Plakhova О.А., Аstafurova T.N. DEMYTHOLOGIZATION OF THE CONCEPT “FAIRY” IN ENGLISH FOLK TALE DISCOURSE
Plakhova Olga Aleksandrovna
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Theory and Methods of Teaching of Foreign Languages and Cultures Department, Togliatti State University ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Head of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes Department, Volgograd State University ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Abstract: the article describes demythologization of the mythological concept "fairy" as a process of coexistence of mythological and non-mythological attributes in the concept. The referents belonging to the peripheral areas of the mythological concept are characterized by predominance of socially significant attributes. The process of demythologization has a vivid verbal explication within English folk tale discourse.
Key words: demythologization, mythological concept, cognitive attribute, folk tale discourse, mythological consciousness.
DEMYTHOLOGIZATION OF THE CONCEPT “FAIRY” IN ENGLISH FOLK TALE DISCOURSE by Plakhova О.А., Аstafurova T.N. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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