English Fairy Tales Research Articles

The Depiction of Childhood in English Fairy Tales and Folklore

This article explores the depiction of childhood in English fairy tales and folklore, analyzing key aspects and symbolism associated with the image of the child. The study examines how cultural perceptions of childhood, upbringing, and the social role of the child are conveyed through fairy tale plots and characters. It identifies the main archetypes and motifs present in English folklore and their influence on the perception of childhood in the English-speaking world. The article also discusses the significance of these motifs in shaping national identity and instilling values in the younger generation.

The Role of the Proxemic Factor in the Implementation of the Cooperative Strategy of Communication in the English Fairy Tale Discourse

The functional and communicative potential of proxemic components is investigated in this article on the basis of the English fairy tale discourse. The interaction of proxemic components and verbal communicative components is taken into consideration. The regularities of the influence of proxemic means on the fairy tale speakers’ achievement of communicative goals within the cooperative communicative strategy are established, and the discursive personality’s tactical toolkit for its implementation is identified. The modulation of distance between fairy tale speakers and the change of a fairy tale speaker’s posture in relation to his/her communicative partner are the most communicatively significant and effective proxemic means used in the process of communication. Insufficient diversity in the repertoire of proxemic components in comparison with other nonverbal components is their characteristic feature. As a result, proxemic components are frequently used in combination with kinesic and prosodic communicative components, accompanying the verbal components in the utterances of fairy tale speakers. In this way the strengthening of the semantic load of a fairy tale speaker’s utterance takes place. The proxemic components are also used by a fairy tale discursive personality for more effective implementation of various communicative tactics within the frames of the cooperative communicative strategy in the English fairy tale discourse.

Unveiling Creativity Elements in YouTube Narrative Videos for Ninth-Grade Junior High School Students

Creative narrative videos posted on YouTube have been proven to help students learn the narrative text and enhance students’ creativity toward making an excellent creative product. Along with the advantages, there are challenges and risks that teachers must consider since YouTube is an open-access video-sharing platform. This study aims to see whether narrative videos posted on YouTube meet creativity elements that can help ninth-grade junior high school students learn narrative text. This study used a qualitative method with content analysis to analyze fifteen narrative videos from three YouTube channels; Dongeng Kita, English Fairy Tales, and Gigglebox. The selected fifteen videos have been uploaded within the last seven years and are addressed to teenage viewers. Using the framework from D'Souza (2021), the findings show that the selected narrative videos fulfilled around 30% to 80% of the creativity elements. The audience immersive experience aspect, with a percentage of 45%, is the most dominant aspect of the narrative video's creativity elements. In contrast, the development and control aspect is the least in the creativity elements of narrative video, with a percentage of 25,5%. The narrative videos demonstrate diversity, a distinction or feature that distinguishes a narrative video from the previous version (narrative text). This study is expected to be a recommendation for teachers in choosing narrative videos on YouTube to support their teaching materials and simultaneously enhance students' creative thinking skills.

Conceptualization in English fairy tales

Conceptualization in English fairy tales

Rabbit, Rabbit: Analysing the Hare/Rabbit Characters in Ukrainian and English Fairy Tales

Artistic images of animal characters in beast stories studied through the prism of national mentality reveal specific animal-human concepts rooted in the readers’ mindsets. This essay focuses on the hare/rabbit as a popular character in animal tales, with an attempt to enhance intercultural relations in the Ukrainian/English world by explaining the peculiarities of the surrounding reality present in beast stories. The paper discloses similar and distinctive characteristics of animal stories on two levels, that is, by contrasting the author’s literary tale with the folk-tale, and by studying the collective image of hare in Ukrainian folk-tales against the background of Peter Rabbit from Beatrix Potter’s stories. The research does not dwell on the zoological peculiarities of the chosen animals or the Aesop fables, but highlights the psychological characteristics of the animals under study in the context of their “national identities”. The work results in disclosing a deep connection between games and animal tales; since both the storyteller’s and the audience’s mental work is based on the game-like perception of the virtual world of the story. The literary images of the hare/rabbit in Ukrainian and British tales differ radically. Ukrainian animals are presented as meek and subdued creatures relying on outside help and rarely (ranking sixth amongst animal protagonists) becoming the leading characters. In contrast, British bunnies are energetic and boisterous, trying their best to overcome any difficulties. The authors explain this fact by references to differences in the historical development of the two cultures under analysis.

