Author: Turakhonova, Badia Omonillayevna

Annotation: This study presents a text-linguistic typological classification of sacred texts, shifting the analytical focus from traditional theological frameworks to internal structural, functional, and rhetorical profiles. Utilizing a qualitative comparative discourse analysis framework, the study evaluates a diverse corpus of Abrahamic and Dharmic scriptures based on three operational variables: attribution of authorship, macro-genre, and deontic force. The linguistic analysis reveals four primary structural categories of sacred texts: revelatory/manifested, historical/narrative, sapiential/wisdom, and legal/ritual prescriptions. The findings indicate that despite profound theological variations, the structural configurations of sacred discourse converge significantly across global traditions, aligning closely with universal cognitive schemas. This structural unity highlights the shared cognitive and linguistic mechanisms underlying religious language and its socio-cultural institutional functions.

Keywords: text linguistics, sacred texts, typology, comparative discourse analysis, macro-genre, deontic modality.

Pages in journal: 580 - 583