PROPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS AS A WAY OF REVEALING UNDERLYING CULTURAL MEANINGS IN THE TEXT OF OMENS

Abstract

Background. The importance of the study is due to the attention to the picture of the world, the logic of mythopoetic thinking and mythopoetic representations of nature inherent in the Russian folk consciousness. Purpose. The article analyses the types and structure of event propositions of Russian ornithological omens with subjective dominance. Materials and methods. The material is about 350 Russian ornithological omens with a subjective dominant. The sources of the study are dictionaries of the Russian language and collections of omens, beliefs, superstitions, as well as works on Russian omens. The main method of research is the analysis of propositions. In addition, such methods as the method of classification and ethno-cultural analysis were used in the work. Results. The analysis of the types and structure of the event proposition in Russian ornithological omens with the subject dominant revealed the actual elements of the propositional semantics of this type of omens: these are the propositions “(over)movement” and “action”. Several semantic layers of the text of omens have been studied: proper propositional, intra-propositional and prepositional. It shows the advantage of propositional analysis in comparison with the cognitive (frame) and structural-semantic analysis of Russian folk omens, widespread in modern linguistics, which is that the propositional analysis of omens allows to identify models that reflect ways of cognition and evaluation of reality. Practical implications. The results of the analysis can be used to describe small folklore genres, as well as in pedagogical activities, in particular in the teaching of folklore.

Keywords

• propositional analysis
• cultural meanings
• ornithological omens of the russian language