Abstract
Comparisons are widely used in the genres of Yakut folklore, in particular, in the Yakut heroic epic olonkho. Each olonkhosut uses comparisons in order to give poetry, beauty, vitality and significance to description of the hero, verve of action and plot. For the purpose of identifying and analysis of the comparative constructions in olonkho text we examined two olonkhos of talented olonkhosut from Taattinsky District Nikolai Tikhonovich Abramov «Elbet Bergen» and «Shamans Uolumar and Aygyr» which are examples of early types of Yakut olonkho. In the course of the research, we used the classification of turkologist Yu. I. Vasilyev and such methods as a continuous sampling method for collecting the materials from olonkho texts, descriptive method and semantic analysis for identifying the function of comparative constructions in the text and their role in the linguistic picture of the storyteller`s world. The results give us an opportunity to mention that in the olonkho texts were used all the basic methods of comparison expressions listed by Yu. I. Vasiliev. This fact may be one of the signs of enormous creativity and imagination the olonkhosut. Olonkhosut as a bearer of national culture, customs and traditions of his nation uses natural phenomena of native Yakutia in his figurative comparisons and the specific characteristics of his nation. N. T. Abramov as a native speaker of the oral tradition mainly uses comparisons developed as a stable formula in the Yakut epos. As specific features of a concrete olonkhosut`s comparisons can be considered not more than 6% of the total number of selected examples.
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