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Aspects of Historical Poetics and Pragmatics of Slavic Charms

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Although traditional verbal charms and incantation rituals have received extensive attention in Slavic ethnolinguistics and folklore studies, the need still exists for a more in-depth poetic and contextual (re)analysis of ritual folk texts, more in particular of the interrelation between their stylistic, compositional, referential and functional properties. In this context, the article points towards the possible benefits of an integrated pragmatic and (ethno)poetic text analysis that centers on the semiotic concepts of iconicity and indexicality. Through an examination of a number of South and East Slavic sample cases, the authors discuss the various ways in which poetic and figurative stylization and structuring in verbal charms correlates (indexically and iconically) with their meanings and functions within the performative (actional-ritual) and broader sociocultural context. In doing so, they attempt to demonstrate at least partially how an analysis along poetic-pragmatic guidelines may prove fruitful for the revalorization of the poetic, performative, social and cultural efficiency of charms and incantations as verbal rituals, and thence for a recovery of the sociocultural ‘memory’ of these ritual texts.
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poetics, pragmatics, folklore, ethnolinguistics, Slavic, charms, incantations

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Yudin, Aleksey, and Pieter Plas. “Aspects of Historical Poetics and Pragmatics of Slavic Charms.” Folklorica. Journal of the Slavic and East European Folklore Association, edited by Natalie Kononenko, vol. XIV, 2009, pp. 1–26.
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Yudin, A., & Plas, P. (2009). Aspects of Historical Poetics and Pragmatics of Slavic Charms. Folklorica. Journal of the Slavic and East European Folklore Association, XIV, 1–26.
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Yudin, Aleksey, and Pieter Plas. 2009. “Aspects of Historical Poetics and Pragmatics of Slavic Charms.” Edited by Natalie Kononenko. Folklorica. Journal of the Slavic and East European Folklore Association XIV: 1–26.
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Yudin, Aleksey, and Pieter Plas. 2009. “Aspects of Historical Poetics and Pragmatics of Slavic Charms.” Ed by. Natalie Kononenko. Folklorica. Journal of the Slavic and East European Folklore Association XIV: 1–26.
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Yudin A, Plas P. Aspects of Historical Poetics and Pragmatics of Slavic Charms. Kononenko N, editor. Folklorica Journal of the Slavic and East European Folklore Association. 2009;XIV:1–26.
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A. Yudin and P. Plas, “Aspects of Historical Poetics and Pragmatics of Slavic Charms,” Folklorica. Journal of the Slavic and East European Folklore Association, vol. XIV, pp. 1–26, 2009.
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  abstract     = {{Although traditional verbal charms and incantation rituals have received extensive attention in Slavic
ethnolinguistics and folklore studies, the need still exists for a more in-depth poetic and contextual
(re)analysis of ritual folk texts, more in particular of the interrelation between their stylistic,
compositional, referential and functional properties. In this context, the article points towards the
possible benefits of an integrated pragmatic and (ethno)poetic text analysis that centers on the semiotic
concepts of iconicity and indexicality. Through an examination of a number of South and East Slavic
sample cases, the authors discuss the various ways in which poetic and figurative stylization and
structuring in verbal charms correlates (indexically and iconically) with their meanings and functions
within the performative (actional-ritual) and broader sociocultural context. In doing so, they attempt to
demonstrate at least partially how an analysis along poetic-pragmatic guidelines may prove fruitful for
the revalorization of the poetic, performative, social and cultural efficiency of charms and incantations
as verbal rituals, and thence for a recovery of the sociocultural ‘memory’ of these ritual texts.}},
  author       = {{Yudin, Aleksey and Plas, Pieter}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{1--26}},
  title        = {{Aspects of Historical Poetics and Pragmatics of Slavic Charms}},
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