Abstract
Abstract: The article deals with the functions of animals in Dutch folk tales. The
Dutch folk tales are almost not known among the readers and researches, which makes
them a good material for analysis. In the article twenty fi ve folk tales were analyzed, fi fteen
of them were published and eleven were found on the web-site of a folklore research
institute in Amsterdam “Meertens institute”. The animals from the folk tales are regarded
in this work as a zoo-metaphor, which corresponds with the theory of conceptual metaphor
of G.Lakoff and M.Johnson. The idea of conceptual metaphor and the accepting
of animals as metaphors let the author speak about the refl ection of a perception of the
world by the Dutch folk in the animal concepts. Three main functions of the animals were
noted in the work: a hero, an instrument and a unit. A mention should be made about the
fact that two of these functions can be represented at the same time: a hero and a unit. So
that the function of a hero can be divided in two ones: “a hero-unit” and “a real hero”.
| Original language | Russian |
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| Journal | Stephanos |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2016 |