THE STYLE OF RELIGION.

The main aims -- expressing religious belief on public occasions, explaining the existing world, regulating individual/group behaviour.

Elements of the rel style may be used also in literature, in the daily colloquial speech in the form of allusions, quotations, set expressions and create humour ( … the place where Strickland lived had the beauty of the Garden of Eden...; prodigal son).

The religious style is realized in numerous forms and practices: the texts from the Bible, books of prayers and religious hymns, common prayers, sermons, songs, psalms, theological discourse, the language of the Divine Liturgy and different Christian rites...

According to D. Crystal and D. Davy it falls into at least three substyles: 1) the biblical substyle, 2) the liturgical substyle, and 3) the theological discourse substyle.

Phonological and graphological feat: 1)feat of a prayer spoken in unison by the congregation is monotony and frequent level tones. 2)prayers spoken by one person -- narrowness of pitch range & drop in the pitch at the end. 3) slowing down and increasing of the pace of articulation (to distinguish some words of particular imp) 5)In writing are used typographical techniques (italics, bold type, different colours, small type, etc.) 6) Capitali-zation draws attention to some imp wds (e.g. Lord, God, Father, Son, The Holy Spirit, etc.). 7)Paragraphs can be numbered.

Grammatical featu res Syntax is characterized by:1)the use of complete, complex and compound sentences; 2)the tendency towards coordination (within the sentence as well as within nominal and verbal groups); 3)frequent occurrence of inverted wd order( wide was the gate and great was the fall of it), detachment, parallel constructions (accompanied by lexical and root repetition: judge- judgment), anaphora, epiphora, polysyndeton, 4) the use of the archaic pronouns (e.g. thou, thy, etc.) and verb forms (e.g. Father himself loveth you; thou asketh, etc.), the use of the direct address.

Vocabulary : 1) rich imagery created by similes, metaphors, metonymies, epithets (false prophets.. are wolves, good tree bringeth forth good fruit). 2)archaic words (serpent, a publican for a person who collected taxes). 3)the wds and combinations belong to the formal or elevated layers (to glorify, to have mercy, sacred). 4)frequent oppositions (seek – find, ask – receive, bread-stone). 5)special terms (prophecy, virtue, sin, vice, sacrifice, etc.) – religious vocabulary that is connected with the concept of God.

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

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