RITUAL DISCOURSE ABOUT CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS IN BUKOVINIAN DIALECTS: ETHNOCULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC ASPECTS Cover Image

ОБРЯДОВИЙ ДИСКУРС ПРО РІЗДВЯНІ РОЗВАГИ У БУКОВИНСЬКИХ ГОВІРКАХ: ЕТНОКУЛЬТУРНИЙ ТА ЛІНГВІСТИЧНИЙ АСПЕКТИ
RITUAL DISCOURSE ABOUT CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS IN BUKOVINIAN DIALECTS: ETHNOCULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC ASPECTS

Author(s): Natalia Rusnak, Yulia Rusnak
Subject(s): Language studies, Eastern Slavic Languages, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Видавництво ВДНЗ України « Буковинський державний медичний університет »
Keywords: dialect; dialectal text; discourse; cultural term; intertextuality; phonetic dialecticism; speech cliché;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to explore the ethnocultural and linguistic specifics of dialectal discourse about Christmas entertainments in Bukovinian dialects, to describe the relics of the archaic (mythological) thinking of the nationality. Descriptive, structural and comparative-typological research methods as main are used in the article, as well as the method of modeling. With the help of a descriptive method the observation over the actual material was generalized, the structural method enabled to invent and systematize language phenomena, comparative-typological – to emphasize the specifics of language phenomena. Method of modeling is involved for the analysis of the dialectal text structure. Scientific novelty. For the first time in Ukrainian linguistics a systematic analysis of the dialectal discourse about Christmas entertainments on the material of the Bukovinian dialects was done, the linguistic form of the ethnocultural specificity of dialectal text was found out. In the dialectal discourse about Christmas secular nature (dance) and religious-seсular (Christmas ritual singing) entertainments were presented. The analysis of dialectal text has testified existence of a large group of cultural terms, among them there are many local cultural concepts, they are special phrases or idioms which can’t be divided. The category of intertextuality is found in the speech cliché-gratulation.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 129-133
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Ukrainian