In the thesis the author has carried out the linguoculturological analysis of the lexicon semantic modifications in the Ukrainian texts of the Bible of the nineteenthtwentieth centuries: “The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments” (translated by P. Kulish, I. Levytskyi, I. Puliuy), “The Gospel” (translated by P. Morachevskyi) , “The Bible, or the Books of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments” (translated by I. Ohiyenko), “The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments” (translated by I. Khomenko), “The Bible” (the fourth complete translation from the Old Greek language of Hieromonk Rafayil (Father R. Turkoniak)). The dynamics of lexico-semantic processes in research relevant thematic groups of the biblical text have been characterised in the diachronic and synchronic perspective: “theonymic nominations”, “names of a human being”, “names of the clergy”, “names of parts of the human body” (somatysms), “names of occupations”, “names of diseases”, “names of animals”, “names of monetary units”. It has been stated in the research that methodological foundations of modern linguistics, the study of language and speech–thinking processes which man operates in his practical and cognitive activity, are based on anthropocentric paradigm, which predetermines the study of the cultural factor in language, the growth and interest in interaction issues of language and culture, the desire to cognise the peculiarities of religious communication in different cultures and the necessity to establish the nature and mechanisms of changes in the texts of the Bible, determined by the influence of cultural factors. It has been established that a linguoculturological research is cognitive in essence, and therefore can be based in its cultural segment mainly on the background
(historical and cultural) information of the source language and the target language (as in our case), since the linguoculturological analysis differs from the cultural one on the fact that it investigates primarily linguistic units analysing denotativesignificative (conceptual) values. On the basis of the linguoculturological approach the author has determined the peculiarities of historical and modern linguistic facts reflected in Ukrainian biblical texts of the nineteenth-twentieth centuries, has described its structure, a broad historical and cultural analysis of genres, linguistic means for expressing semantics of these texts. Linguistic (linguocultural, linguoculturological) peculiarities of Ukrainian translations have been considered in the context of religious and philosophical researches, which allowed revealing specific features of national translation traditions, due to confessional and linguistic factors, comprehending biblical expressions as linguoculturological units that have not only linguistic content but also retain cultural-national information in time. The dissertation deals with the linguoculturological peculiarities of lexical units in Ukrainian biblical texts in diachronic and synchronic aspect: the author has described the specifics of linguoculturological analysis of the biblical text; has analysed modern directions of the linguistic research of the biblical text; has substantiated the methodology of thematic groups research of lexicon of biblical Ukrainian translations; has established the mechanism and nature of changes in the lexical composition of the selected thematic groups; has determined peculiarities of linguistic modifications in the texts of the Ukrainian versions of the Bible: correspondence / inconsistency of expressing language means in the source text and Ukrainian translations in analysed contexts, as well as in identical contexts in the Ukrainian versions of the Bibles; has displayed occasional meanings of lexemes and followed paradigmatic relations.
Keywords: a linguoculturological analysis, Ukrainian versions of the Bible, semantics, a biblical expression, a thematic group, paradigmatics, syntagmatics.
