Svetlana A. Kosharnaya

Professor, Doctor of Science (Philology), Professor of the Department of Russian Language and Russian Literature of the Belgorod State National Research University

Belgorod State National Research University

(Belgorod, Russia)

Abstract. Traditional words-symbols appeared in the context of the archaic picture of the world, and therefore at the level of the semantic archetype they objectify the historically conditioned figurative basis, revealing the features of cultural connotation. Based on this, the word-symbol is not only a synthesis of the signifier and the signified: it carries a certain idea, motive, plot (often mythological). In this sense, the symbol appears as a result of myth-making. Since symbols in ethnoculture are quite constant, they serve to perform the cumulative function of culture and the unity of its various chronological layers in the national-cultural universe, which makes the symbol extremely popular in artistic creativity, in particular, in poetry, in the context of which the word-symbol becomes an ele-ment of a kind of intertext, correlated with the hypertext of culture. However, the symbolic meaning is of interest not only as a representative of archaic mythological views: the era of myth-making does not end with the transition to a higher level of development of society, and the new myth gen-erates its symbols on the basis of existing ones, which become its tools. In this regard, we can talk about the traditionality of the word-symbol, its relationship with key concepts, and language symbols is based on linguistic and cultural tradition. The word-symbol is based on the unity of diachrony and synchrony, and, ontologically residing in this duality, it can have a programming effect on the con-sciousness of the native speaker.
Keywords: word, symbol, myth, tradition, diachrony, synchrony, language consciousness, cultural connotation, ethnoculture.

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For citation:Kosharnaya, SA 2020, ‘Symbolism of word as a result and tool of myth-making’, Tula Scientific Bulletin. History. Linguistics, issue 3 (3), pp. 76–85, URL: http://tula-vestnik.ru/pdf/2020/vipusk_3_20_12_20.pdf (in Russ.)

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