Kravchenko N. Synergy of the English Religious Discourse (Theolinguistic Approach)

This thesis focuses on revealing religious (sermon and prayer) discourse synergy which is realized by lingual and extralingual meаns. In the context of Тheolinguistics, modern synthetic humanitarian discipline, a new direction of Cognitive Studies - Theolinguistics of ritual religious discourse - has been formulated and advanced. Theolinguistic approach to comprehensive study of lexical, rhetorical and prosodic features of the English religious discourse revealed its synergy component on all language levels and stated five conditions of synergy attainment based on Anglican Divine Service ritual under study: faith, loyalty to Tradition, involvement, diligence, unity with each other in the name of God.