Features of the Explication of the Concept “Oak” in the Linguistic Mythological Picture of the World
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5008-2024-3-50-61
Abstract
Aim. Consider the linguocultural concept “oak” and explore the content of this concept in Slavic myths, setting the task of producing a multi-aspect synchronic-diachronic analysis of the main explicators – oak and tree.
Methodology. The study used: 1) a descriptive method, which consists in presenting the modern meanings of the words oak and tree, as well as the history of these words and their etymology; 2) a comparative method associated with establishing the historical synonymy of the words oak and tree; 3) methods of structural and semantic analysis of phraseological units associated with the lexeme oak.
Results. The study showed that the lexeme oak and the stable combination eternal/world tree for the mythological picture of the world studied in the article, i.e. the pre-Christian period and the beginning of the Christian period; oak and the eternal/world tree, as well as phraseological units associated with the word oak, reflect the pagan, mythological and Christian ideas of Russian people.
Research implications lies in a three-level study of the concept “oak” and the connection of the lexeme representing it with the phrase “eternal/world tree”: in the speech material, the replacement of the lexeme oak with the eternal tree and vice versa was observed. Based on the consideration of the modern meanings of the words oak and tree, the study of their etymology and history, the basis has been established for the perception in the mythological consciousness of Russian people (of the pre-literate era, probably during the spread of paganism, in the pre-Christian period) of the oak tree as an eternal / world tree located in the center of the universe.
About the Author
V. A. Kulakova
Federal State University of Education
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Victoria A. Kulakova– Postgraduate Student of the Department of the History of the Russian Language and General Linguistics, Faculty of Russian Philology; teacher of the Russian language and literature, Secondary School no. 1 of Reutov
ul. Very Voloshinoi 24, Mytishchi 141014, Moscow Region
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