Metaphors and linguistic image in the analysis of phraseological units of the archaic Olonkho narrative

• Maximilian A. Zakharov Institute of Languages and Culture of Peoples of the RF North-East M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University Russia. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2478-2054
• Svetlana M. Prokopieva North-Eastern Federal University
• Agafja E. Zakharova Olonkho Center https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8987-0568

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46925//rdluz.34.31

Keywords: epic poetry, linguistic picture of the world, archaic genre, phraseological unit, hyperbolization

Abstract

The article analyzes metaphors in the linguistic image of the world using the description of the sky (айыы) and underground (абаасы), mythical creatures represented in phraseological units with numbers in T.V. Zakharov-Chääbij's Epic (2018) "Bulkun Wing the Hero". Compositional analysis, context analysis and the method of phraseological identification were used. The general method of investigation is induction-deduction, with theoretical conclusions drawn from the analysis of the material. The study of the linguistic image of the world in the Yakut epic Olonkho provides insight into the hidden creative process of an Olonkho narrator that recreates the structured and almost canonized oral tradition embedded in his repertoire. Phraseological units (PU) with a numerical component reflect a specific worldview through two opposing forces. PU animates the epic image of the world, representing a unique and rich language, and preserving the distant world of ancestors for us and future generations

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