Barylova G. The correlation of verbal and non-verbal components in traditional national games (based on Ukrainian dialects of eastern Slobozhanshchyna)

Slobozhanshchina dialects, which are spread in south-eastern area of Ukrainian ethnic language continuum (Luhansk region) and are connected with old patois of northern, south-western and south-eastern dialects by origin. The aim of research is description of correlation of verbal and nonverbal components of Ukrainian folk games in East Slobozhanshchina dialects; ethnolinguistic analysis of vocabulary, which is used in Slobozhanshchina folk games; finding of invariable and variable language units in vocabulary of folk games. The methods:descriptive,linguogeographical. Applied importance of the work is fixed and putting into scientific circulation linguistic, ethnographical and folk materials, that can be used in dialectal lexicography, Slavic etymology, and synthetic works of Ukrainian dialectology, ethnography.The dissertation presents the fixation of nominative units of thematic groups which include the games’ vocabulary of the dialects of Eastern Slobozhanshchyna, researches their semantic structure, describes the ways how to nominate the games in the dialects of Eastern Slobozhanshchyna in a broader context. It foresees the consideration of the objects and actions of the games’ content as an non-verbal part of the text. The relation of the semantics and symbolics and objects with actions of the games’ content to typical Slavic language semiotic systems was established. The areology of games’ terminology and units of the verbal component of the games was revealed. The versatility of the game phenomenon with its old spires was found. The connection of traditional national games with a line of spiritual conceptions, national customs which reveal themselves in common symbolics of objects, phenomena, denominations etc was analyzed.