Religionym and confessionym

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Religionym (from

proper names that designate religious adherents (like: Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Muslims). In scholarly literature, both terms (religionym and confessionym) are sometimes also used in much broader meaning, as designations for all terms that are semantically related to religious (confessional) terminology.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

In the English-speaking world,

lexical corpus that encompasses various words, terms and expressions that are related to the religious sphere of life is most commonly referred to as religious lexis, or religious lexicon.[9]
Those linguistic terms cover all of those widest meanings that were occasionally assigned (by some authors) to the terms religionym and confessionym, thus relieving them of such general uses, and consequently allowing the standardization of more specific uses for both of those terms.

In recent years, several scholarly attempts were made in order to differentiate between the existing uses, and thus define the preferred meanings of those terms, but no general agreement has been reached among scholars, and the use of both terms continues to depend on the context given to them by individual authors, in accordance with their preferred terminological traditions.[10][11]

The problem of linguistic standardization of various

onomastic terms. Such issues have gained importance in scholarly circles, since international surveys among experts revealed the existence of similar challenging issues, related to the process of terminological standardization within the field.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ Seiwert 1982, p. 123-124.
  2. ^ Bromley 1984, p. 11.
  3. ^ Wodak 2001, p. 82.
  4. ^ Reisigl & Wodak 2001, p. 50, 68, 114, 116.
  5. ^ Brechelmacher 2002, p. 295.
  6. ^ Wolf 2005, p. 126-127.
  7. ^ Zaynullin & Khabibullina 2017, p. 285-291.
  8. ^ Adamczak-Krysztofowicz & Szczepaniak-Kozak 2017, p. 298.
  9. ^ Chase 1988.
  10. ^ Balkanski 2012, p. 9–16.
  11. ^ Pawlas 2019, p. 35–47.
  12. ^ Harvalík & Caffarelli 2007, p. 181-220.

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