Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol 12, No 1 (2019)

Oral Narratives as Representations of the Northern Pre-Angara Siberians’ Regional Linguoculture

Olga V Felde

Abstract


The article deals with the oral Siberian narrative as the most important phenomenon of the regional linguoculture, a holistic and heterogeneous linguo-cognitive phenomenon, the nature of which is predetermined by cultural codes and subcodes (anthropomorphic, biomorphic, theological, mythological), spatial coordinates, dominant values ​​and social experience of the local community. It also identifies and reveals the linguistic means representing the emotional, sensual, ethical, and aesthetic knowledge of the Angara Siberians, as well as the methods and means of explicating the mythological conceptualization of the world.

The study was conducted on the basis of narratives, mostly first-person narratives, audio- and video-recorded by the author during the folklore-dialectological expeditions to the settlements in the Northern Pre-Angara region. It was concluded that the oral Angara narrative reflects the cultural ideas and knowledge of the Russian Siberians about man, society, nature, and the infernal world. The images and stereotypes presented in the oral Angara narrative are passed to younger generations through everyday communication practices; therefore, they ensure the stability of worldview attitudes and contribute to preserving unique features of the regional Siberian culture.