Semantics of formula expression in the epos of the Mongolian people

The article reviews poetic and stylistic features of works of folklore of the Mongolian people. The ethno-poetic constants revealing national specifics of the text have correlations with the deep archetypes which go back to the general tradition. The author considers one of the archaic formula expressions which is presented in folklore of the Mongols, Buryats, Kalmyks and Oirads. Metrically ordered epos narration saved the formula expressions from century to century with semantic, stylistic and lexical transformations. Despite the phasic and typological heterogeneity of epic texts of the Mongolian people, common ethnically peculiar poetic formulas are found in all local traditions. Such formulas in folklore of the Mongolian people consisting of constant epithets, steady comparisons, thematic standards, stylistic cliche, figurative stereotypes kept a genetic community, common sources of oral and poetic tradition.