scholarly journals Cultural and Cognitive Structure of the Omen: Epistemology, Axiology and Pragmatics

wisdom ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-151
Author(s):  
Oleh TYSHCHENKO ◽  
Igor KOROLYOV ◽  
Oleksandra PALCHEVSKA
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Causal Connection ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
World Model ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Folk Tradition

The article presents the cognitive categorization principles in different ritual and non-ritual situations. The semantics, structure and pragmatics of omens as well as that of the related cultural concepts in the archetypal world model is based on ethnosemiotic and cognitive analysis aspects, folklore pragmatics elements and the cultural text verbal magic. The omens realize such significant for folk culture oppositions as good-evil, life-death, top-bottom, male-female, etc., as well as the connection with various traditional culture codes – action, ?bject, zoomorphic, artifactual, sociomorphic, verbal and so on. As a holistic cultural and cognitive macrosign, taken in the unity of functions, conceptospheres and semantic oppositions, the omen is organized according to the principle of situation-event cognitive cluster – action – reaction, forecast – belay, embodied in profiling a cultural prescription or taboo. As a cultural and folklore genre, the omens are based on the collective experience and are fixed in the collective memory as a correlation of two situations (events) that are in causal connection (predictive – predictable) fixed by folk tradition. The main attention is paid to the pragmatic and axiological properties of the omens, epistemological and ontological principles of their organization in the compared Slavic and non-Slavic linguistic (English) cultures.

THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF EMOTIONS AND AXIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS IN SLAVONIC PROVERBS AND IDIOMS: FROM CONSCIENCE TO ENVY

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (29) ◽  
pp. 248-271
Author(s):  
Oleh Tyshchenko
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Legal Aspect ◽  
English Text ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Text Corpora ◽  
Psychic Disorders ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Germanic Languages ◽  
Better Than

The presented research reveals imagery-metaphoric and phraseological objectivities of the conceptual spheres Soul, Consciousness, Envy, Jealousy and Greed in Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech and Slovak languages and conceptual picture of the world (first of all in proverbs and sayings, idioms, imagery means of secondary nomination both in standard language and its regional or dialectal variants) according to the indication of holistic characteristic and semantic intersection of these concepts. It describes the spheres of their typological coincidence and differences from the point of imagery motivation. It defines the symbolic functions of these ethno cultural concepts (object sphere) with respect to the specificity of manifestation of Envy in archaic texts, believes, in the language of traditional folk culture and archaic expressions with religious sense that reach Christian ideology, ideas of moral purity and dirt, Body and Soul. It has been defined the collocations with the components envy and jealousy in some thesauri and dictionaries in terms of the specificity of interlingual equivalence and expressions of envy and similar negative emotions and their functioning in the Ukrainian and English text corpora. The analysis demonstrated that practically in all compared languages and linguistic cultures Envy is associated with greed and jealousy, psychic disorders with a corresponding complex of feelings, expressed by metaphoric predicates of destruction and remorse that encode the moral and legal aspect of conscience (conscience is a judge, witness and executioner). Metaphor of Envy containing nominations of colours differ in the Slavonic and Germanic languages whereas those denoting spatial, gustatory, odour, acoustic and parametrical meaning are similar. Many imagery contexts of Envy correlate with such conceptual oppositions as richness and poverty, light and darkness; success is associated with the frames “foreign is better than domestic” where Envy encodes the meaning of encroachment upon another's property, “envy is better than sympathy”, “envy dominates where there are richness, success, welfare, happiness” which confirms the ideas of representatives in the field of psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology and sociology. In some languages the motives of black magic, evil eye (in Polish, Ukrainian and Russian) are rooted in the sphere of folk believes and invocations, as well as cultural anthroponyms.

