Structural-Semiotic Patterns of Weather Omens and Their Semantic-Functional Classes

Abstract

The technique of reconstructing the thematic pairs of weather omens does not reveal the patterns for their formation. This strategy of analysis does not provide an answer to the question of how a particular event situation is related to a specific weather forecast. The deep semiotic structures of the upcoming weather omens will not fundamentally differ from the semiotic structures of other omens, because their patterns are formed from the actualized semantic features of binary oppositions, in which the event and predictive parts of omens will be implemented. The article analyzes the signs, in the event part of which the meteorological and other natural phenomena are described, the "behavior" of the material objects, the behavior of animals, birds and other faunal forms, body sensations, their structural and semiotic patterns are determined and their belonging to semantic-functional classes are identified.