Semantic Continuumof Myth

• Published in: RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
• Main Author: Tatyana E. Vladimirova
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2020
• Subjects: myth; concept; totem; sacred; semantic-semantic field; chronotopic; being; evolution; cultural hero; Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar; P101-410; Semantics; P325-325.5; Steamboat; Russian North
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2020-11-2-161-174; https://doaj.org/article/5904f129137143dcb57b77bd7ef1d650

Language, the first cultural phenomenon, received textual expression in myths, of which the oldest tell of the mystical relationship of the tribe with the animal. Consideration of the concepts that arose on this basis, and then of “conceptual myths” (OM Freidenberg) about the totem-ancestor makes it...