Abstract—The new branch of linguistics, emotive
ecolinguistics, offers an analysis of the traditional material
from a fresh perspective. It helps to examine the Gothic word
gadrauhts in the texts of the Gothic Bible through emotivity
and ecology. The analysis showed that the concept 'an
ecological / non-ecological text' directly depends on the time of
the text was written, the culture and tradition of the people.
We found out that Gothic gadrauhts, whether a neologism or a
rethought word from an existing one, could become a
‘balancing’ word for Wulfila. On the one hand, it belonged to
the spiritual sphere. On the other hand, it did not contradict
the traditional values of an ancient Germanic warrior. In other
words, Gothic gadrauhts supposed to be ecological for both a
Christian Goth and a pagan Goth, i.e., to be emotionally
positive or neutral. As a result, we established that all contexts
with Gothic gadrauhts were ecological since they did not oppose
the ancient Germanic worldview and described Wulfila's ideas
about the true soldier of Christ.
Index Terms—Ecological / non-ecological, emotive
ecolinguistics, Gothic gadrauhts, the Gothic Bible.
Elena A. Sorokina is with Volgograd State Pedagogical University,
Volgograd, Russia (e-mail: sorokinaelena8@gmail.com).
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Cite:Elena A. Sorokina, "Gothic Bible through Emotive Ecolinguistics," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 194-197, 2020.