Winter Ritual Terminology and Symbolism in Slavic Languages: a Comparative Aspect Cover Image

Зимняя обрядовая терминология и символика в славянских языках: сравнительный аспект
Winter Ritual Terminology and Symbolism in Slavic Languages: a Comparative Aspect

Author(s): Olena Voytseva, Svitlana Georgiieva
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Semiotics / Semiology, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Lexis, Comparative Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: rite; terminology; symbol; nomination; Bulgarian language; Polish language
Summary/Abstract: Folk terminology is an expression of the national specificity of cultures and in this sense its study is promising within the framework of the emerging trends of European thinking of the early XXI century. In this article an attempt is made to study the taxonomic group of chrononyms from the side of their formal structure and genesis. Chrononyms unite in themselves the properties of onomastic and appellative lexis: as a rule, it is not a conditional „name“, but a denomination closely connected with the denotation and designe. The topic receives a complex linguistic-cultural interpretation from the point of view of modern scientific thought about the complex phenomenon of language - culture.