An ethnolinguistic study devoted to the traditional Bulgarian wedding captured in terms of rite de passage. In it, the rite itself is treated as a "cultural" text, formed by elements belonging to different semiotic languages. Taking advantage of the fact that an activity undertaken during the performance of a rite potentially combines elements of its personal, temporal, spatial (location in time and space), object code (use of a ritual prop), verbal and musical code (if accompanied by the utterance of words or music), in the excerpting of source materials the focus was on the action code of the wedding. Ethnolinguistic analysis using ethnographic and linguistic data (folklore texts, terminology, phraseologisms, proverbs) makes it possible to discover the symbolic meanings conveyed by specific actions and the functions they perform in the semantic plan of the ritual.
Published by the University of Silesia Publishing House, 2018.
Format: 240 x 170 mm, 388 pages.
Hardcover.
Piece in excellent condition.
A rarity for lovers of Balkan climate, ethnography and ethnology, hardly available in traditional form.