IN THE CIRCLE OF THE SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF FOLK TRADITION AND CULTURE. THE CULT OF SAINT ROCH – A PATRON SAINT OF PLAGUE VICTIMS

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 309-320
Author(s):  
Barbara Klasińska
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Folk Medicine ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
The Social ◽  
Folk Tradition

The aim of the paper is to present the cult of St. Roch in the context of the role of a patron protecting against diseases, traditionally assigned to him. First the person of St. Roch is characterized, then the qualities of folk medicine are presented, and finally, the traditional ways of preventing and treating some illnesses are shown. Nowadays, knowledge about that seems very important in upbringing and should be transmitted and cherished not only as the testimony of life and struggle with problems of previous generations, but first of all because of the values inherent to folk culture and traditional medicine, such as unlimited patient care, serving the suffering and staying at the margin of social life

The Raw Material Development and Application for Shui Nationality Traditional Costumes

2014 ◽  
Vol 952 ◽  
pp. 145-148
Author(s):  
Chao Zhang ◽  
Xiao Jun Zhu ◽  
Lin Guo ◽  
Ren Ping Xu
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Materials Development ◽  
Material Development ◽  
Starting Point

According to the traditional decorative materials of Guizhou Shui Nationality traditional costumes as the starting point, this paper explores the effect of traditional dress decoration materials faced by the current situation as well as new decorative materials development and application of the traditional culture, the conflict and decorations visual effect. Therefore, proposed in the new environment of market economy, it is necessary to make the development and application of dress traditional materials in order to meet the ever-changing market demand, and also to the protection and inheritance of traditional techniques and characteristics of the Shui Nationality decoration visual aesthetic of art and decoration materials contained in the folk culture. The purpose is to express its application value for the diversified development of world culture and art.

scholarly journals Fine arts and folk culture included in Indian painting

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 141-146
Author(s):  
Kanchan Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Manufactured Goods ◽  
Indian Painting ◽  
Folk Tradition

India is an ancient cultural country. Art is a product of human culture. Its rise is reflective of the beauty of man. The unique fusion of folk art is seen in the art and culture here. Many scholars have periodically stated the importance of folk art. Folk art is a mirror of folk tradition culture in our country. Which can be seen in various rituals. Folk art can be seen in various forms in different provinces like India. Which is known by various names.Although these useful items of daily life were not made with the goal of fine arts, yet the end of the art of collective life is visible to us and it is not wrong to call them artistic objects. Along with the development of civilization, man did not leave a useful notion in his manufactured goods, but by his fluidity his fluidity made him beautiful product for fine arts in some quantity.   भारत एक प्राचीन सांस्कृतिक देश है। कला मानव संस्कृति की उपज है। इसका उदय मानव की सौन्दर्य भावना का परिचायक है। यहाँ की कला एवं संस्कृति में लोककला का अनूठा समन्वय दिखाई देता है। अनेक विद्वानों ने समय-समय पर लोककला के महत्त्व को बताया है। लोककलाऐं हमारे देश में लोक परम्पराओं संस्कृति का दर्पण है। जो विभिन्न रीति रिवाज उत्सव में देखे जा सकते है। भारत जैसें देश में विभिन्न प्रान्तों में विविध रूपों में लोककला देखी जा सकती है। जो विभिन्न नामों से जानी जाती है।दैनिक जीवन की इन उपयोगी वस्तुओं का निर्माण यद्यपि ललित कला के लक्ष्य से नहीं हुआ, तथापि सामूहिक जीवन की कलाप्रियता का अंष हमें इसमें दृष्टिगोचर होता है और इन्हें कलात्मक वस्तुएँ कहे तो गलत नहीं होगा। सभ्यता के विकास के साथ-साथ मानव ने अपनी निर्मित वस्तुओं में उपयोगी धारणा को नहीं छोड़ा परन्तु उसकी कलाप्रियता ने अपनी प्रवाहशीलता द्वारा कुछ मात्रा में उन्हें ललित कला के लिये सुन्दर उपादान बना दिया।

scholarly journals Traditional family rites of the Ukrainians of Podolia: archaic elements of а cultural text

