2758
Ikona DOI 10.31261/FL

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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