Non-canonical Word Order and Its Discourse Functions in English Fairy Tales

Non-canonical Word Order and Its Discourse Functions in English Fairy Tales

UNIVERSAL COMPONENTS OF SYMBOLIC IMAGERY IN NARRATIVE OF UKRAINIAN AND ENGLISH FAIRY TALES

Introduction. The paper focuses on the study of fairy-tale narrative with special interest to the universal components of the folk tale symbolic imagery. Semiotic (symbolic) facet in the Ukrainian and English fairy-tales’ narrative analysis contributes to further investigations inthe field of linguosemiotic, linguocultural, literary-semiotic and other cross-disciplinary studies.Purpose. The paper aims at revealing of common archetypes or prototypes of the symbolic images and motifs in Ukrainian and English fairy tales.To achieve this purpose we have applied the integrative methodology based on methods of contextual interpretation analysis, intertextual analysis, elements of the method of comparative analysis of Ukrainian and English fairy tales, as well as elements of the methods of archetypaland narrative analyses.The major results refer to the identifying the similar symbolic properties of the Ukrainian and English fairy tales. We have revealed and described the most widespread symbolic images: a symbol of forest as a boundary space between fantastic worlds and, at the same time, a netherworld, associated with the universal motif of initiation; a symbol of tree manifested bythe symbolic images of oak and apple tree acting both as the character’s assistant and mediator between the worlds; an ambivalent symbol of apple involving the archetypal motifs of eternal youth, earthly desires, temptations and transition to another world. Next recurrent motif is thepersonage’s transformation into an animal or a bird, metaphorically manifesting the archetypal idea of ancestors’ reincarnation in totems. The motif of marriage on animals is no less common in tales together with the motive of the totem assistant. Both the bird and the horse belongto universal mythologems, the former associating with a symbol of the soul and metonymically performing a function of the content of the soul, and the latter acting as an assistant and a mediator between the worlds. The archetypal symbols of fire and water are symbolically reinterpretedin fairy tales as the border between the worlds, manifestations of the idea of good and evil, symbols of purification as well as in paradigms of ambivalent images appearing as the metonymicmanifestations of the basic symbols.Conclusion. Constant images of fairy tales symbolize the unity of man with nature, with animals and birds, elements of being. The fairy-tale symbols appear as a system organization, the paradigm of images, with numerous metonymic and metaphorical derivatives from basic symbols, as well as the syntagmatic symbolic links between archetypal symbols and associatedsymbolic motifs.

Geleneksel masal anlatısında “hilebaz” kadın karakterler: “Helvacı Güzeli” ve “Molly Whuppie”

Ignácz Kúnos (1860-1945) Macar asıllı bir dilbilimci ve Türkologdur. Geleneksel Türk masallarını derleyen öncü isimlerden biri olduğu için Anadolu folklor geleneğinde önemli bir figür haline gelmiştir. 1885-1890 yılları arasında Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nu dolaştı ve Osmanlı toplumundan çok sayıda hikâye anlatıcısını dinledi. Anadolu folklorunu ve etnografyasını araştırma çabaları sayesinde Anadolu sözlü geleneğinin birkaç ciltlik masal külliyatını oluşturmuştur. Kúnos, Türk halk geleneğindeki uluslararası unsurları ve temaları, onları Avrupalı muadilleriyle ve Doğu'daki Binbir Gece Masalları gibi örneklerle karşılaştırarak bulmaya çalıştı. Türk masallarını Batılı oryantalist perspektif içerisinde incelemeye çalıştı. Kırk Dört Türk Masalı (1913) adlı masal koleksiyonu bu girişimi örneklemektedir. Bu hikâyelerde doğaüstü, tek tanrılı ya da çok tanrılı dini öğeler barındıran öyküler tematik olarak Avrupa masallarına benzeyen kahraman, kötü adam, yardımcı, büyücü ve cadı karakterlerini içerir. Bu makalede, Kúnos'un masal koleksiyonundan “Helvacı Güzeli” incelenerek İngiliz folklorundan seçilen bir diğer eser “Molly Whuppie” ile karşılaştırmalı olarak analiz edilecektir. “Helvacı Güzeli”, Anadolu kültüründen vezir ve hoca gibi geleneksel figürlerini de içeren Anadolu masal geleneğinin bir örneğidir. “Molly Whuppie” ise ilk olarak halk bilimci yazar Joseph Jacobs’un 1890 tarihli English Fairy Tales adlı eserinde derlenen ve bu tarihten itibaren de birçok masal koleksiyonuna eklenen önemli bir masaldır. Bu makaledeki ana argüman, kadın kahraman ve hikâye anlatıcısı “Helvacı Güzeli” ve “Molly Whuppie”nin, onları öldürmeye çalışan geleneksel erkek figürleri (hoca, vezir, dev vb.) alt ederken hikâyedeki hilebaz figür olduklarıdır. Böylece, helvacı kız ve Molly Whuppie kılık değiştirme gibi hileler kullanarak düşmanlarını alt ederek ve yaşadıkları haksızlıkları doğru bir şekilde anlatarak güç kazanmaktadırlar.

