RAVEN / CROW in Myth and Language. Part 2. Cognitive Semiotic Analysis of Modern English Rock Lyrics

Колесник, Олександр Сергійович (2026) RAVEN / CROW in Myth and Language. Part 2. Cognitive Semiotic Analysis of Modern English Rock Lyrics Germanic Philology. Journal of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University (858-85). pp. 108-124. ISSN 2518-7090

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Abstract

The article addresses the linguocognitive and linguosemiotic features of verbalizers of the mythic concept RAVEN / CROW in modern English lyrics of rock performers. The results of the analysis of the said linguistic signs' features (carried via componential analysis, conceptual analysis, frame modeling) are interpreted in terms of interdisciplinary analogies and synthesized in the framework of the theory of myth-oriented semiosis. Song discourse is considered as an environment for creating meanings, on the basis of which an alternative (in particular, pop cultural) world is generated. Culturological, linguocultural and systemic factors that determine intentional modeling of alternative worlds and the formation of corresponding subcultures are discussed. The language-semiotic (discursive) fragment of the alternative world as a multimodal construct is based on a specific "propositive matrix", which mirrors a variant of semantic correlations once active in the structure of the archaic variant of the mythic space. Diachronically variable designations of the RAVEN / CROW concept are used to demonstrate the dynamics of the mythic space's transitions, which determines 7 periods of the existence of linguo-cultures. The basic mechanisms of adaptation of the content of the concept-mythologeme in dynamic variants of the worldviews and mythic space are identified as direct extrapolation, adaptation, and transformation. The internal mechanism of extrapolation is demonstrated in the abstract-logical "propositive matrix". Special attention is paid to the linguocognitive characteristics of the studied linguistic signs as the basis of transformational categorization processes. The discussed cognitive models are considered as components of the frame cluster. The established characteristics of language units and the reconstructed cognitive models are interpreted in the context of the universal model of the hierarchical dimension of an open system.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	raven; lyrics; song discourse; alternative world; myth; frame
Subjects:	Статті у базах даних > Index Copernicus Статті у періодичних виданнях > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Divisions:	Факультет романо-германської філології > Кафедра германської філології
Depositing User:	Професор Олександр Сергійович Колесник
Date Deposited:	04 Jun 2026 07:46
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2026 07:46
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/57878

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