ALCOHOL IN MYTHIC SPACE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY LINGUO-CULTURAL ANALYSIS Cover Image

ALCOHOL IN MYTHIC SPACE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY LINGUO-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
ALCOHOL IN MYTHIC SPACE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY LINGUO-CULTURAL ANALYSIS

Author(s): Oleksandr Kolesnyk
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive linguistics, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: Alcohol; beer; semantics; myth; categorization; system; worldview; culture;

Summary/Abstract: This article addresses verbal means of denoting ALCOHOL in the context of the “mythic space”. Mythic space is regarded as the focal segment of a language worldview, the container of irrational axiomatic data quanta that function as basic categorization operators at different stages of civilization’s development. Primal “nano-myths” are reconstructed via etymological analysis of alcohol-containing beverages’ names in different European languages. The article discusses semantics and linguo-cognitive premises of the language signs denoting alcohol beverages in archaic Germanic worldview and in the presentday English-based pop-cultural worldview. The paper suggests a synthetic interdisciplinary interpretation of linguo-cultural implications of the said semantic and cognitive models.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 238-263
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: English
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