LONELINESS IN THE SONG FOLKLORE ON MATRIMONIAL THEMES (ON THE MATERIAL OF BREST REGION)

Abstract

The article analyzes folklore-song interpretation of loneliness and accompanying feelings in the context of actualization of certain cultural imperatives and genre scenarios related to marriage and subsequent family life, which is considered mainly from the position of problematization of the young daughter-in-law inclusion in it. The main attention is paid to hymeneal songs, nonceremonial lyrics and ballads on matrimonial themes, which model the transformation process of the lyrical heroine (ceremonial character) with the help of such conceptual codes as action, locative, ornithological, as well as using symbols of isolation-fencing, metamorphosis and inclusion of neophyte into a new group. The considered folklore texts (in their semiotic meaning) act as a peculiar language, often the only one legitimized by tradition, through which in real communication situations its «bearers» articulate the state of solitude, isolation of a bridegirl and young married woman, as well as related social and psychological problems and such feelings or states as longing, despondency, destitution, desolation, fear, hopelessness, suffering.