A person and the world in a Mordovian folk tale (in comparison with folktales of other ethnic cultures)

Introduction. The effectiveness of the research of folklore for the cognition of the cosmo-psycho-logos of the ethnos determines the relevance of this work. The research novelty of this study is studying Erzya and Moksha folk tales with the application of deixis analysis of folk tales with similar plots circulating in various ethnic groups. The object of the study is the texts of the Erzya and Moksha fairy tales with the plot motif “Tom Thumb” in comparison with Russian, German, English, Spanish and Latin American fairy tales with a similar plot. The subject of the research is the features of ontology, axiology, anthropology of Erzya and Moksha in a fairy tale. The purpose of the work is to identify the ontological, axiological and anthropological features of the Mordovian fairy tale. The objectives of the study are to perform a deixis analysis of the texts of several variants of the Mordovian fairy tale and its foreign-ethnic counterparts; identify their similarities and differences; to formulate the ontological, axiological and anthropological features of the Mordovian fairy tale. Materials and Methods. To achieve the purpose of the study, the author carried out a comparative content analysis of the deixis of seven fairy tales with the leading plot motif “Tom Thumb”. The author applies the method of critical selection of sources choosing the authentic versions of folk tales. General research methods allow the author to analyze and systematize the information obtained and synthesize the conclusions. Results and Discussion. All the considered folk tales record the tragedy of the absence of children in an ethnic family, the desirability of procreation as children are the happiness and the meaning of human life. The Erzya folk tale demonstrates the local-common solidarity, the fight against aggressive authorities, and armed restorative justice. In the Moksha fairy tale, there is a motif of deception by a deceiver as a form of restorative justice to improve the financial situation of the family. Both in the Erzya and Moksha fairy tales, the intention of returning home in an indirect way and living in labor in one’s place of development is realized. Conclusion. A comparative analysis of the deixis of fairy tales of different ethnic groups with a similar plot makes it possible to identify the general and special in the content of fairy tales, to determine the features of the ontology, axiology, and anthropology of the ethnic group. The study showed that the ontological, axiological and anthropological features of the Erzya and Moksha fairy tales are close, but not identical; it revealed similarities and differences with the fairy tales of other ethnic cultures.

How is the translation of English fairy tales born in the aspect of intercultural communication

The relevance of the research topic is due to the increased interest in fairy tales within various directions and approaches, which is associated with the loss of low-quality stigma in children's literature compared to works intended for adults. Within the framework of translation theory, the main attention is paid to the peculiarities of the transfer of linguistic and stylistic features of children's literature and other translation difficulties. The purpose of the study is to identify patterns of transmission of national and cultural identity in the translation of fairy tales. Fairy tales from the collections "Pack from the Magic Hills" and "Gifts of fairies" by R. Kipling are considered. A linguistic and cultural analysis is carried out, the used translation transformations are highlighted.The subject of the study is the general trends in the treatment of elements of foreign culture when translating English fairy tales into Russian. В The scientific novelty lies in the analysis of translation from the position of adaptation of culturally colored elements for children. It is revealed that cultural adaptation is often made, which is not required for adult works. The results of the study demonstrate that in the process of translating English fairy tales, a balance is being sought between introducing children to another culture and the need to adapt the material for ease of perception by the audience. When translating for children, translation transformations are actively used, bringing culturally colored elements closer to familiar ones or simplifying their understanding, which is not always required for an adult audience. The way of handling labeled elements depends on their plot and ideological significance, cultural value and level of fame, the context of use, the chosen translation strategy and other factors.

