The female image of Dangyna in the linguistic picture of the Tuvan world

Abstract

The article is devoted to the linguocognitive analysis of the image of Dangyna in the linguistic picture of the Tuvan world. The aim of the article is to analyse the image of Dangyna in the linguistic worldview of the Tuvan people, which has undergone transformations from ancient folkloric representations to fiction and modern reality. Dangyna is the daughter of the Khan, the bride of the main hero in epic works. In the popular perception of the Tuvinians, Dangyna appears as the ideal young woman, a companion of the hero, combining beauty, kindness and, despite her young age, intelligence, inner strength and flexibility of character. Thus, the image of Dangyna reflects not only a fragment of the aesthetic vision of the Tuvan world, but also the social role of a woman, an assistant, an adviser to the hero, whose extraordinary wisdom allows her to inspire a man to military exploits, while remaining in the background of epic events. The image of the Dangyna in the traditional ethical and moral representations of the Tuvinians has feminine virtues, which are most widely revealed in epic and fairy-tale folklore, transformed into myths. In modern works of fiction, the image of Dangyna manifests itself in two ways: as a national standard of comparison for literary heroines; as a special character in fiction. The results of an associative experiment and observation of contemporary events related to the spiritual and cultural values of Tuvan society show that modern ideas among speakers of the Tuvan linguistic culture mainly preserve ancient ideas about femininity in the image of Dangyna. The result of the analysis showed that the evaluative component of the image helps to reveal the peculiarity of this image. Dangyna's appearance and inner qualities complement each other, creating an ideal image of femininity in the popular imagination. The study is based on a linguocognitive analysis of Tuvan epics, fairy tales, non-fabulous prose, Tuvan fiction, the results of an associative experiment, and observations of modern social phenomena.