Знак и значение. Семантика предсказаний в знамениях, повериях и приметах
The sign and meaning. The prophecy semantics in harbingers, beliefs and folk predictions

Author(s): Piotr Czerwiński
Subject(s): Anthropology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Customs / Folklore, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Special Branches of Philosophy, Semantics, Cognitive linguistics, Russian Literature, Eastern Slavic Languages, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: semantics; beliefs; prophecies; folk signs and predictions; mentality; consciousness; understanding of the world
Summary/Abstract: The book deals with the analysis and characteristics of the interpreting part of a sign/image shown in the prediction. The analysed material comes from the old-Ruthenian literature (The Tale of Igor's Campaign, Russian Primary Chronicle) as well as from some Russian folk predictions and prophecies. The selected aspect assumes appointing of a conceptual system which is located behind the intuitive interpreted knowledge of the world of conceptual construction. The fragments and parts of this system should be constituted by units both apprehended and unapprehended by the representatives of a given mental tradition.

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