РОЗУМІННЯ ДЕЯКИХ КОДІВ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ КУЛЬТУРИ ДВОМОВНИМИ ДІТЬМИ, ЯКІ РОЗМОВЛЯЮТЬ УКРАЇНСЬКОЮ ТА ПОЛЬСЬКОЮ МОВАМИ (НА ПРИКЛАДІ ІМЕН ПЕРСОНАЖІВ УКРАЇНСЬКИХ НАРОДНИХ КАЗОК)
UNDERSTANDING OF SOME CULTURAL CODES BY BILINGUAL CHILDREN SPEAKING POLISH AND UKRAINIAN (THE EXAMPLE OF THE PROPER NAMES OF THE CHARACTERS FROM UKRAINIAN FOLK TALES)

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problem of how bilingual children speaking Ukrainian andPolish and living in Poland understand and comprehend the Ukrainian cultural codes from folk tales.Research on the speech of bilingual Ukrainian children is a highly relevant direction in modernlinguistics. Cultural codes are a key part of each culture. The aim of the research is to indicate andanalyse how bilingual Ukrainian children living abroad understand cultural codes submerged in thenames of well-known characters from Ukrainian folk tales. The ability to define describe and understandthese characters shows the children’s knowledge of Ukrainian folktales and the connotationsof selected proper names. The analysis of the surveys reveals how the peculiarities of cultural codesare identified, understood and explained by native speakers under the influence of external lingualand cultural factors.

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