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Ritual Letter: Backbone Features and Ethno-Cultural Specifics
- Authors: Dmitrieva O.A.1, Gulinov D.Y.1
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Affiliations:
- Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University
- Issue: No 13(881) (2023)
- Pages: 15-22
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/320158
- ID: 320158
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Abstract
The article discusses the system-forming features of ritual letter, varieties of “letter of happiness”, which include the forced transmission of letters, the presence of instructions to conduct a certain ceremony - to prepare “holy bread” from “holy leaven”, in a strictly fixed order, manipulation of the recipient’s religious feelings through verbal and non-verbal components. The material for the study was ritual letters in Russian, English, French and German, received by the authors from May 2020 to May 2023, as well as posted on thematic sites dedicated to Internet fraud.
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Olga Aleksandrovna Dmitrieva
Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University
Author for correspondence.
Email: dmoa@yandex.ru
Doctor of Philology (Dr. habil.), Professor, Head of the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University
Russian FederationDmitry Yuryevich Gulinov
Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University
Email: satellite74@yandex.ru
Doctor of Philology (Dr. habil.), Professor, Head of the Department of Romance Philology Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University
Russian FederationReferences
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