Этническая ментальность в контексте фольклорной культуры

Abstract

The study of a foreign language is inseparable from the understanding of the culture of its speakers, and the study of culture will inevitably touch on the national features of ethnicity. The character of ethnos is due to and at the same time is the guiding vector at the moment of interpretation of the life of the people, the history and culture. The paper analyses in a comparative view the French and the Russian folk songs and the Spanish romance with a similar initial situation and different options of development/stagnation of intrigue, which is due to the exclusivity of national worldview and is a bright example of its implementation. The local diversity of dynamic stereotypes is determined both by the specifics of the performance of folklore, formed historically during the process of oral translation in conditions of continuity and variability, and often by extramusical factors. The long lyrical reflections from the first person (Russian, Spanish versions) contrast the cheerful novelist message from the third person (French version). A certain convergence between Spanish and Russian variants (opposed to the French one) of the interpretation of the topic under consideration is explained by the thesis on the proximity of Russian and Spanish souls, which, in turn, is due to the border specificity of the linguistic and cultural space of Russian-speaking and Spanish-speaking civilization models.