• Formation of Udmurt rap

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 6 No 4

  Author:

  Victor L. Shibanov

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  Udmurt rap was an attempt to expand the horizons of the national literary and musical culture of the early 21st century, which was dominated by ethnofuturism at that time. The object of analysis is the Udmurt-language rap texts of P. Shibanov, B. Anfinogenov and A. Pikulev, who released their albums in the period 2008–2018. The purpose of the study is to identify the national characteristics of Udmurt rap texts. The leading research method is descriptive-analytical, using comparative techniques. The results of the analysis are as follows. P. Shibanov depicts the life of Udmurt students in a dormitory; adaptation to the modern city is presented in different aspects. B. Anfinogenov writes his texts in the style of an ethno-soundtrack, mixing Udmurt, Russian and English. His hero is self-sufficient in that he is an Udmurt and can represent his nation in the global world. A. Pikulev is paving the way from the rap subculture to the artistic and literary beginning; images of nature occupy an important place. Udmurt rap is not an expression of protest sentiments; it is aimed at improving the status of the native language.

  Keywords:

  Udmurt poetry, rap, ethno-soundtrack

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• Epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic epic of the Mari people "Yugorno. The Song of the Prophetic Path"

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 6 No 4

  Author:

  Galina E. Shkalina

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  The article is devoted to the study of cosmogonic narratives of the Mari people. The goal: to identify the epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic Mari epic "Yugorno. Song of the Prophetic Path" against the background of epic works known in the global context. The materials are both the poetic creation of A. Ya. Spiridonov "Yugorno. Song of the Prophetic Path" and the author's field materials on the multi-level system of concepts reflecting the natural, cultural, social and virtual realities of the past, present and future in the worldview of the Mari people. The work is based on the hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to the study of epic texts using problematic and historical-comparativistic methods. Conclusion: widely popular ideas of people about the world order are reflected in the folk heroic epic as an immanent contradiction between two opposite principles present in the very essence of being (top-bottom, right-left, white-black, etc.). In the Mari poetic creation "Yugorno" the epic features of the creation of the world were expressed not in the harsh antagonism of the hero and the antihero, but in the peaceful competition between the gods-creators of different parts of the Universe, understood by people as good and evil due to the objective duality of the world.

  Keywords:

  heroic epic, Yum and Yyn, epic features, Mari people, creation of the world, good-evil

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• Reflection of national mythology in Chuvash poetry

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 6 No 4

  Author:

  Vera V. Nikiforova

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  The interaction of myth and literature is an urgent literary problem. Mythological themes, plots, motifs, and images are used and reinterpreted in Chuvash literature throughout its history. The main purpose of this study is to study the peculiarities of the reflection of mythology in Chuvash poetry. The most striking poetic works of Chuvash authors, created within the chronological boundaries of the XX – early XXI century, in the structure of which mythological elements play an important role, served as materials for the study. The main ones are descriptive and systematic methods. For the first time, the article presents an overview analysis of Chuvash poetry of the XX – early XXI century from the point of view of the stated theme. Her study demonstrated that the myth is noticeably reflected in poetic works. They reveal the structural and meaningful elements of myth, as well as signs of mythological thinking and mythological worldview. The conducted research has shown that myth is one of the sources of artistic creativity. In the future, it is supposed to analyze the features of the functioning of myth in prose and drama. The results obtained can be used in the study of the problem of national identity in Chuvash literature.

  Keywords:

  mythology, myth and literature, Chuvash poetry, XX – early XXI centuries

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• The Continuous tence forms of the English language in the cognitive-semiotic aspect

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 6 No 4

  Authors:

  Elena E. Chikina, Elena D. Arabey

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  The article offers a cognitive-semiotic analysis of English Continuous tense forms. The purpose of this study is to analyze the internal form of Continuous tenses which are considered as grammatical phraseological units. By describing the cognitive phraseosemantic modelling of ‘conceptual complexes’ through grammar means the authors endeavour to define and formulate basic cognitive-semiotic features of English Continuous tense forms. As a result it is concluded that the general cognitive model of the Continuous tenses actualises the discursive identity between the Actant-Subject and the Actant-predicate noun expressed by the gerund of the meaningful verb. This model expresses the semantics of a confined action developing in a limited spatio-temporal frame without a rigid attachment to the temporal markers of the beginning and end of the action. Different Continuous tenses show different positions of the observing subject in relation to the time of action, as well as modifications of the basic cognitive model of Continuous. For Present Continuous and Past Continuous, the specificity of their discourse syntagmatics is that the position of the observing subject differs. Future Continuous is characterised by a modified model of Actant-Subject and Actant- predicate noun identity, which develops an additional cognitive parameter. In this case the paradigmatic dependence of the predicate noun on the subject of an statement is observed. The paper also considers the cognitive model of the construction to be going to + infinitive as a special case of the cognitive model of Continuous.

  Keywords:

  English language, tense, semiotics, continuous tense, grammatical phraseological unit, internal form, cognitive-semiotic model

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• Verbalization of the concept of "beauty" in the phraseological units and proverbs of the Erzya and Finnish languages

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 6 No 4

  Authors:

  Ekaterina D. Karpunina, Natalya M. Mosina

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  The growing interest in concepts in cognitive linguistics highlights the relevance of studying the concepts of beauty in different cultures. The purpose of the article is to study the semantic features of the expression of this concept in the Erzya and Finnish languages based on a comparative analysis of phraseological units and paroemias. The concept of beauty is universal, and its perception and evaluation vary depending on cultural and social factors, which makes its analysis important for understanding the worldview of two distant peoples. The material for the study was phraseological units and paroemias representing the concept of "beauty", obtained as a result of using the continuous sampling method from specialized dictionaries and collections. The study showed that the verbalization of beauty in the analyzed languages reflects a multifaceted attitude to this concept. Based on a common semantic feature, we have identified four groups of phraseological units and paroemias describing external and internal beauty, deceptive properties of beauty, as well as a critical attitude to appearance. The etymological analysis of the basic lexemes was also carried out during the study. The article demonstrates that the concepts of beauty in the Erzya and Finnish languages not only differ, but also illustrate the unique cultural values of the two peoples. The results of the work can be useful for teaching Finno-Ugric languages, as well as for ethnolinguistic research and intercultural communication.

  Keywords:

  concept, proverb, phraseological unit, Erzya language, Finnish language, beauty

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• From the experience of a nomadic camp for Even children

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 6 No 4

  Author:

  Yuri A. Sleptsov

  Work direction:

  Ethno-Cultural Problems of Education

  Abstract:

  The article, based on the method of theoretical analysis and generalization of pedagogical experience, identifies the features of the education system in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), considers the organization of a nomadic camp as a new form in the concept of small-scale and nomadic education in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the problem of preserving the Even language became acute. This became the starting point in organizing a nomadic camp as a new form of teaching the native language and culture among the Evens. Until 2000, there were no such organizational forms in the Russian Federation, this became an innovation in the field of education in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The first experience, supported by regional authorities, was successful and was continued in various forms: ecological, ethnoecological, labor, etc. camps. The experience of the first nomadic camp was analyzed, and a number of significant measures were taken, including in the field of scientific and methodological support of the educational process. We especially recommend the positive experience of the nomadic camp for use in the context of continuous additional education in the regions, as well as for solving the problems of preserving the native language and culture.

  Keywords:

  children, additional education, native language, Evens, nomadic camp

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