Reflections on Trancelingualism. Insights from Sacral Communication in Folk Poetry and Traditional Singing

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dc.contributor.authorLovász Irén
dc.contributor.departmentTársadalom- és Kommunikációtudományi Intézet
dc.contributor.departmentKommunikáció- és Médiatudományi Tanszék
dc.contributor.institutionKRE - Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Kar
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-16T10:56:09Z
dc.date.available2026-06-16T10:56:09Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.description.abstractThe article gives a brief introduction to the author’s notion of sacral communication. The concept, referring to a field as a cultural universal, provides a relevant approach to the multidisciplinary fields of communication theory and anthropology of arts and religion as well. Spiritual and religious language, or trancelingualism, is a component of sacral communication, but the latter encompasses additional nonverbal elements as well. This study focuses on the multimodal manifestation of trancelingualism within the context of sacral communication, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. This study argues that trancelingualism in folk poetry cannot be disentangled from translingualism, which opens intertextual dimensions that not only exist within the productive dimensions of that specific language but also transcend cultural boundaries. Among scientific studies on religious language and magical power of words, this study refers to basic scholars such as Maurice Bloch. To better understand the mechanism of religious and artistic texts, it suggests applying the autocommunication concept of Juri Lotman. By using these theoretic frames, the author tries to find relations of the pragmatic use of traditional singing, folk poetry and archaic folk prayers in the Hungarian oral tradition using code-switching.
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dc.format.page47-59 p.
dc.identifier.citationLovász Irén: Reflections on Trancelingualism. Insights from Sacral Communication in Folk Poetry and Traditional Singing. In: Domokos Johanna (szerk.): Translingualism in mystical poetry. Reflections across Global Literatures. Budapest - Paris, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary - Éditions L'Harmattan, 2026. 47-59 p.
dc.identifier.isbn978-2-336-54723-7
dc.identifier.issn2063-3297
dc.identifier.mtmt37100113
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14834/14519
dc.languageangol
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherKároli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
dc.publisherÉditions L'Harmattan
dc.relation.ispartofDomokos Johanna (szerk.): Translingualism in mystical poetry. Reflections across Global Literatures. Budapest - Paris, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary - Éditions L'Harmattan, 2026. 208 p.
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dc.subjectvallásantropológia ; szakrális kommunikáció ; transzlingvalizmus ; folklorisztika
dc.subject.mabBölcsészettudományok::Nyelvtudományok
dc.titleReflections on Trancelingualism. Insights from Sacral Communication in Folk Poetry and Traditional Singing
dc.title.seriesKároli könyvek. Monográfia
dc.typeBook chapter
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