A HEAVY WORD VS. A LIGHT WORD, OR THE CONCEPT OF A WORD IN UDMURT

A HEAVY WORD VS. A LIGHT WORD, OR THE CONCEPT OF A WORD IN UDMURT

Author:  Dushenkova, T.R.

Affiliation:  Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature UB RAS

Abstract:  The article deals with the idea of a word in the Udmurt language. A word is not only a complex verbal sign, but it is connected with an action, it has a creative and destructive force and material nature. The paper examines various aspects of a word – from terminology to linguistic and cultural representations. 
The comprehensive study of the concept of a word in the Udmurt language has been carried out for the first time. The concept of a word reflects some of the mythological beliefs of Udmurts, according to which words may be light and heavy, flying and crawling, hard and soft, empty, good, warm, etc.
 A fideistic representation of words is observed in magic healing rituals and ceremonies, where the word performs its function in parallel to the action and has a creating power. 
A word is a unit of folklore genres: prayers, proverbs, incantations, curses, etc. Our lives are based on words, and mental life depends on them. In its cognitive aspect, a word can be represented in different cultural codes. The use of a root kyl- ‘word, language’ in many terms of folklore, literary criticism, linguistics, philosophy, law, politics proves its exceptional importance.

Keywords:  verbal sign, beliefs, mythological mentality, term, codes of culture

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