Lykhohrai R. The political aspect of Ukrainian folklore.

Thesis deals overgenre category "political folklore". Deals with the study of "political folklore" in the works of researchers XIX - XXI centuries. Analyzes their contribution to the research question. The dissertation proposed a strategy for identifying political texts, depending on the subject and story, and based on different high and low semiosis level. This emphasizes the important role of collective author on political differentiation of the text. Traced the transmission of political meanings in diachronic and synchronic. Presented political stereotypes of ethnic, religious, social, ideological, racial groups at different levels of political conflict and dependent nature of their interaction "own - a stranger" On examples from different genres and times presented national political concepts of the indigenous population of Ukraine. Also demonstrated their ways of implementation and transmission at present folklore communication. The dissertation analyzes the poetic depiction of political features images, their attribution and mental markers. Done distribution of political texts: prose - on conflict topics; social lyrics and proverbs - according to valuation paradigm of "collective author"; neoplasms - mechanisms for implementation in statics and dynamics. The thesis analyzes the ways of transmission of political ideas of traditional folklore to modern texts with their new formation and vision.