Abstract:
Modern folkloristics as an independent science solves a number of important problems: comprehends its subject,
creates its own theory, and develops folklore research methods. The area of poetic style in folklore is essentially
important among the specified problems. It covers various aspects of structural and figurative organization
and artistic expressiveness of folkloreworks. The complexity of a research of these questions comes
from the need of their consideration at the different levels of folklore poetry: mental (as an expression of national
consciousness), verbal (as the component of the verbal text) and functional (as the method of performing
practice). We do not claim to give inclusive solution of the problem; in this article the subject of our research
is one of particular manifestations of folklore art style – loci communes or so-called «typicality» representing
the poetic device which is the most widespread in the world folklore.