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
Inna Gorofyanyuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Family Rituals ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Verbal Component ◽  
The One

Podolia is an ethnographic region of Ukraine, which is known for active interethnic contacts for many centuries, which, on the one hand, have systematically enriched the Podolsk spiritual and material culture, and on the other hand, in various spheres of the traditional culture of the Podolians, there is a preservation of many Slavic archaic elements. The article presents the archaic elements of the traditional culture of the Ukrainians of Podolia in traditional family rituals – birthlore, wedding and funeral on the material of the verbal component of the cultural text. Field records of dialectal texts, made by the author in 2006–2014 in more than 100 villages of Vinnitsa region served as empirical basis of the study. The family rites texts attest the realization of the main semantic oppositions of the Slavic picture of the world: "top" – "bottom", "full" – "empty", "own" – "alien". The motives of the cult of ancestors, deception of death, syncretism of agrarian and family rituals are elements of the archaic, which constitute an essential part of the folk consciousness and beliefs of the Podolians. Several fragments of the folk culture of the Ukrainians of Podolia presented in the article through the prism of the comparative typological analysis, with the involvement of data from other Slavic traditions, signal the preservation of the general archaic fund of the spiritual culture of the Slavs

scholarly journals Folk dance: the problem of definition, demarcation and historical transformation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (118) ◽  
pp. 189-194
Author(s):  
Anna S. Polyakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Specific Model ◽  
Folk Dance ◽  
Dance Culture ◽  
Collective Representation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Folk Tradition ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Historical Periods

Folk dance is an integral part of modern choreographic culture. At the same time, the definition of its place and role in modern artistic realities is complicated not only by understanding the boundaries of this phenomenon, but also by contradictory approaches to understanding its essence. Folk dance is also understood as folk dance, or vice versa, later layers of dance culture, not associated with ritual actions. Also, some researchers put forward the thesis that folk dance is only an area for – traditional culture, as well as the phenomena of everyday dance culture that are entrenched in the folk tradition. Quite often in modern choreographic culture, folk dance is likened to the concept of «folk stage dance» – a kind of specific model of folk dance culture, created and embodied in the conditions of the stage space. And this, as will be discussed in this article, is not legitimate. All these processes are not accidental. To a certain extent, they demonstrate the difficulties in the formation of the very phenomena related to folk dance: from traditional forms to stage versions of its representation. This article defines the boundaries of the definition of «folk dance», gives its periodization in accordance with the cultural and historical periods, and also highlights the main sources of its formation. Particular attention is paid to identifying the specific features of folk dance, among which the most vividly highlighted: ritual and ceremonial basis, syncretism, synthetism, special mentality, anonymity, heterofunctional character, imitativeness, improvisational character, tradition and rules of performance, the relationship with the musical and song basis, its collective representation. The article outlines a culturological approach to further understanding the phenomenon of «folk dance» in scientific discourse.

Analysis of the Aesthetic and Ethical Content of Folk Speech Texts at a Lesson-investigation

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Marina A. Ostrenkova
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
School Education ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Cultural Information ◽  
Ethical Content ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values

This article is devoted to the methods of acquainting students with the language of traditional culture (folklore) in school education. Such knowledge is expected to promote students’ awareness of the ethical and aesthetic values inherent in folk culture texts. A search for cultural information can be performed through a linguocultural study. This article presents such a research study entitled “Zachem ranshe zazyvali vesnu” (Why did they use to invite spring) aimed at revealing the specific features of folk texts that were used by Russian people to make spring to come. The semantics of textual artefacts is analysed in terms of their ethical and aesthetic significance.

