DANYLENKO LIUDMYLA 2025 №5

DANYLENKO LIUDMYLA

a Doctor of Philology, a professor at the Department of Slavic Philology of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University (Kyiv, Ukraine).

The linguistic representation of traditional perceptions of a woman at the turn of a change in her social status – from maidenhood to marriage – by the means of phraseology and paremiology of the Czech and Ukrainian languages is investigated in the article. The analysis is based on the material drawn from the most comprehensive national phraseological and paremiological dictionaries. The methodological base of the research consists in an interdisciplinary paradigm including culturological, ethnolinguistic, semiotic, cognitive-semantic and gender approaches. Taking into account the growing attention to gender issues in contemporary humanities, particular emphasis is placed on the idea that the image of the girl, bride and wife constitutes a cultural code that submits social, moral, ritual, sacred, family and labor-related meanings ethnolinguistically.

The relevance of the study consists in the comparative analysis of phraseological and paremiological semantics in two Slavic languages from different branches – East Slavic and West Slavic. The ways of linguistic interpretation of behavioral and moral-ethical norms in various traditional Slavic cultures are analyzed for the first time. The classification of the analyzed material is structured around thematic groups: 1.The girl as a potential bride. 2. Norm and deviation: age, delay, otherness. 3. The girl’s dream of marriage and the wedding calendar code. 4. Semantics of action: marriage as transformation. 5. Gender asymmetry in matrimonial imagery. 6. Ambivalence of the feminine code: woman as gift or burden. 7. Contrasting matrimonial symbolism: to bloom – to wither. 8. Woman’s significance after marriage: housewife, daughter-in-law.

Joint ethnocultural constants in the Czech and Ukrainian languages as well as specific linguistic markers of national mentality those capture social expectations, norms and gender-based role behavior within matrimonial discourse, are shown in the research. The prospect of the further research consists in the study of dynamics of the female image in contemporary phraseology and paremiology, shaped by the coexistence or conflict with traditional models under the influence of sociocultural changes.

Keywords: ethnolinguistics, folk traditions, linguistic worldview, phraseology, paremiology, Ukrainian language, Czech language, image of a woman, marriage, gender, feminine cultural code, stereotype.

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