Linguistic and Cultural Analysis of Translation Techniques in the Process of Localization of an English Fairy Tale

Introduction. This article is devoted to the consideration of linguistic and cultural study of translation techniques in the process of localization of an English fairy tale for a Russianspeaking readership. The relevance of the research is determined by the need for a comprehensive study of the localization process of various ethno-cultural phenomena displayed during translation, as well as the stylistic transformations used in this process for the purpose of adapting the original text to the linguistics and culture of the target language.Methodology and sources. The typology of translation transformations by L.K. Latyshev was used as a reference classification, within which the author distinguished lexical, morphological, syntactic, mixed and stylistic transformations. The research was conducted in the context of a linguistic-stylistic approach to the analysis of the text using continuous sampling method, the methods of contextual, linguistic and cultural analysis, as well as the descriptive and comparative method, which implies identifying and understanding of stylistic transformations performed by the translator, and semantic and cognitive analysis, consisting in the study of verbal representations of the concept in the language, were used. The research material is presented by an English-language fairy tale and its translation into Russian (the book by K. Lewis “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and the translation made by G.A. Ostrovskaya).Results and discussion. Stylistic transformations implemented during the localization of a fairy tale significantly change the original text in accordance with the requests of the culture of the target language. The most common stylistic transformations during localization of an English fairy-tale texts are related to such stylistic devices as metaphors and idioms, due to discrepancies in the system of images between languages, as well as exotisms, that underlie the key concepts of a particular culture, and allusions, since, due to the distance between cultures, they may be unknown to the recipient of the translation.Conclusion. A fairy tale preserves the wisdom, traditions and morals of a particular society, and therefore is a way of reflecting national identity. Localization, as a process of adaptation of works of this genre, is directly related to stylistic transformations, since they play a key role in achieving an adequate translation.

Functional and communicative peculiarities of the prosodic component in the English fairy tale discourse

Functional and communicative peculiarities of the prosodic component in the English fairy tale discourse

Linguistic and cultural specifics of the translation of english fairy tales

The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the effect of fairy tales in linguistics and its cultural specifics in translation. Moreover, the article illustrates translational categories and difficulties of translating cultural words from English into native language.

Symbolism in the English and Russian fairy tale folklore: comparative analysis

The subject of this research is the symbolism in the English and Russian fairytale tradition. The object is the texts of the Russian and English fairy tales. Analysis of the texts reveals the typical functions performed by symbols in both folklore traditions. The author provides the examples of symbols and offers the interpretation of objects-symbols, symbols-zoonyms, color and number symbols, time and space symbols. Comparative study of folklore heritage of non-cognate languages reveals the fundamental commonness of a particular folk genre of different peoples in their perspective upon reality, methods of depiction, and ideological interpretations. The scientific novelty consists in conclusions obtained in the comparative study of the symbolism of fairy tale texts in the Russian and British folklore, which is important for determination of linguistic, semiological and cultural universals. The comparative study of folklore material of two traditions in the sphere of the poetics of folklore reveals the traditional universals and unique features on the level of symbolism of the fairy tale genre. Within the framework of the article, the author analyzes the functionality of thematic, animalistic, color, spatial-temporal, and numerical symbols. The acquired results are underpinned by a large number of text examples.

Transparency and mirroring of literary translations of fairy tales by the English writers

The subject of this research is the English-Russian translation of fairy tales from the perspective of transparency and mirroring. The goal of this research is to determine the strategy for literary translation of the English fairy tales. Linguostylistic and comparative analysis is conducted on B. Zakhoder's translations of such fairy tales as “Alice in Wonderland” by L. Carroll, “Winnie the Pooh and All, All, All” by A. Milne, and “Mary Poppins” by P. Travers. The modern theory of translation largely focuses on the various aspects of equivalence and adequacy of the original and translated texts; describes the requirements for the quality of translation, including literary translation. Russian and foreign researchers show heightened attention to the concepts of transparency and mirroring in translation, namely literary translation of children's literature substantiated by the specificity of the target audience. The scientific novelty consists in application of the modern postulates of the theory of translation to children's literature, which broadens knowledge in this scientific field. The main conclusion lies in following the theory of translation transparency for the child reader in translation of children's literature. As a result of the analysis of B. Zakhoder’s translations of fairy tales by L. Carroll, A. Milne, and P. Travers into the Russian language, it is noted that they reflect the general patterns of translation children's fiction, take into account psychological characteristics of the audience, text is adapted to be comprehensible for children, considerable attention is given to the emotional component, expressiveness, and humor. Although B. Zakhoder’s translations are not the full interpretation, he follows the theory of transparency. Imaginative interpretation of the text demonstrates the specificity of translator’s individual style.

