TY - JOUR AU - Żurawlew, Tomasz PY - 2021/09/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Gottes Mühlen mahlen langsam [mahlen aber trefflich fein]... Zum Bild Gottes in der deutschen Phraseologie JF - Acta Neophilologica JA - an VL - 2 IS - XXIII SE - Językoznawstwo DO - 10.31648/an.6657 UR - https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/an/article/view/6657 SP - 83-94 AB - <p><span dir="ltr" style="left: 174.201px; top: 752.696px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.26004);" role="presentation">The aim of this publication was to reconstruct the image of God that </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 98.841px; top: 770.696px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.19667);" role="presentation">has been perpetuated in the German language through fixed collocations. Based on </span> <span dir="ltr" style="left: 98.841px; top: 788.696px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.12131);" role="presentation">a methodological reflection, the author attempted to determine which of God’s attributes </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 98.841px; top: 806.696px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.16654);" role="presentation">are conveyed in these expressions. Attempts were also made to identify the linguistic </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 98.841px; top: 824.696px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.21492);" role="presentation">mechanisms that contributed to that process. The author concluded that the image </span> <span dir="ltr" style="left: 98.841px; top: 842.696px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.10005);" role="presentation">of God present in German phraseology was clearly consistent with the biblical worldview. </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 98.841px; top: 860.696px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.22783);" role="presentation">In the German language, God is depicted as someone good, just, trustworthy, but </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 98.841px; top: 878.696px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.1646);" role="presentation">sometimes also wrathful and stern. According to the beliefs conveyed by the German </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 98.841px; top: 896.696px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.14443);" role="presentation">language, God dwells in heaven, from which He rules over the world as God almighty. </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 98.841px; top: 914.696px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.17621);" role="presentation">God is portrayed explicitly or implicitly, often through metaphorical and metonymic </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 98.841px; top: 932.696px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.20775);" role="presentation">structures. God’s attributes are frequently portrayed in a language whose modality </span> <span dir="ltr" style="left: 98.841px; top: 950.696px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.18879);" role="presentation">is full of reverence and supplication and is indicative of man’s dependence on Him, </span> <span dir="ltr" style="left: 98.841px; top: 968.696px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.1475);" role="presentation">as well as through the use of exclusively adulatory vocabulary. </span></p> ER -