FOLKLORE TRADITION AS A MEANS OF COMPARING LINGUISTIC WORLDVIEW

Abstract

The article examines the connection between folklore tradition and linguistic tradition, which is observed in folklore texts of all genres and different degrees of written mastering. The relevance of the article relates to combining the perspective of folklore and linguistic tradition when comparing fragments of linguistic worldviews. The author’s arguments is based on the fact that all known folklore texts published by folklore collectors reflect the choice of representative versions in accordance with the native speaker’s idea of the linguistic means exemplary use in a certain folklore genre. Thus the folklore tradition is reflected in the written form not only spontaneously, but as a value understood by the publisher, presented both in direct linguistic reflection and in its reinterpretation. The author compares Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Slovak versions of famous tales about animals and proves that the linguistic worldview as reflected in the language of a certain way of perception and structure of the world can be traced in its systemic and at the same time fragmentary component of the folklore text. In this case, the specificity of the folklore tradition in
the linguistic worldview allows us to identify common and distinctive folklore, linguistic, figurative, genre, text-forming standards. The author comes to the conclusion about synthetism and conceptual axiological aspect of comparison, which receives an intercultural interpretation.