FOLK HERMENEUTICS OF ETHNIC SEMS IN UKRAINIAN FOLK PROSE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of folk hermeneutics, which is defined as a way of interpreting natural, physical, existential phenomena and processes.Interethnic communication and interethnic polylogue implies that subjects of communication have to accept intrinsic cultural information and comprehend, understand its similarity, difference or other. Awareness is identified as an instrument of knowledge, comprehension of received knowledge, comparison and perception of results. Folk hermeneutics retransmits and interprets ethno-important information, restricts the negative influence of inorganic cultural elements. The folk prose characters demonstrate the peculiarities of the genetic memory of the ethnos and reveal the specifics of their modification under the influence of historical facts and specific realities. Traditional images get a certain «reformatting», contrasted multidimensional characters, there are features of the new time, and so on.