Hungarian cultural and linguistic borrowings in the folk tradition of Burgenland Croats in Hungary and Slovakia

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-106
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
World View ◽  
World War ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Neighboring Population ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
Folk Tradition ◽  
Important Marker

Abstract The work which forms the bulk of the present study was carried out on the basis of numerous pieces of field material collected by means of an ethnolinguistic questionnaire in villages inhabited by Burgenland Croats in Western Hungary and Southern Slovakia (where part of the Hungarian territory was annexed after World War II). The field data contain a number of latent and obvious borrowings from Hungarian folk culture. By latent borrowings we mean cultural phenomena that were initially feebly expressed in a particular tradition (and tended to be lost), but during long coexistence with a neighboring heterogeneous tradition they were eventually maintained due to the developed state of the similar phenomena in the neighboring population. We also include here cultural phenomena that are typical of both traditions and have deep roots in the universal model of the naive world view. Analyzing the popular culture and dialects of enclave villages of Burgenland Croats in Hungary and Slovakia, we show that traditional folk culture with the corresponding vocabulary nevertheless acts as an important marker of identity for the population living in a foreign language environment.

Mărul, funcții și valențe simbolice

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 76-92
Author(s):  
Marius Ciprian Pop ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Greek Mythology ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Folk Tradition ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Axis Mundi

In the universal beliefs, there are over twenty species of sacred trees considered as the center of the universe, ‘axis mundi’, and the apple is among the trees of these species. In our traditional culture, the apple has a bivalent symbolism magically and Christian religiously, representing the aspect of interdiction and only of reward. As a reflection of the influence of the Greek mythology, one also could find it as a symbol of love, ecstasy, fertility and abundance. According to the belief that each man has a correspondent in the vegetal world, the apple becomes “tree of destiny” accompanying the terrestrial existence in the following stages: birth, marriage, death. From birth the baby accompanies his life with its planting tree in the farmstead yard, and it will support the good way of his life, the one of passing to the world beyond. The multitude and the diversity of the customs and of the passage rituals clearly support the showed statements. It is also necessary to mention the symbolic, juridical valence that apple has in understanding the ancient mythology found in the dispute on the theme of beauty of the Gods Hera, Aphrodite and Athens, known as ‘the marriage of discord’, which defines this aspect. The complementarity of the apple with the fir tree, which is always seconded, is specific to our folk tradition in the context in which both trees have important roles in the mythology of life and death. The space of carols is often marked by the existence of a cosmic tree, the apple of the fir tree, which sums up much of the spiritual activities of our people. Like the fir tree, which is evergreen, the apple, which is preserved as a fruit over the winter, it becomes a symbol of the eternal longing seen in the wishes of passing between years, and as a symbol of fertility, one can find the apple ‘in the breast’ or in the incantation ‘White Apple Flowers’. Therefore, as a reflection of the solar cult, the apple is a landmark in the millennial existence of our nation.

Fortunetellers and Sorcerers in the Service of a Russian Aristocrat of the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Chamberlain Petr Saltykov

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 364-380
Author(s):  
Elena B. Smilianskaia
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Supplementary Information ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Imperial Court ◽  
The Masses

The case of Petr Saltykov, which stretched on between 1758 and 1765, with a surprising coda in 1796, is noteworthy in many respects. The material collected in connection with Saltykov’s crime is useful for an investigation into magic belief as such, offering parallels and supplementary information to the dozens of “magic trials” of the 18th century. However, what makes the Saltykov case unique is how the chancellor’s “superstition” managed so compellingly to bring together two cultures – traditional folk culture and the “Europeanized” culture of the imperial court. The case of Saltykov’s “sorcery” brought the diametrically opposed cultures of the court elite and the masses into confrontation. But even opposites can come together. As it turned out, the magic beliefs of the masses and medical practices of archaic traditional culture continued to attract adherents at court, getting along just fine in a high-culture, “Europeanized” environment. The chasm that lay between the culture of the aristocratic court elite and popular culture in the 18th century was not unbridgeable, although possible intersections of these two cultures sometimes took on rather strange configurations.

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