Cultural and Cognitive Structure of the Omen: Epistemology, Axiology and Pragmatics

Authors

Oleh TYSHCHENKO University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnav, Slovak Republic https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7255-2742
Igor KOROLYOV Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0436-5923
Oleksandra PALCHEVSKA Lviv State University of Life Safety, Lviv, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2090-4870

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v18i2.476

Keywords:

cognitive structure of the omen, forecast, frame, conceptosphere, axiology, chrononym, calendar saying, semantic attraction

Abstract

The article presents the cognitive categorization principles in different ritual and non-ritual situations. The semantics, structure and pragmatics of omens as well as that of the related cultural concepts in the archetypal world model is based on ethnosemiotic and cognitive analysis aspects, folklore pragmatics elements and the cultural text verbal magic. The omens realize such significant for folk culture oppositions as good-evil, life-death, top-bottom, male-female, etc., as well as the connection with various traditional culture codes – action, ?bject, zoomorphic, artifactual, sociomorphic, verbal and so on. As a holistic cultural and cognitive macrosign, taken in the unity of functions, conceptospheres and semantic oppositions, the omen is organized according to the principle of situation-event cognitive cluster – action – reaction, forecast – belay, embodied in profiling a cultural prescription or taboo. As a cultural and folklore genre, the omens are based on the collective experience and are fixed in the collective memory as a correlation of two situations (events) that are in causal connection (predictive – predictable) fixed by folk tradition. The main attention is paid to the pragmatic and axiological properties of the omens, epistemological and ontological principles of their organization in the compared Slavic and non-Slavic linguistic (English) cultures.

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Author Biographies

Oleh TYSHCHENKO, University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnav, Slovak Republic

(PhD, Dr. of Science in Philology) is a Professor of the Department of Russian Studies, University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnav, Slovak Republic. His areas of interest include Slavic ethnolinguistics, comparative phraseology, linguoculturology, cognitive linguistics. O. Tyshchenko is the author of 2 monographs and 120 scientific articles. Recent publications: “The Conceptualization of Emotions and Axiological Concepts in Slavonic Proverbs and Idioms: From Conscience to Envy”, “The Ways of Children’s Games Nomination and Their Ethnolinguistic Reconstruction”; “Formulations of Wishes in the Traditional Russian Folklore and in the Internet Communication”.

Igor KOROLYOV, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

(PhD, Dr. of Science in Philology) is a Professor of the Department of Polish Studies, Institute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. His areas of interest include general linguistics, language philosophy, linguistic communication, cultural linguistics, psycholinguistics. I. Korolyov is the author of 2 monographs and 50 scientific articles. Recent publications: “Cognitive and Communicative Category of Cooperativity: Ontological and Gnoseological Status”, “Mentality and National Character as Semiotic Regulators of Communicative Behavior”, and “Discursive Practices as Sign Constructs of Communicative Consciousness”.

Oleksandra PALCHEVSKA, Lviv State University of Life Safety, Lviv, Ukraine

(PhD in Philology) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies, Lviv State University of Life Safety, Lviv, Ukraine. Her areas of interest include general linguistics, language philosophy, translation studies, linguistic communication, cultural linguistics, terminology. O. Palchevska is the author of 1 monograph and more than 60 scientific articles. Recent publications: “Ethnic Stereotypes in Vernacular English, Ukrainian, Polish and French of the XIX Century”, “Meteorological Vocabulary in the Vernacular World Picture (On the Material of English, Ukrainian and French)” and “The Precedent and Stereotypical Character of Ethnic Jokes (Based on Ukrainian, English, and Polish)”.

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TYSHCHENKO, O., KOROLYOV, I., & PALCHEVSKA, O. (2021). Cultural and Cognitive Structure of the Omen: Epistemology, Axiology and Pragmatics. WISDOM, 18(2), 137–151. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v18i2.476

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