World of Sounds and Silence: Semiotics of Sound and Speech in the Traditional Cultures of the Slavs.



Svetlana Tolstaya, Tatyana Agapkina and others
Annotation
The book studies the sound code in the traditional culture of the Slavs. Semiotic characteristics and the mythology of nature noises, sounds of the animals, music, speech, as well as silence are thoroughly investigated on the basis of various rituals and folklore genres.

a voice as a verbal amulet (apotropeia)
  • the semantics of the text
  • the quality of voice,
  • The sound organization of the text includes rhyme, rhythm, sound repetitions, etc.
a voice as an action
  • The human voice is the strongest and most obvious marker of "this" world. Voice and sound create a kind of fence that protects space from danger.
  • to protect
  • to heal
  • to meausre distance
  • to connect to other world
  • to get something
  • to reach something (spring)
In traditional culture Voice and sound as apotropeias have different "diapazones" of functioning.
Thus, in magical practice, the usual voice does not seem to exist, since only its marked modifications are used.
onomatopoeia (animalistic sounds)
  • successful hunt
  • Breeding
  • Wealth of the family
  • Wealth of the farm and animals
  • Christmas carol
  • Wedding
  • Protect from the Vampire (Makedonia)
  • Healing (to tranfer your sickness to an animal)
Voice in traditional culture combine zoe (bare life, animalistic) and bios (life in community).
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