THE SYMBOLIC MEANING OF THE RITES OF BIRTH AND CHRISTENING: MATERIALS OF N. LESKOV'S JOURNALISM AND FOLKLORE STUDIES
This paper examines the symbolic meaning of the rites of birth and christening in the Russian linguistic culture on the material of N. Leskov's journalism and folklore studies of the woodland part of the modern Bryansk region. Fixation of the symbolic meaning of the rite of birth in journalism of N. Leskov is linguocultural fact especially because in modern conditions this ritual text is no longer a part of the traditional spiritual folk culture. It is established that the symbolic meaning of the rituals defined by the key symbols of gates, bath, breaking dishes, porridge, and lexical meaning of the symbol becomes the embodiment of the conceptual vector of the rite.