ЗАМЕТКИ О ЛЕКСИКЕ НАРОДНОЙ МИФОЛОГИИ В “СЛОВАРЕ БОСНИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКАˮ
NOTES ON THE MYTHOLOGICAL VOCABULARY IN THE “DICTIONARY OF THE BOSNIAN LANGUAGE”

Author(s): Anna Plotinkova
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Lexis, South Slavic Languages, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: lexicography; linguistic geography; ethnolinguistics; folklore; mythological characters;
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the mythological vocabulary associated with folk beliefs and folklore of the peoples in South Slavic countries (the designation of mental denotations – mermaid, vampire, wolfman, dragon, witch, etc.) in the central part of South Slavia. The distribution of such vocabulary on ethnolinguistic maps is studied in comparison with its presentation in the “Dictionary of the Bosnian Language” (2010). Conclusions are drawn that the “Dictionary of the Bosnian Language” reflects the processes of gradual loss of the folk mythological vocabulary of a number of originally inherent meanings. Folklore vocabulary begins to be used in slang and vernacular speech. New meanings arise that are associated with the zoological sphere, which occurs on the basis of previously known contexts from the field of “lower” mythology and folk views on nature. The “Dictionary of the Bosnian Language” as a full-scale lexicographic work in the presented word usage, word combinations and phraseological turns reflects a number of characteristics of the mythological characters themselves, known from ethnographic literature and field ethnolinguistic records that had been done by the author.

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