RITUAL CODE OF THE WEDDING TEXT (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF RUSSIAN AND TABASARAN LANGUAGES)

Abstract

The work presents a comparative analysis of the ritual code of culture based on the material of wedding texts in the Russian and Tabasaran languages. The study shows that, though the stages of a wedding and the set of cultural codes are mostly similar, the specificity is characterized by the internal form and background knowledge associated with the traditions and customs of these ethnic groups. The ritual code of wedding texts and rituals includes food and subject codes. The nuclear components of the food code in both languages are bread, salt and honey. Ethnocultural information is provided by such lexemes as papakha, kerchief, silver and gold jewelry, kalym and rushnik, red ribbon, maiden’s braid in the Russian language in the subject code of the Tabasaran language. Comparative analysis of the ritual codes of wedding texts of Tabasaran and Russian languages, the codes allows to conclude that they are informative not only in terms of studying substance codes, but also in terms of deepening their ideas about those characteristics and symbols that are attributed to different ethnic groups to certain subjects, dishes, actions.