Kogan, E. S. SANCTITY AND SAINTS IN MIRRIR OF DIALECT DISCOURSE OF INTERFLUENCE BETWEEN VOLGA AND DVINA // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2018. No 6 (175). DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2018.219


Linguistics

SANCTITY AND SAINTS IN MIRRIR OF DIALECT DISCOURSE OF INTERFLUENCE BETWEEN VOLGA AND DVINA

Kogan
E. S. 		Ural Federal University
Keywords:
discourse; popular culture; world picture; religion; dialect; spiritual categories		 Summary: The article refers to notions of spiritual and religious categories, which function in the dialects existing in the region of the interfluve between Volga and Dvina (Arkhangelsk, Vologda and Kostroma regions). The author examines the ways informants describe in their speech the categories of sanctity, the saints and different stories related to them. The main method is the analysis of context combinative power, partner words, in some cases - figurative senses. The understanding of the abstract category of sanctity by popular mind, linguistic transformations of saints’ names indicating their depersonalization, as well as reductions and modification of legends, related to saints, are the points of interest. The main way of perception of saints and sanctity in the popular culture is revealed: the abstract idea is abandoned, concretized. Therefore, some “parameters” of sanctity (which seldom consist in revision of canonization conditions) and stories about the saints are formed. The connection between saints, sanctity and rituals in the popular mind also attracts attention. The present study is topical thanks to its modern speech material, which reveals a world image, actual for modern dialect speakers, and not an archaic one, which is fixed in the language. The topicality of the present study is also due to the introduction of new material: filed notes data of the Toponimic expedition of the Ural Federal University.



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