Semantyka spotkania w tradycyjnej kulturze Słowian
THE SEMANTICS OF MEETINGS IN TRADITIONAL SLAVONIC CULTURE
Author(s): Margarita V. ŽujkovaContributor(s): Maria Borciuch (Translator), Mateusz Jastrzębski (Translator)
Subject(s): Anthropology, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: meeting; traditional culture of the Slavs; scenario; etiquette; Bayburin; ritual meetings; casual meetings
Summary/Abstract: In traditional cultures, both planned and accidental meetings are understood as semiotic events. The scenario of a meeting is therefore subjected to an etiquette of cultural rules. Following Bayburin, meetings are here classified according to the degree of semiotic load into maximally meaningful (ritual meetings), minimally meaningful (informal and casual) and those whose semiotic value varies. The ones from the first category are prognosticative and may reveal future to the participants (meeting a woman with empty buckets forecasts misfortune, meeting a wolf — good fortune). In the article, examples are analyzed from the East-Slavonic tradition and attention is paid to numerous beliefs concerning the hidden meaning of meetings present in language (in lexis and proverbs).
Journal: Etnolingwistyka. Problemy Języka I Kultury
- Issue Year: 12/2000
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 39-52
- Page Count: 14
- Language: Polish