ANALYSIS OF NOMINAL INVOCATION PHRASE IN PRAYERS BY THE LAKE BY ST. NIKOLAI OF OHRID AND ŽIČA AND ITS ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Abstract
Language is a powerful tool which can render divine beings perceptible and
compelling to our senses by a prayer, which is manifested through it and which weaves multiple
communicative functions in its structure. Therefore, a linguistic examination of prayer could
yield insightful and provoking results. This paper will focus on the English translation of the
most prominent work by Nikolai Velimirović, Prayers by the Lake, where he interprets great
Christian truths by way of a dialogue between a man and God. The authors intend to examine
the grammatical structures used to perform the communicative function of invocation. The
corpus analysis gives a valuable insight into the pattern of the nominal invocation phrase and
its varieties. In addition, the paper will tackle the translation solutions for the invocation phrases.
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