Фольклорний текст як джерело культуроправової інформації

The article is devoted to problems regarding the linguistic and cultural analysis of folklore. It has been proved that linguistic signs, related to the routine knowledge of order, the forms of its disruption and ways of restoring it, decipher ethnically determined parameters of certain categories, including legal subjectivity, legal consciousness and legal capacity that have been coded in folk poetic texts. The research focuses on the problems of linguistic culturological description of legal information in Ukrainian folk epic texts. The systematisation of theoretical notions that ground the necessity of cognitive and interpretative comprehension of a folk text, as an initial legal knowledge transmitter, has been carried out for the first time. The choice of the linguistic culturological method for the analysis of the legal segment of oral folk creativity can be explained by the fact that culture, during its formation, is actualised in the form of folk discourses, represented by folktales, epic lyrical songs, ballads and other texts that reflect the intellect of the many generations who created and used them. Folk texts transmit elements of social knowledge, verbalise the codes of a nation’s world view and become exclusive material for the philological study of various forms of ethnic and cultural experience. The perspectives of the investigation are based on the possibility to penetrate the legal sphere of sacral knowledge, coded in different Ukrainian folk genres, by means of a broad spectrum of language means.