THE CONCEPT OF MILKY WAY IN LINGUOSEMIOTIC AND NARRATIVE INTERPRETATION

The paper focuses on linguosemiotic and narrative analysis of MILKY WAY as a multidimensional concept which finds its manifestation in contemporary Amerindian prosaic texts. Thus, the paper integrates linguocultural, ethnocultural, mythological, and linguostylistic aspects of the study the concept. The paper proves the idea that everything in the world is interconnected, and all the processes, which take place in people’s life, find their reflection in language forms, which resemble the objects of our reality and embody their meaning in such verbal signs as syntactic structures, their way of arrangement and means of narratability. Based on linguocultural and ethnocultural analysis the paper illustrates with some samples (as vyshyvanka in Ukrainian culture or snake in Amerindian culture) that the Milky Way is not only a sign in the sky, but its philosophy is much deeper as it represents a crossing point, in which differently directed lines like some roads meet, turn direction and continue their movement from one side to the other. It makes a ground for considering it as a road to the Otherworld and a symbol of Unity, Balance and Eternity. The conclusion is made that the perspective of two facets, linguosemiotic and narrative one, makes it possible to reveal and explain the sense of the concept of MILKY WAY manifested in a literary text by different lingual indicators and markers. Liguosemiotic and narrative study the ways of verbalization the concept of MILKY WAY in a literary text, which also involves culturological, ethnocultural, mythological and linguostylistic methods of investigation, allows for the interpretation the Milky Way as a celestial phenomenon, an object that symbolizes the connection of two worlds and the sign of the road to the Otherworld that finds its actualization in verbal and non-verbal narratives.