Category of compositions in the prayer
Linguistics of the turn of the XX – XXI centuries actively studies the religious functional style, which became possible due to changes in Russia’s sociopolitical situation. The subject of this research is the language of religious communication, individual religious genres, and stylistic system. The goal of this article lies in description of the compositional structure of the previously unstudied prayers, as well as in development of their classification. The research was conducted on 120 texts of prayers of the New Apostolic Christians created in the non-liturgical communicative situation. The specificity of creating prayers in this religious community consists in the fact that although each time the texts are written anew, thee are based on the canonical “Lord’s Prayer” , which corresponds to the constructive principle of religious style — proto-textuality. The method of categorical-textual analysis allows establishing that each of the created prayers has compositional structure, containing from one to three compositional blocks in its main part, which correlate with the three key intentions of the prayer — request, gratitude, and praise. The article offers a classification of the prayers based on the number of intentions included in the text, mono-intentional, bi-intentional, and poly-intentional compositional structures of the prayer text. It is determined that the basic compositional structure in the texts of the New Apostolic Christians is the bi-intentional structure, which contains the intentions of gratitude and requests in a strict order. The acquired results can be used in further research of the prayer texts in both, liturgical and non-liturgical communicative situations.