SEMANTIC OPPOSITIONS 'GREY' / 'BROWN', 'WHITE' / 'BLACK' AND THEIR ATTITUDE TO 'PARTICOLOURED' ('CAT' AND 'MOUSE' IN FOLKLORE OF EASTERN AND WESTERN) Cover Image

СЕМАНТИЧЕСКИЕ ОППОЗИЦИИ 'СЕРЫЙ' / 'БУРЫЙ', 'БЕЛЫЙ' / 'ЧЕРНЫЙ' И ИХ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К 'ПЁСТРОМУ' ('КОТ' И 'МЫШЬ' В ФОЛЬКЛОРЕ ВОСТОЧНЫХ И ЗАПАДНЫХ СЛАВЯН)
SEMANTIC OPPOSITIONS 'GREY' / 'BROWN', 'WHITE' / 'BLACK' AND THEIR ATTITUDE TO 'PARTICOLOURED' ('CAT' AND 'MOUSE' IN FOLKLORE OF EASTERN AND WESTERN)

Author(s): Margarita Nadel-Czerwińska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: mythical 'model of the world'; Polish; Ukrainian and Russian folklore; mythological spatial model.

Summary/Abstract: Semantic Oppositions 'grey' / 'brown', 'white' / 'black' and their Attitude to 'particoloured' ('cat' and 'mouse' in Folklore of Eastern and Western Slavs. The folkloremythological world sensation, initial for any national tradition, in its archaics always simulates the world according to the ancient representations about mythical 'model of the world' and under its laws. To the cardinal points of spatial model of the world thus there correspond its north, east, south, west, with the invisible centre. The spatial model is a plane projection of mythological model of the world. As an archetype – in Polish, Ukrainian and Russian folklore the system of the national tradition texts reflects the same mythological spatial model.

  • Issue Year: 54/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 223-228
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Russian