The concept of a doctor in the natal narratives shows ambivalent semantics. This semantics is formed under the influence of such factors as logic of the narrative, actantial positions in particular, which the concept of the doctor takes up in the natal narrative (assistant or antagonist); traditional folklore conceptualizations about people who possess “mysterious” knowledge; and the importance of the doctor to a modern human as a mediator between the patient and the disease.
In the article contemporary natal narrative is studied from the perspective of the influence of mythological and story types of texts on it. Natal narrative being similar to mythological text confirms some norms of world outlook and behavior. Natal narrative, like many texts of the story type, is about extraordinary events in a woman’s life or about an exceptional situation, which has happened to her acquaintances. The heroine of the natal narrative crosses a definite semantic border, reasserting the status of her exceptional nature.
Структурно-семантическое исследование современной устной традиции позволяет уви- деть в индивидуальных исследованиях о персональном опыте беременности и родов явления схематизма и повторяемости. Мотив можно рассматривать как ключевой элемент анализа современных натальных нарративов. Часть мотивов аккумулирует традиционную фольклор- ную и мифологическую семантику.
EN
Structural and semantic study of contemporary oral tradition reveals in the individual studies about the personal experience of pregnancy and childbirth the phenomena of schematization and repetition. This can be seen as a key element in the analysis of modern natal narratives. Certain motives accumulate traditional folkloric and mythological semantics.
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.