Animalistic code in folklore texts (on the example of the Yakut riddles)
https://doi.org/10.25587/SVFU.2022.75.15.011
Abstract
Folklore, which has developed among the bearers of a particular culture for many centuries, is a source of special information that can be revealed through visual, verbal, object-related codes and attributes of material and spiritual culture. Codes in folklore, even in its small genres, are considered a multi-layered information structure, which must be analyzed in the context of a general cultural background. In the article we investigate a zoomorphic code verbalized in the texts of the Yakut riddles and representing the archaic model of the world. The objectives of the study are the following: selection of riddles with a key zoomorphic code; analysis of metaphorical links between the answer and its figurative description; classification of denotations into thematic groups; interpretation of the results in the context of worldview, mythological and cultural relativism. Thus, at different stages we applied methods of unselected sampling, contextual, semantic, semiotic and interpretive analyses. The objects of the study were lexical units representing zoomorphic images that figuratively describe various objects and phenomena. The main conclusions of the study are that the texts of the Yakut riddles reflect the traditional system of the people’s worldview. A promising area of research is the study of zoomorphic code in the context of the ScythianHun archetypal traditions preserved in the Yakut folklore.
About the Authors
V. V. Filippova
Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Filippova Varvara Vasilievna – Candidate of Philological Sciences, Head of the Encyclopedia Department
Yakutsk
S. V. Filippova
M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Filippova Sargylana Vasilievna – Candidate of of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of English Philology
Yakutsk
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Filippova V.V., Filippova S.V. Animalistic code in folklore texts (on the example of the Yakut riddles). Arctic XXI Сentury. 2022;(4):131-143. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25587/SVFU.2022.75.15.011
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