THE CONCEPT JAHRESZEIT AS A COMPONENT OF DOMAIN ZEIT IN CHILDREN’S FOLKLORE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of “Children's folklore”, the concept JAHRESZEIT is a component of the domain ZEIT. Particular attention is paid to domain verbalizers. The study also revealed its main valor characteristics. The concept JAHRESZEIT and its verbal characteristics are the subject of our research, and its object is the lyrics of children's folklore. Children's folklore is traditionally referred to tongue twisters, counters and songs and can be divided into works created by children and works written exclusively for children. The analysis of empirical material enabled us to define in the cognitive-semantic space of children's poems one of the main domains - domain ZEIT. The time category belongs to ontological entities. With its help people have the opportunity to structure and order their life world. The concept JAHRESZEIT presented in children's poems is quite diverse. The analysis of the texts of the poems shows that the seasons are stated quite differently in terms of their frequency. A quantitative analysis of the texts of the poems allows us to say that winter is the most frequent representative of the concept JAHRESZEIT. This can be explained by the fact that in winter children have the opportunity to do their favorite things, such as: sledding, skating, making a snowman and watching the snowflakes. Summer is often described in the poems as the season of the year, when there is an opportunity to observe calmly the outside world and appreciate its beauty and harmony. The third and fourth places are occupied by autumn and spring, which can be explained by the fact that these seasons are the most stressful and therefore the least interesting for children. Taking into consideration the fact that any folklore work can act as a multicultural phenomenon and be at the intersection of genres, it seems to us very interesting to consider the verbalization of this domain on the example of other folklore works.