The article is devoted to the analysis of semantic, usual and stylistic correlations of lexems, naming a female before marriage, as words of one root for Russian (дева, девка, девочка, девушка), in their asymmetrical and differentional correlations with not by one-root designations of male before marriage (юноша, парень, молодец, мальчик). For comparison the material from other slavic languages is involved.
Any text of Folklore is a meta-language system. It consists of simple units (meta characters, or meta-marks), each of which has some sacred meaning, characteristic of the national culture and mythology in general. The article examines the semiotics of sign of the eastern Slavs, which are the semantic center of people’s understanding of the cat.
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