Religious-Scientific Text: An Experience of Intertextual Analysis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17072/Keywords:
holism; sacred knowledge; scientific knowledge; epistemic situation; religious-scientific text; intertextuality; text formation.Abstract
The article accentuates the importance of holistic view for current scientific thinking. The purpose of the research is to analyze semantic and structural properties of text formation at the boundary of religion and science. This purpose is realized on the basis of theoretical data of functional stylistics and intertextuality, with the hypothetico-deductive method, definitional and contextual analyses being employed as well. The paper substantiates the introduction of the concept of “religious-scientific text” into the conceptual and terminological apparatus of text linguistics. In the framework of intertextuality, this type of text is defined as an intertext and a form of positive scientific conceptualization of sacredness. The concept of epistemic situation is considered as instrumental in conducting the systemic analysis of the semantics of a religious-scientific text (ontological, methodological, and axiological components of the situation). Ontologically, religious-scientific text is characterized with gnoseological heterogeneity (sacred knowledge / scientific knowledge). Unlike scientific communication, the analyzed type of text lacks new scientific and prognostic knowledge. Methodologically, sacred knowledge is thought of in the context of old scientific knowledge, this represented by linguistic means nominating: 1) scientists; 2) scientific fields; 3) scientific results. Axiologically, sacred knowledge is in accord with old scientific knowledge, which is manifested in linguistic means of identical evaluation representing these two types of knowledge. The structural organization of the type of text under study reflects the regularities of cognitive rational activity at the boundary of religion and science. The compositional pragmatic segment is seen as an operative unit of structural analysis. Specifically, the focus is on the units “background of the problem,” “setting the research purpose (objectives),” “argumentation,” and “conclusion.”
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