Ethnohermeneutics Russian fairy tales

Attitude to Motherland plays an important role in Russian linguistic culture. The sphere is formed by a number of concepts, such as Fatherland, home, family, children, warrior, etc. The concept voin (warrior) has not been studied in modern linguistics, which adds relevance to the present research. Military concepts bear a large cultural load and make up an important component of the society. In Russian linguistic culture, a warrior is a defender, the one who protects the peace of the family, relatives, friends, and Motherland as a whole. Military concepts are just beginning to attract the attention of modern researchers. The present paper features the symbolic signs of the concept voin (warrior). The analysis is based on the constructions with the lexeme voin (warrior) from the Russian National Corps. One of the most common symbols of a warrior is weapon. The article focuses on the symbolic equipment signs of the concept, i.e. helmet, shield, and sword. The research employed conceptual, descriptive, and static analysis methods. The following symbolic stereotypical signs were especially frequent: helmet (24 %), armament (23.7 %), shield (22.8 %), and sword (10 %). The average degree of frequency was observed in such cognitive signs as chainmail (5.2 %), armor (4.7 %), spear (2.3 %), armor (2.1 %), and bow (1.6 %). Other signs demonstrated a low degree of frequency.

Helmet, Shield, and Sword as Symbolic Signs of the Warrior Concept

Бодриков¹

2019

Military Concepts in the Russian Linguistic World Image (as in the case of " Warrior" Concept)

Pimenova

Бодриков

2019

The article features the cognitive signs of the warrior concept. The main representation of the concept is stylistically marked. The word warrior is often used in elevated style. In Russian culture, the army has always been a special estate that protects the people and the Russian lands. The concept warrior proved to have some structural peculiarities. It includes seven motivating signs in the structure of the concept: (battle) cry, army, conquest, hunting, desire / aspiration, target, dedication. Only four of them transformed with time and moved into the category of conceptual signs: army → warrior / defender / one who is fighting; desire / aspiration + goal + dedication → purposeful (person). The second group of the structure is formed by twenty conceptual signs: military, liberator, fighter, (military) employee, soldier, (experienced) in military affairs, warrior / defender / the one who fights, hero, protector, brave man, winner, squire, courageous / valiant (man), role model / example for imitation, responsible (man), purposeful (person), giving a debt to the country, ready for self-sacrifice / accomplishing a feat, participant in the war, patriot / devotee / loyal (Motherland / Fatherland / people). These cognitive characteristics show a wide range of functional manifestations of modern representations of military occupation. The special group includes figurative stereotypical and gender signs, since a warrior has always been a male hero in Russian linguistic culture. The stereotypes of Russian linguistic culture are connected with the military past of our people, with its heroic epos, tales, and legends. Symbolic signs make up a separate group. The structure of the studied concept includes sixteen symbolic signs, which are also connected with the history of the Russian people with its numerous wars and victories: gods and saints, (fraternal) graves of warriors, war veterans, eternal flame, (military) rituals, (military) units, banner, George the Victorious, coat of arms, hero cities, icons, awards (orders and medals, weapons), monuments (obelisks and columns), songs and marches, field, status Hero-city, temple.

Gender and Theomorphic Signs of the "Earth-Mother" Mythologeme in Russian Linguistic Culture

Moshina

2020

The research featured the "Earth-Mother" mythologeme within the "Earth" macroconcept structure. Earth-Mother is a well-known mythologeme widely distributed in different cultures. The present study was based on the National Corpus of the Russian Language and employed descriptive and conceptual analyses. The mythologeme proved to be embodied in the language as a whole set of metaphors that implement codes of Russian linguistic culture. They include vital, somatic, anthropomorphic, and theomorphic metaphors. The linguistic concept of Earth appeared to have the following cognitive signs: mother; caring parent; bestowal / benefactor; wet-nurse; parent; wife; mistress; lady; goddess. The theomorphism of the Earth concept was proved by its status as "the wife of God" expressed by the language formula "Mother-Wet-Earth". This name reflects the beliefs of the ancient Mokosh cult. The gender and theomorphic characteristics of the Earth-Mother overlap. As a result, the demiurgic act of creation is described by the metaphor of birth. After the adoption of Christianity, the name of the Virgin Mary began to be used instead of the name of the Mother-Wet-Earth. Moreover, the function of birth as an act of creativity was found to be preserved in the language consciousness of the Russian people. The research identified several clusters of images of the Earth-mother in the modern Russian language culture that can be classified as folklore, mythological, religious, and linguacultural.