The article discusses the characteristics of the literary language used in Old Believer Russian folk pictures found during field investigations in the lower Yenisey river in the Republic of Tuva. Modern folk pictures are considered as a complete artistic whole in which all the visual tools convey the characteristics of the ideology of the Old Believer traditional culture and reflection of the modern world. Modern Russian folk pictures draw image and text from icons, manuscripts and printed books, wherein the contradictory tendencies of modern art are traced postmodernism with the elements of interpretation of ancient art.
Research into the specificity of the personal and artistic formation of the contemporary composer Victor Stepurko based on material from the early stage of his work is relevant. It is important to research not only specific issues from the personal side of his artistic growth, but also those that present themselves to Ukrainian society as a whole: the revival of traditions and the awareness of originality at a national level. In the wider context of European art, these features mark the stylistic specifics of Stepurko’s choral music.
The present article presents analysis of the dances Heiduka and Szala rutele of the inhabitants of the Lithuania Minor described by Matas Pretorijus in the 17th century. The article discusses the parallels between the dances hereinabove with the later variants of these dances described in the territory of the Lithuania Minor – in Klaipėda region and a certain part of Königsberg area (current Kaliningrad Oblast) – and in Samogitia in the 17–20th centuries. The interrelationship and change of the purpose, forms and figures of dances are analyzed.
The paper analyses Latvian and German somatic idioms in the dictionaries by K. Ulmann and K. Ulmann / G. Braže. Up to now the researchers of Latvian phraseology have not focused to analyse these theme – especially in diachronic aspect. The paper presents the most fixed somatic idioms in the Latvian and German and their equivalence types. The author compares with the meanings of idioms from the first dictionary (1638) to modern electronic dictionary “Modern Latvian dictionary”.
Business discourse is unidentifiable apart from its own specific metatext that is to be treated as a text which incorporates a paradigm of previously produced texts for similar (or identical) pragmatic purposes under similar (or identical) social conditions in order to perform intended mutually intelligible communicative functions. The purpose is to establish a relation between the communicative types of business texts and dominant linguistic strategies that are applied in order to realise the communicative functions of informing, persuasion, and reporting in institutional business communication.
The article deals with Sergei Bortkiewicz form, structure and functional experiments on sonata cycle in Sonata for Violin and Piano op. 26. The date of creation of the work is clarified. The article provides an overview of the history of development of the sonata cycle genre invariant. Comprehensive analysis of the work by Bortkiewicz provides tracing influences of West-European and Russian composing traditions. Different approaches to the interpretation of the composer's idea are presented, which allows to explain the specific construction of the cycle.
The article deals the beliefs about the whirlwind in Ukrainian demonology. On the basis of the empiric materials the аuthor considered the features of human behavior at a meeting with whirlwind and consequent after contact’s with him; retraces whirlwind’s connection with other mythological characters – a devil, a sorcerer, a witch, self-murderer spirits and others.
This article examines a specific kind of sacrifice to the pagan Lithuanian and Prussian gods recorded in the written sources of the 16th and 17th centuries, sacrifices made in and by water. There is a total of just ten such records known. Both Lithuanian and Prussian tribes practiced this kind of sacrifice. It is noteworthy that sacrifices involving water were not made to a single deity, but rather to several different gods; that the kind of sacrifice varied and that the most diverse sorts of intentions were pursued in making the sacrifice.
The article investigates common and ethnic-language features in formal and semantic-functional representation of category of diminutiveness in Ukrainian, English and Latin, that shows the peculiarities of evaluative-emotional world conceptualization in world models of these languages. The formal features of diminutivity representation in Ukrainian, English and Latin on that levels of language structure, where denoted category can be represented, are viewed, common and particular for each language semantic-functional varieties of diminutive meaning representation are highlighted.
The article investigates the specifics of the musical and poetic consistent patterns of the ancient Ukrainian monody. An important role in the incarnation of the sacred meaning of the chants is played by a verbal-poetic text. Hence the need for a structural analysis, that combines the methodological achievements of literature and musicology. Integrated approach to the study of monody gives us the possibility to realize the value of the liturgical text and trace the logic of its musical development.