RELIGIOUS VOCABULARY IN THE EXPLANATORY DICTIONARY AND STYLISTIC INFORMATION ABOUT IT

The paper considers the religious vocabulary of the modern Russian standard language and discusses issues of its stylistic description in the explanatory dictionary. Stylistic information about a word can be communicated by means of stylistic labels, usage notes and illustrative examples. Special attention is paid to the experience of using combinations of the labels церк. (church) и религ. (religious) with other stylistic labels in the dictionaries of the XX — early XXI century. An analysis of the lexical units брань² (‘war, battle’), сродник (‘relative’), человечество (‘human nature’) is presented in order to clarify their stylistic characteristics, and author’s versions of dictionary entries are proposed. An attempt is made to show that a number of words marked in explanatory dictionaries as устар. (obsolete) continue to be actively used in modern religious texts, and therefore it is proposed to use the combination устар. и церк. (устар. и религ.) for these words. The accumulation of linguistic facts similar to those analyzed in the publication is aimed at a more perfect dictionary description of religious vocabulary, as well as the formation of a more complete understanding of the stylistic resources of the modern Russian standard language as a whole. A more accurate stylistic description of a word may be accompanied by its more detailed semantic description.