Gradual concepts of temperature and their representation in Kalmyk folklore. Part 2

The article is a continuation of the previously published work examining gradual concepts of temperature and their representation in Kalmyk folklore. The study investigates multi-genre Kalmyk-language folklore texts and their Russian translations, both published and unpublished ones. By the method of continuous sampling from the research material, examples with the use of graded adjectives were selected. The corpus approach was used in the work, which allows us to speak about the completeness of the obtained research results based on the texts of Kalmyk folklore. According to the results of the study the following conclusions can be made, as follows: Kalmyk folklore mentions two temperature perception systems - 1) one with a starting point be man as such, and 2) that of standard temperature presentations for certain objects. So, in the examined materials, rain gains no temperature characteristics, while the invisible wind does receive such a property. The source of prototypical ‘hot’ objects is the Sun or fire, while that of ‘cold’ ones is the Lower World. The elements of the objective world granted both the temperature characteristics in folklore texts - wind and water - are structurally ambivalent. Weapon in folklore texts most often have the epithet киитн ‘cold’ due to the synesthesia of the semantics of death and the semantics of origin from the Lower World. Based on the material of Kalmyk epic and fairy-tale texts, it is possible to create a kind of binary “scale” of human conditions and feelings. Metaphors in examined texts do not compulsorily tend to form a ‘scale’ of human conditions and feelings.