FORMULATIONS OF WISHES IN THE TRADITIONAL RUSSIAN FOLKLORE AND IN THE INTERNET COMMUNICATION
FORMULATIONS OF WISHES IN THE TRADITIONAL RUSSIAN FOLKLORE AND IN THE INTERNET COMMUNICATION

Author(s): Oleh Tyshchenko
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Media studies, Russian Literature, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: wish; formulas of curses; transformation; Twitter; stylistic device; folk text;
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the processes of transformation of wishes in modern precedent texts and social networks. It also focuses on the messages from Russian Twitter (in which there occur substitutions, omissions, additions, contaminations, occasional coinages or the usage of expressions in their direct meaning). The research presents the results of the origin of expressions Pip to your tongue, No bottom no cover, etc. analysis and reveals their frequency in text corpora from chronological perspective. The origin of these phrases is well known and is recorded in dictionaries and in the usage, speech practice and dialect phraseology of the Russian language and traditional folklore.

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