Lexical Representations of Opposition "Self - Foreign" in Old Believers Spiritual Verse
The religious and axiological model of the world of the Old Believers reconstructed on the material of spiritual verse is considered. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to maintain the Old Believers' spiritual values. The results of the analysis of the implementation of the opposition “self - foreign” in spiritual texts are given. The author dwells on what the Old Believers put in the concepts “self” and “foreign”. The variants of the opposition are described as a semantic field which is divided into the following sectors: “righteousness - sin”, “power of the Cross - power of Christ's enemies”, “desert - world”, “antiquity - innovation”, “life - death”. The attention is given to the content of each of the opposing concepts within the sector. The question about the relationship between the selected sectors of the semantic field and thematic division of poems is raised. The examples of phonetic, word formation, morphological, lexical signs of Church Slavonic are given. It is proved that the opposition of righteousness and sin is the central vector of the implementation of the opposition “self - foreign”. It actualise in the verse connection between the opposition “self - foreign” and universal semantic oppositions “top - bottom”, “East - West”, “right - left”. The juxtaposition “righteousness - sin” as the central implementation of the opposition “self - foreign” underlies the philosophy of Old Believers and determines their behaviour.