„Sending out” the disease: imperative constructions of Ukrainian, English and French medical incantations.
Journal Title: Львівський філологічний часопис - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue
Abstract
The article examines the texts of Ukrainian, English and French medical incantations. The dominant structure basic components of the imperative constructions in incantations which are available in all three languages are found out. Each of these components is divided into semantic types that are relatively stable in a certain language. In the context of cross-language semantic comparison some models can completely or partly replicate the models of other languages, in separate cases they can be omitted. Such components can be optional, have certain ethnospecific traits dominated by the symbolic sphere peculiar to the certain folklore tradition representatives. Accumulating the studies in the area of structural and semantic analysis of Slavic incantations for comparative cross-language analysis of incantations texts, we tried to develop the original classification of the last. Analysing the Ukrainian, English and French texts major dominant components of the incantations’ imperative constructions were discovered. The material of the study are the Ukrainian, English and French medical incantations’ texts are taken from the folklore and ethnographic sources published in the nineteenth century. Some imperative constructions are found in all three studied languages. Such formulae can be clustered into several semantic types. One can come across the appeal to the magic helper. The helper can obtain the form of the magic healing plant. The most impotent semantic function in this case is given to the plant, the animal or spiritual creature. Perspectives of the research are seen in the further study of the other incantations’ constructions.
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О. В. Лабенко
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