LINGUOSEMIOTIC SPECIFICITY OF ENGLISH FOLK FAIRY TALE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF MYTHONYMS AND VERBS OF THE LEXICO-SEMANTIC GROUP "PROTECTION")
The aim of the article is the identification of the linguosemiotic specificity of the English folk fairy tale. The peculiarities of the semiotic consideration of nominal and verbal units in the aspect of text connectivity are the subject of the study. Nominal units are represented by mythonyms, each of which contains concentrated linguosemiotic data. These data may be of interest to both linguists and folklorists. The choice of the verbal sphere “Protection” is connected with the variety of verbal units caused by protective focus of a large part of both pagan and Christian religious-household activities. The texts of eighty-seven folk fairy tales taken from Joseph Jacobs' collection “English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales” served as the material of the study. With the help of the concordance-building program (Simple Concordance Program) the syntactic environment of the most frequent protective verbs was identified that allowed the authors of the article to conduct the description of right and left valences of the verbs. By the means of the aforementioned program, the key mythonyms of English fairy tales were considered from the perspective of text connectivity (the processes of denotation and designation in nominative chains). In the process of the clarification of these key mythonyms' etymology, different linguistic data of the Cornish, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English languages were studied. In this case, the results of the etymological analysis of the mythonym “Galligantua” may be considered as fruitful. Besides, in the article a case of the denotateme-categoreme (the two units of text connectivity) blending was identified.