Звукосимволический образный параллелизм в фольклорном тексте

Abstract

The aim of the research is to determine the typological features of the morphogenesis of the sound-symbolic figurative parallelism of the macrocosm and microcosm, whose structural-semantic modifications reflect the evolution of the conceptual and linguistic foundations of one of the leading artistic forms of Russian folklore and the dynamics of the national perception of the world. The paper tests the author’s innovative methodology for the comprehensive study and description of dynamic processes in the language of Russian folklore and the artistic thinking of the people taking into account the heterogeneity and multilayering of the folklore-linguistic substance. The research is novel in that it is the first to use the material of various folklore genres (ritual and non-ritual songs, historical songs, lamentations, ballads, spells and charms, proverbs and sayings, epics, ditties, riddles, omens, bailichkas and byvalschinas, fairy tales, etc.) to carry out a systematic comparative analysis of the main stages of morphogenesis of sound-symbolic figurative parallelism in line with the idea of language anthropocentricity which is fundamental in modern linguistics. Thus, the regularities of form creation, identification markers, classification criteria for structural-semantic modifications were identified, the genre specificity of the device was determined. As a result, it was proved that the typology of sound-symbolic figurative parallelism developed using the material of different folklore genres reflects the morphogenesis of the device at three main stages of its development, each of which has clear identification indicators. At the first stage, symbolic sound complexes are implemented with form and content parallelism; at the second stage, symbolic sound complexes are presented with form parallelism and without content parallelism; at the third stage, symbolic sound complexes function with varying form parallelism and without content parallelism as a result of evolutionary processes occurring within the boundaries of the device.