• Fish Skin Products as a Factor in Preserving the Ethnic Identity of the Hezhe People

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 1

  Author:

  Yulei Ma

  Work direction:

  Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology

  Abstract:

  This article examines fish skin products in the context of traditional Hezhe culture, as well as the challenges of their modern production. The Hezhe are a people related to the Russian Nanai people, who inhabit the banks of the Amur River and its tributaries, the Ussuri and Sungari. Fishing and hunting are common elements of the traditional culture of both peoples. Currently, the unique fish skin processing technology used by the Hezhe is being actively reconstructed. Based on direct observation of the fish skin processing process, the author consistently reveals the processing and manufacturing technology for clothing from it. The material is accompanied by the author’s photographs. As a result of this research, the author concludes that, in the context of globalization and increased intercultural contacts, fish skin items are no longer serving utilitarian purposes and are becoming key symbols of national self-identity. Fish skin as a clothing material is currently popular among designers. In their hands, tanned fish skin can be combined with other materials, which proves the adaptability of the material, as well as its potential for use in the creative industry.

  Keywords:

  ethnic culture, Hezhe, Nanai, fish skin tanning technology, tangible cultural heritage

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• Symbols and Symbolic Structures in Novels About Wartime Children: “The Golden Cloud Stayed Over” by A. Pristavkin and “The Book Thief” by M. Zusak

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 1

  Authors:

  Olesia A. Lazutkina, Daria A. Mashukova

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  The article provides a comparative analysis of symbols and symbolic structures in the novels “The Book Thief” by the Australian writer M. Zusak and “The Golden Cloud” by the Soviet author A. Pristavkin. Despite the differences in cultural and historical context — the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and the deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union — both works share a typological similarity in their use of symbolic strategies to represent the children’s experiences of war. The theoretical basis of the study is the works on philosophy and the theory of symbol, narratology, the theory of trauma, and the concept of multidirectional memory by M. Rothberg. The methodology includes comparative, structural-semantic, motivational, narratological, contextual, and intertextual analysis. The study reveals the universal mechanisms of symbolization of traumatic experience: the symbolism of the word and the book as means of resistance to a totalitarian regime, salvation, and preservation of cultural memory; symbolic motifs of duality and twinning; symbolic-narrative function of the Death image, color symbolism. It is shown that, despite the commonality of key themes (childhood and war, orphanhood, repressions), the texts demonstrate different models of access to the word: active mastery of culture in M. Zusak and exclusion from the world of culture in the characters of A. Pristavkin. The use of a comprehensive methodology allows us to demonstrate how both authors use symbolic structures to articulate the experience of historical catastrophe.

  Keywords:

  symbol, comparative analysis, children of war, A. Pristavkin, M. Zusak, symbolic structures, system of pairs and twins

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• Linguistic Means of Expressing the Russian Cultural Code in the Texts of the March “Farewell of Slavianka”

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 1

  Author:

  Nikolai A. Puzov

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  The article concerns linguistic means of expressing the Russian cultural code in the texts of the march “Farewell of Slavianka”. The article is devoted to the study of the functioning of lexical and grammatical means of expressing the Russian cultural code in the five most famous versions of the text of V. I. Agapkin’s march “Farewell of Slavianka” based on the scientific works of Russian and foreign linguists. The linguistic material is systematized and described using contextual and comparative analysis, as well as quantitative calculations. It has been revealed that each of the five versions of the march's lyrics, given their different historical and ideological contexts, embodies in its own way the specific features of the Russian cultural code, which are embodied and expressed through lexical features (the lexical repetition of keywords from certain thematic groups, lexical synonyms, and antonymous pairs) and grammatical features (the frequent use of imperative verbs, personal, possessive, and definitive pronouns, and the active use of appeals and emotionally charged imperative sentences). These features are used in close connection and interaction with one another, serving as important means of expressing the Russian cultural code. The harmony of the words and music of the march “Farewell of Slavianka” creates a sense of a special emotional mood, spiritual uplift, pride in the country and its people, and a sense of belonging to the events described. These qualities make the “Farewell of Slavianka” march one of the most important and vibrant bearers and exponents of the Russian cultural code.

  Keywords:

  mentality, cultural code, text, traditional values, lexical means, grammatical means, march

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• The Peculiarities of the Use of Verbs of Motion by Russian-Speaking Children

  Research Article

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 1

  Authors:

  Irina N. Anisimova, Alena Y. Nikitina, Elena A. Ignateva

  Work direction:

  World languages and literature

  Abstract:

  The present study is devoted to the analysis of the functioning of Russian verbs of motion in child speech. The aim of the article is to describe the main features of the use of these lexemes, which are particularly significant in early childhood, and to analyze instances of deviation from the normative usage of this group of Russian verbs. Investigating the lexical means by which a child conceptualizes motion contributes to a deeper understanding of the semantics of grammatical categories in the Russian language and to elucidating the process of language acquisition in children. The empirical material of the study consists of spontaneous speech data from the author’s two children and their peers, as well as verbal lexicon drawn from child speech dictionaries and scholarly articles on child language by various authors. Written child speech was analyzed on the basis of retellings and essays produced by school-aged children. The article examines how children use verbs of motion and documents atypical, non-standard phenomena associated with their usage. New linguistic data not previously described in the literature are presented. The research methodology includes longitudinal observation, the method of continuous sampling, and comparative analysis of linguistic facts. The article proposes a classification of the most common types of children’s occasional uses of verbs of motion, including the elimination of consonant alternations in stems, incorrect selection between unidirectional and multidirectional verbs, the use of colloquial and substandard forms, creative interpretation and reinterpretation of figurative meanings in polysemous verbs of motion, grammatical errors in verb government, and written errors in the selection of aspectual pairs. The causes of erroneous usage of the analyzed verbal lexicon are identified, and parallels are drawn with phenomena observed in adult colloquial speech within the framework of linguistic creativity. Playful strategies in the use of verbs of motion by Russian-speaking children are identified and interpreted.

  Keywords:

  Russian language, verbs of motion, verbal creativity, early childhood, speech ontogenesis

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• Review of: Dolgova A. P. Syntax of the Chuvash Language: Phrases. Simple Sentence : Monograph. Cheboksary : Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, 2024. 236 p. (The Structure of the Chuvash Language)

  Critical Review

  

  Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 1

  Author:

  Tatyana V. Denisova

  Work direction:

  Reviews and Critiques

  Abstract:

  Review

  Keywords:

  review

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