The article considers the position of the narrator as a consciousness subject in mythological story. The presence of reasoning and motivation in the speech party of the narrator, that distinguishes the mythological text from other folklore genres, is related to peculiarities of the situation of mythological prose existence and general setting for the authenticity of the text. The actual modality of the mythological story determines text functioning within the context of the relevant conversational and spoken discourse and of acting within the discourse tendencies peculiar to the spoken language. one of such tendencies is the domination of the speaker as a subject of knowledge, opinions, evaluations, which is reflected in the subject organization of the mythological text.

The article represents the research on the rhythmic structure of funeral and memorial lamentations of varying retaining extent and differently performed (sung, given as a recitative text, and narrated). The research was done on the multimedia database “The Russian Lamentations” created by the author.

The article considers the records of the oral olonkho texts in the aspect of traditional notions about the word, which are implicit in them. Particularly, the author considers the typical verbal gestures of the epic characters, the metaphorical designations of speech, the paremias on the relevant subject, the characteristics of mythological characters - the guardians of the gift of eloquence, presented in oral variants. These data are analyzed as an example of thinking about language and speech activity of a person in a totally oral environment, that influenced among other the pragmatics of epic genre itself.

Female characters occupy very important place in the Japanese literature starting from the earliest period notions. However, their depiction in narratives changes through time. The analysis of female characters in the anonymous text “Yoshitsune” (15^th c.) allows us to point out both traditional literary and folkloric elements. on the one hand, there are undifferentiated descriptions of the appearance and personal traits characteristic of court literature. on the other hand, there are evident connections with didactic stories and urban literature of the Middle Ages with their stereotyped, plain characterizations and lack of character evolution. Consequently, one can speak of a new type of female characters, which at the same time are still connected to the preceding literary tradition.

The article is devoted to the folk tradition of dream interpretation. Most of the interpretations describe the significance of visual images.However, besides the visual channel of perception, all senses can be involved in dreams: hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Based on the fieldwork conducted in the Poltava region (2012-2016), the article examines cases when the sensations experienced by the dreamer determine the interpretation of the dream.

The article analyzes various modes of rituals interpretation by tradition bearers. There are several interpretative “models” that are used for explain the different groups of rites. The author also considers a connection between the functions of rituals and the folklore context in which they exist, as well as the “models” used to interpret them.

The article deals with the specifics of studying the uncensored Soviet folklore (data-collection and methodology, restrictions on research). Some generalizations about the functioning of uncensored Soviet folklore are made.

The current paper examines practices of indirect resistance to Soviet regime in the republics of the Soviet Baltic as well as its perception by tourists from the rest of the USSR coming to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia on vacation. Special attention is given to the reasons for miscommunication between those groups and to inability of the addressees to interpret negative messages directed to them.

The article considers reasons why the “Stranger” image is being formed in regard to home comers returning to Kazakhstan from Mongolia and China. Based on data collected during her fieldwork, the author aims to show that traditional beliefs and ritual cycles play an important part in the sociocultural confrontation along with the financial, social,cultural, and religious factors.

This paper is focused on different types of name avoidance in the Soviet period, from complete omission of the opponent’s name to complicated ways of its neutralization by means of special formulae and context. one of the article’s main objectives is to describe the respected mechanisms, both semantic and formal, and to elucidate the inner structures of neutralization formulas.

With the passing of generations, the repertoire of childlore changes. The stories that used to make children shake in fear under the sheets, now provoke only laughter or do not cause any emotions at all. What’s terrible in today’s terrible stories? What do practitioners mean by a horror story? These questions seem to be the most important.

The article is dedicated to the childhood experience of prose writing. The author considers it as an example of a game of written creating a paracosm (fictional world). A detailed investigation of ways of imagining a space in teenager science fiction is presented. The author considers specifics in the process of text writing, in course of which it attains some elements of a verbal communication with focus on “living through” the events by the author.

A review of the book “Themes and variations” by Sergey Neklyudov, in which the author analyses fiction using methods of folkloristics. Literary themes, forming basis of plots, are represented as elements of a literary tradition, whose development can be followed through time.