Dozhin rituals in the system of traditional culture of the Eastern Slavs: ethnolinguistic components in semiotic analysis aspect
https://doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2022-8-3-496-506
Abstract
We pay particular attention to the consideration of semantic components of the dozhin ritual (“beard curling” ritual) as an ethnolinguistic text, which are the ontological foundations of the agrarian complex of traditional culture system of the Eastern Slavs. We give a description of the “beard curling” ritual in the form of representation of actional blocks using the basic categories of semiotic analysis, an interpretation of the meaning of symbolic semiotic structures in the form of a layout of symbolic components. The field materials presented by us are both an indicator of the All-Russian context and the specific area itself – the Central Black Earth Region, in particular, Tambov region, and demonstrate the echoes and originality of functioning of constituent components of the dozhinochny ritual. The texts of this rite, incantatory elements, actional components turn out to be quite many-sided and diverse. The explanation of ritual’s ethnolinguistic components in the folk environment shows how the people interpret the contexts of its origin and development. The actual symbolic representation is shown in the sacred context of all symbolic semes, which emphasizes their ontological nature. The sacredness of the ritual is represented in the symbolism of significant semes: the “beard” in this case is an ethnolinguistic metaphor for the Christian appeal to God, a prayer for the future harvest.
About the Author
O. N. Andreeva
The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olga N. Andreeva, Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of State Administration and Humanities Department, Tambov Branch of Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Bldg 1 82 Vernadskogo Ave., Moscow 119571
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Andreeva O.N. Dozhin rituals in the system of traditional culture of the Eastern Slavs: ethnolinguistic components in semiotic analysis aspect. Neophilology. 2022;8(3):496-506. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2022-8-3-496-506
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