CREATIVITY OF THE BUKOVINIAN FOLK PRAYERS

Prayer is a multifaceted phenomenon of the humanitarian paradigm of thinking: prayer is a genre of fiction, a fideistic text, a genre of confessional communication, a folklore text. The relevance of the article is conditioned by the need of studying of the folklore texts of Bukovinian dialects. The purpose of the article is to analyze the folk apocryphal Bukovinian prayers, known in many variants, which are folklore texts. Research methods. In the article as the main general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis are used, as well as linguistic – method of linguistic observation, descriptive, comparative and historical methods. Conclusions. In Bukovina apocryphal prayers about the suffering of Jesus are well-known. They belong to the motivational prayers, prayers-calls, which don’t contain an appeal to higher power, but on the contrary, God’s appeal to people, which corresponds to the scheme якщо..., то. In folk tradition the prayer is called очінаші, молитви and usually functioning as a plural noun. The motif of continuity of prayer, which is characterized by a stylistic figure of anadiplosis, is realized in prayers. The naive picture of the world of dialect carrier interprets biblical information. Prayers are as close as possible to the realities of the Bukovina region, as a result of which in folklore texts there are tokens that denote the landscape, the life of the bearers of Bukovinian dialects, for example, tokens which denote kinship. Folk consciousness on the basis of folk etymology creates a kind of linguistic pattern of poetic lines. The textual reception of prayers is a dialogue between the Mother of God and Jesus Crist. Phonetic, lexical, morphological features of dialects are reproduced in prayers.