Structural Features of the Symbolic Macroconcept of Mother: from the First Sign to the Symbol

The research objective was to describe the Russian macroconcept of mother. The author analyzed its motivating and symbolic signs. The study was based on the National Corpus of the Russian language (www.ruscorpora.ru) and featured 15 etymological dictionaries. Nine out of 34 motivating signs could be...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:f8259a8a92124e47a9ae912074f3cfb02021-11-17T02:43:10ZStructural Features of the Symbolic Macroconcept of Mother: from the First Sign to the Symbol2078-89752078-898310.21603/2078-8975-2021-23-3-782-789https://doaj.org/article/f8259a8a92124e47a9ae912074f3cfb02021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/5057https://doaj.org/toc/2078-8975https://doaj.org/toc/2078-8983The research objective was to describe the Russian macroconcept of mother. The author analyzed its motivating and symbolic signs. The study was based on the National Corpus of the Russian language (www.ruscorpora.ru) and featured 15 etymological dictionaries. Nine out of 34 motivating signs could be identified as symbolic: creator, educator, Mother of God, head, earth, queen bee, start, reason, source. Most of the motivating signs indicated the antiquity of the macroconcept. Symbolic signs appeared to make up a quarter of the total volume of motivating signs. They can be combined into three groups: 1) (Divine) motherhood (four signs: creator, educator, Mother of God, earth); 2) foundation (three signs: start, reason, source); 3) superiority / leadership (two signs: head, queen bee). These three groups reflect the peculiarities of the Russian linguistic mentality, which preserved the memory of the cult of the Great Mother, reproduced first as the Mother Earthand later as Theotokos.G. O. IbraimovaKemerovo State Universityarticlemotivating signssymbolic signsconceptual structurecultural linguisticslanguage picture of the worldHistory of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet RepublicsDK1-4735PsychologyBF1-990ENRUВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, Vol 23, Iss 3, Pp 782-789 (2021)
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RU
topic motivating signs
symbolic signs
conceptual structure
cultural linguistics
language picture of the world
History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
DK1-4735
Psychology
BF1-990
spellingShingle motivating signs
symbolic signs
conceptual structure
cultural linguistics
language picture of the world
History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
DK1-4735
Psychology
BF1-990
G. O. Ibraimova
Structural Features of the Symbolic Macroconcept of Mother: from the First Sign to the Symbol
description The research objective was to describe the Russian macroconcept of mother. The author analyzed its motivating and symbolic signs. The study was based on the National Corpus of the Russian language (www.ruscorpora.ru) and featured 15 etymological dictionaries. Nine out of 34 motivating signs could be identified as symbolic: creator, educator, Mother of God, head, earth, queen bee, start, reason, source. Most of the motivating signs indicated the antiquity of the macroconcept. Symbolic signs appeared to make up a quarter of the total volume of motivating signs. They can be combined into three groups: 1) (Divine) motherhood (four signs: creator, educator, Mother of God, earth); 2) foundation (three signs: start, reason, source); 3) superiority / leadership (two signs: head, queen bee). These three groups reflect the peculiarities of the Russian linguistic mentality, which preserved the memory of the cult of the Great Mother, reproduced first as the Mother Earthand later as Theotokos.
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title Structural Features of the Symbolic Macroconcept of Mother: from the First Sign to the Symbol
title_short Structural Features of the Symbolic Macroconcept of Mother: from the First Sign to the Symbol
title_full Structural Features of the Symbolic Macroconcept of Mother: from the First Sign to the Symbol
title_fullStr Structural Features of the Symbolic Macroconcept of Mother: from the First Sign to the Symbol
title_full_unstemmed Structural Features of the Symbolic Macroconcept of Mother: from the First Sign to the Symbol
title_sort structural features of the symbolic macroconcept of mother: from the first sign to the symbol
publisher Kemerovo State University
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