Folk Superstitions as an Element of the Folklore Picture of the World of Bilinguals

Abstract

Folklore superstitions as one of the most ancient genres of the folk literature, represent a verbalized form of the conceptual picture of the world of a nation, reflecting its national features of the worldview. The article represents the results of the comparative linguacultural analysis of Russian and Greek folk superstitions and describes the study of the national-cultural specificity of the folklore picture of the world of the Greek-Russian bilinguals living in Cyprus, based on the experiment aimed at the detection of the level of proficiency of the bilingual children 1116 years old in the ethnic and cultural background of the Russian and Greek folklore units represented by folk superstitions and weather lore sayings.

Keywords

• bilingualism
• folklore picture of the world
• weather lore sayings
• folklore superstitions