MYTHOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS PLOTS AS A SOURCE OF PRECEDENT STATEMENTS IN ARAB CULTURE

Abstract

The article is a study of mythological and religious plots as a source of precedent statements in the Arab culture. Myths, legends, plots from the Koran form the core sources zone of precedent phenomena which can be culturally universal and ethnically specific. The article considers precedent statements, the “donor” of which are mythological and religious plots. These precedent statements function is the mass media discourse. Such statements are known to most representatives of the Arab world, are characterized by recurrence, and are of cognitive, emotional and axiological significance. Knowledge of mythological and religious plots is important not only in a monocultural environment but also in the process of intercultural communication, which will contribute to the formation of ethnocultural competence. Ethnocultural competence is a part of the individual’s general model of value-oriented behavior, which consists of linguistic, social, communicative, informational, and axiological structural elements.