Етноконцепт ВІТЕР у народній обрядовості та світобаченні українців (на прикладі фразеології Середнього Полісся)

Abstract

One of the urgent tasks in the field of modern phraseology is the ethnopsychological and linguocultural analysis of concepts symbolic of the Ukrainian people. An ethno-concept symbolizing one of the most powerful natural elements – wind – was chosen for consideration. The significance of the image of the wind in Ukrainian culture is demonstrated through the prism of folk diversity, but the symbolism of the wind is best revealed in phraseological units, since it is in the semantics and structure of fixed sayings that relict information about traditional ways of managing the economy, customs and beliefs, family relationships and other spheres of life of the Ukrainian people is contained. Phraseologisms are an extremely ancient and powerful layer of language, which is studied according to various aspects (semantic, structural, ideographic, cognitive, stylistic, associative-figurative), but today the conceptual approach to the processing of phraseological units is becoming more and more relevant, because the concept serves to explain units of worldview or mental resources of our consciousness and that information structure that reflects human knowledge and experience; it is an operative unit of memory, mental lexicon, conceptual system and language of the brain, the whole picture of the world, which is reflected in the human psyche. A comprehensive analysis of the ethno-concept of the wind is unconditional evidence of the entry of Ukrainian spiritual culture into the world mythological space.