Stavytska Y. Oral oneirocritical narrative: context-functional aspect. – Qualifying Scholarly Paper Functioning as Manuscript

Narrations and oral dream book is an important component of vibrant folk tradition. Modern research on semiotics of culture convincingly demonstrates that popular interpretations of dreams is a stable and universal mechanism for the translation of ethnically conditioned ideological system. These interpretive texts are the key to understanding the symbolic language of folklore. The term «folklore (oral) narrative» was crystallized in the conceptual terminology field of folklore during the 1990s–2000s. Taking into account all international experience of folklore narratives study in the dissertation, clear definition of an oral narrative has been formulated as an oneiromantic narrative that arises in the process of communication, the result of which is the text, formed according to stereotyped models of traditional culture. All tasks of the dissertation were subordinated to the main goal – clarification of the context-functional characteristics of oneirologic narration. The new scientific approach of the work is based on the fact that for the first time in Ukrainian folkloristics oral oneirologic narratives were comprehensively studied - the specifics of their functioning in communicative, socio-cultural and ritual contexts; the conclusions of predecessors regarding the genre characteristics of verbal oneirologic texts have been specified; the features of narrative structure of magic-sacred oneirocritical texts, introductory narratives of folk epos – Ukrainian folk dumas and ballads were identified. The thesis analyzes discourse-making concepts «prophetic dream», «soul», «afterlife» which reveal a powerful cumulative potential in the stories of enchanting fairy tales, narratives of «zavmyralnyky», mythological memorates and fabulates. A wide field experience of studying Ukrainian folk dream book, accumulated within the framework of the international Ukrainian-English project initiated by K. Hrushevska, which was used in the works of anthropologist Ch. Seligman is generalized. Previously uknown archive materials of the early XX century and contemporary field notes, in particular notes made by the author of the thesis and students of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, were introduced into scientific use as well.