Moral Analysis in the Videos of English Fairy Tales Channel and Its Relevance to Narrative Text Learning in Senior High School

This study analyzes the moral values of legends and fairy tales on the English Fairy Tales YouTube channel and examines its relevance to narrative text learning in schools. The approach used is qualitative research, with descriptive type. The sample videos taken from the English Fairy Tales channel are five videos. According to theory, analysis of moral values is carried out by looking at video samples and describing them. In contrast, relevance analysis will be carried out by reviewing the applicable learning syllabus. The research found that the videos analyzed contain values always to be grateful to God, care for others, be diligent, be brave, help each other, keep promises, and never give up. In addition, the moral values found in legends and fairy tales on the English Fairy Tales YouTube channel have relevance to the teaching of narrative texts in class X of Senior High School because the moral values contained in legends and fairy tales on the English Fairy Tales YouTube channel can support the use of English Fairy Tales channel videos as learning media that is in line with the learning competence.

ACONCEPTUALIZATION OF SPACE IN ENGLISH FAIRY TALE DISCOURSE (IN COMPARISON WITH RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE DISCOURSE)

The article examines the features of the conceptualization of space in the English and Russian fairy-tale discourses. Based on the material of English fairy tales: “The Jungle Boo”,"Alice's adventures under ground” and “Winnie-the-Pooh and All, All, All”, the structure of the lexical and semantic field “ Space ” in fairy-tale discourse is analyzed.

Артефакти безсмертя у світовій літературі: лінгво-когнітивна реалізація (на матеріалі англомовних творів жанрів казка, готичний роман та фентезі)

The present article reveals the research of the history of appearance and functioning of the artifacts of immortality in the world literature and presents the analysis of realization of their peculiarities at the linguistic and cognitive levels in the English literary works of such genres as fairy tale, gothic novel and fantasy. In the process of research the attention was focused on the analysis of the nominative aspect of verbalization of artifacts of immortality along with the structuring of the basic information got as a result of contexts analysis, where the artifacts of immortality were mentioned, and presented as a frame of the notional layer of the literary concept ARTIFACT OF IMMORTALITY. The article presupposes the application of the complex multiparadigmatic approach which is based on the properties of linguopoetic and conceptual analysis. Having analyzed the lingual verbalization aspects of variety of immortality artifacts in fairy tales and literary works of O. Wilde, J. R. R. Tolkien and J. K. Rowling, where the imaginary category these artifacts are associated with, is realized the best, and where it serves as the genre-forming feature, we found the set of lexemes denoting artifacts of immortality, the most frequently mentioned are the things with extraordinary properties which prolong the life or existence of their creators or owners. On the basis of system-functional and semantic analyses, it became possible to differentiate and group words that verbalize artifact of immortality in the analyzed literary works. The logically structured information about these artifacts reveals the basic mental visualization of the phenomenon, its components, the interaction of which is presented in the form of a frame, and demonstrates the knowledge about the immortality artifacts accumulated in the English fairy tales, gothic novel and fantasy: it is a living being or a thing that provides its owner or creator with immortality, originates from mythology or folklore or is the invention of the writer; it is made as a result of application of the magic, prayer or exceptional wish and through sacrifice, functions as the single copy or a set of components in a certain body or beyond it and can be destroyed by strength or the magic and under certain circumstances that leads to the death of its owner or creator. The present research shows the common features of the artifact of immortality as one of the bright examples of realization of the imaginary category and reveals its unchangeable nature in the English fairy tales, gothic novel and fantasy.

Image of magical items in english and uzbek fairy tales

The existence of magic items in fairy tales plays an important role in defining the nature of fairy tales. This article discusses magic items that are used in similar functions in both English and Uzbek fairy tales.

THE INVESTIGATION OF THE CONCEPTUAL SPACE OF THE ENGLISH FOLK FAIRY TALE BY MEANS OF THE CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS

This article is devoted to the systematic investigation of the conceptual space of the English folk fairy tales. This space was considered as a holistic prototypical entity made by theconceptual fields of the English folk fairy tale characters. The latter has been analyzed with regard to their general types and their typical encarnations in the English folk fairy tale. The conceptual field of a character was structured as a frame including attributive, functional, causative and resultative zones. It was established that each zone is represented by a number of definite concepts which can be regarded as more or less typical for the English folk fairy tales. Within the general conceptual model of the English folk fairy tale we identified the central schema and its transformations. Special attention was paid to the conceptual model space-andtime, to the role of sacred numbers in English folk fairy-tale semantics and to the description symbolic images which can be related to the archetypes of the unconscious investigated by K. Yung. The archetypes are considered to be the basis of the conceptual model of the English folk fairy tales.