ALCOHOL IN MYTHIC SPACE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY LINGUO-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
ALCOHOL IN MYTHIC SPACE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY LINGUO-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
Author(s): Oleksandr KolesnykSubject(s): Customs / Folklore, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive linguistics, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: Alcohol; beer; semantics; myth; categorization; system; worldview; culture;
Summary/Abstract: This article addresses verbal means of denoting ALCOHOL in the context of the “mythic space”. Mythic space is regarded as the focal segment of a language worldview, the container of irrational axiomatic data quanta that function as basic categorization operators at different stages of civilization’s development. Primal “nano-myths” are reconstructed via etymological analysis of alcohol-containing beverages’ names in different European languages. The article discusses semantics and linguo-cognitive premises of the language signs denoting alcohol beverages in archaic Germanic worldview and in the presentday English-based pop-cultural worldview. The paper suggests a synthetic interdisciplinary interpretation of linguo-cultural implications of the said semantic and cognitive models.
Journal: Cogito - Multidisciplinary research Journal
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 238-263
- Page Count: 26
- Language: English