Representation of the subconcept Mother of God in modern Middle-upper-dnieper and Hutsul dialects

Vira Diachuk, Postgraduate student in the Department of Dialectology
Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4 Mykhailo Hrushevskyi St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine

E-mail: virarozumna@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3982-335X

Heading: Young Scholars Articles
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: It has been acknowledged that mental formations like concepts and subconcepts occupy an important place in national worldview system, because they represent the community value attitude to the cultural phenomenon. Verbalization of the lower-level cognitive structures testifies their place in linguistic worldview and represent culturally determined knowledge about them.

The purpose of this study is to find out the common semantic features in concep­tualization of Mother of God image and describe the peculiarities of its verbalization in speech of modern Middle-upper-Dnieper and Hutsul speakers. To achieve the objectives we used a comparative method which is suitable for identifying peculiarities of subcon­cept verbalization in the Middle-upper-Dnieper and Hutsul dialects.

The results of this study show that the subconcept MOTHER OF GOD is objecti­fied in seven common cognitive features in researched linguistic areas: “Mary is a wom­an born Jesus Christ”; “Mother of God is a holy mother”; “Our Lady is a protector”; “Mother of God helps people”; “Virgin Mary helps girls to get married”; “Mother of God is respected”; “Our Lady is an earthly woman”. Results also reveal that the seman­tic features of analyzed cognitive item are concentrated around maternal, intercessory and glorifier aspects. Moreover, our research specifies two types of subconcepts verbal­ization in the Middle-upper-Dnieper and Hutsul dialects. They are lexical and syntactic.

This study emphasizes more important place of the subconcept MOTHER OF GOD in the Hutsul conceptual worldview. It is proved by larger number of language representatives found in the Hutsul dialects and rapprochement of sacred understanding about earth and Mother of God.

Keywords: subconcept, Mother of God, linguistic worldview, the Middle-upper-Dnieper dia­lects, the Hutsul dialects.

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