Shuliak S. The magic function of language in the language world view, based on the Ukrainian folk charms

The work is devoted to the comprehensive study of the language of Ukrainian folk incantations, primarily in the aspect of the implementation of such texts of the magic language function. The definition and the essence of magic, the magic role of language in the mythological worldview, criteria of identification of text verbalizers of the sacral is considered. The definition of magic practice as a supernatural (not profane) influence and a magic text as a verbal component of a syncretic rite is made. The system of typological features of a sacral text is proposed: on the phonemic level – assonances and alliterations, the accumulation of identical or similar sounds and sound combinations; on the syllabic and prosodic levels – repetitive elements of rhythmization of the text; on morphological and word-formation levels – repetitive morphemes; in the lexis – the use of sacral appeals and onyms, numeratifs; on the level of word combinations and phraseology – clichés and repetitions; on the sentence level – the inclination to the syntactic units of the same length, the inversion; on the level of the text – the traditional structure. The author’s definition of an incantation as an oral or a written sacred text, called to affect a man or nature by means of the supernatural way (from the modern point of view – irrational) in order to attain or prevent certain states, has been developed. The incantation is interpreted as a mythological ritual continuum. The verbal component of incantations in the context of ritual integrity was studied, the ancient Ukrainian paganism as a world-view source of the ideology of Ukrainian folk incantations was interpreted.