Title of the article:

THE CONCEPT OF DOG-ROSE IN THE RUSSIAN FOLK TRADITION (BASED UPON THE RUSSIAN FOLK RIDDLES) 

Author(s):

Natalya V. Shesterkina

Information about the author/authors

Natalya V. Shesterkina — DSc in Philology, Professor, Research Mordovia State University, Bol’chevistskaya St., 68, 430005 Saransk, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-4573
E-mail: nvshest@mail.ru

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2022

Volume

Vol. 66

Pages

pp. 188–199

Received

August 21, 2022

Approved after reviewing

October 10, 2021

Date of publication

December 28, 2022

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-66-188-199

Index UDK

398.6

Index BBK

82.3(2)

Abstract

The paper discusses the peculiarities of word usage in the folk riddles about the bushes of briar and the results of their linguocultural analysis. The collections of riddles by V. V. Mitrofanova (the main one), M. A. Rybnikova and D. Sadovnikov (additional) served as the source material. The study describes linguistic and mythological mechanisms in the riddles about briar and its ambivalence (negative and positive evaluation). The author pays great attention to the “costume code” of a tree with its costume metaphor and costume elements, highlighting the similarity of briar with a person. Deciphering of many attributes of the bush present difficulties for analysis, that is why the author often makes her own suppositions about different versions. The paper also includes the separate elements of fairytales and legends about briar. 

Keywords

Russian Folk Riddles, Dog-rose, Linguocultural Analysis, Mythology, Costume Code, Costume Metaphor, Ambivalence.

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