Translation mechanisms of dialectal word meanings from household into the sacral

The article presents the specificity of national culture as a sign system in the weddingceremony on the material of national dialects. The reasons of occurrence of symbols in national consciousness are established and creationmechanisms of the lexical units with symbolical connotative meaning are stated. The basic attention in the first part of the article isgiven to solving the following questions: the nature of the symbolical, the place of the symbol in culture, the parity in the symbol materialand the spiritual. For this purpose, the author turns to philosophy. The analysis of philosophical works has allowed the author todraw a conclusion that the moment of occurrence of symbols corresponds with the moment of occurrence of culture. The fact proves tobe true that symbols were the basic tools for storage and transfer of information in the absence of writing; they created certain programsof behaviour in new important and critical situations for the people. Also, the creation of symbols allowed the people to designate andexplain the bases of the world order. In the second part of the article the author considers the symbolical in the national culture. Theauthor notes the specificity of the national culture to be focused on absolute symbolization of the surrounding reality by means of a ceremony,a ritual. The definition of symbolical lexical units is given. Mechanisms of formation of symbolical lexical units are considered inthe third part of article. In the last part translation mechanisms of lexemes with household meaning in the category of symbols are described.The following mechanisms are singled out: translation on the basis of the cognisable object, by means of situational commenting,and creation of a new lexical unit. The essence of the mechanism of translation on the basis of the cognisable object is that the symbolicalmeaning of lexemes is formed on the basis of properties, qualities and signs of objects they name. Translation by means of situationalcommenting is reproduced in cases, when the same lexical unit belongs to various episodes of the ceremony and each time possessesdifferent symbolical semantics. The third mechanism is connected with creation of a new lexical unit. Such ceremonial terminologyconcerns: ceremonial dishes, objects of ceremonial equipment. The aforesaid allows the author to draw a conclusion that in sciencethe symbol is perceived as a sign of a break from the material reality to the spiritual side. The given process is carried out by sensualreality processing by people's consciousness. The same mechanism of symbols creation is shown in the national culture within theceremony, when habitual realities are given spiritual, ideal semantics.

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