Contrastive Analysis of the Vocabulary of Popular and Academic Scientific Papers in the Field of Theology in the Serbian Language Summary

Abstract

The specific traits of the methodology of theology as well as the peculiari-ties of its scientific knowledge inevitably influence the extralinguistic and intralinguistic features of theological scientific works, which is especially reflected in the lexical layer. This paper deals with the analysis of the vocabulary of popular scientific theological works of eminent authors in the Serbian language in relation to academic papers as basic representatives of the scientific style of theology. The results obtained by statistical analysis of the vocabulary of the works of the two mentioned substyles enabled their contrastive analysis. In addition, atypical elements were pointed out – the expressive and emotional markers and stylistic figures of popular science theological works. © 2021, Faculty of Philology Banja Luka. All rights reserved.