Mushketyk L. The anthropocentrism of a Ukrainian Carpathians folk tale: verbal tradition of the Ukrainian and Hungarian nations.

The topicality of the research of L.G. Mushketik is caused by the high interest dedicated to a person as a phenomenon, by the "anthropological turn" of the modernity. The aim of the research is to highlight the anthropocentrism on a comparative material derived from the Ukrainian and Hungarian fairy tales spread over the Ukrainian Carpathians, in particular the magic and domestic ones. To this end several destinetive were sigled out and consider: a hero, characters - the narrator - listeners / readers, and also the main anthropological concepts and binary oppositions of a language-folklore picture of the world, which, in their turn, can be split into allied concepts ("fate", "time" and "space", oppositions - "male / female", "one's own / another's", "clever / foolish", "poor / rich", etc). The concepts of "desire", "family", "taith", "nature" were also analyzed in the research and there were described their peculiarity in a folk tale.The ethno-local peculiarity of the regional tales has been influenced by numeral borrowings, mainly Hungarian, which are discussed in the dissertation as well. They are, for example, some topics and motives, formulas, acting characters, lexical features, which are changed being accommodated to the system of the other language and culture. Certain parallels with the modernity were also made in the dissertation, since a person, despite the change of his/her outer world, experienced almost no change inside. It is stated in the recearch that long life of a tale and its lay-lasting value among the nations of the world is explained, to a considerable extent, by the universality of its world-view guidelines, humanism, assertion of the universal values and views.