Актуализация ОБРАЗОВ И стереотипов ОБЫДЕННОГО и профессионального СОЗНАНИЯ в устных рассказах о челябинском метеорите

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of images and stereotypes of everyday and professional consciousness represented in oral stories about the Chelyabinsk meteorite. The stories include various linguistic means for describing and considering the unique phenomenon that occurred on the morning of February 15, 2013. For the first time in the world history a large space body (in scientific terms an asteroid, meteoroid or bolide) flew and exploded over an industrialized and densely populated region, causing considerable destruction. The article views the stories of people who witnessed the event. Some of these stories were recorded in different years and stored in the folklore archive of the South Ural State Humanitarian and Pedagogical University, others were published in the popular science book “Chelyabinsk Superbolide” and the newspaper of Chelyabinsk State University “University Embankment.” The authors of the article consider that the stories reflect the subjective image of the objective world, largely due to the experience of people. The basis for the storytellers’ describing and interpreting what they saw and experienced includes either ordinary images and stereotypes (fire, car headlights, fireworks, building noise), or images and stereotypes characteristic of professional consciousness (shock wave, inversion trail, welding arc radiation, etc.) A certain part of the oral stories about the Chelyabinsk meteorite demonstrates the transition from the use of images and stereotypes of everyday consciousness to understanding the event in line with the folklore tradition. The analysis proved that a person’s cognitive activity relies on existing knowledge schemes, on the one hand, and is focused on the conceptual system of a particular individual, on the other hand.