ITEMS OF FOLK CLOTHING AND COSTUME IN CHILDREN’S GENRES OF RUSSIAN FOLKLORE

The article examines how some Russian folk costume items were depicted in folklore genres for children, such as lullabies, nursery rhymes, and tongue twisters, and why they were mentioned in the children’s folklore texts. The list of pieces of clothing and costume details includes a wide array of items ranging from infant attire to outfits for young adults and married and elderly people. The author demonstrates the use of hyperbole, metaphor and metonymy, as well as variants of modality in the depiction of costume elements from the perspective of reality/unreality, possibility/impossibility, intention and desire. The article especially focuses on the goals of the inclusion of these subjects in the pictorial fabric of the texts of children’s folklore. These goals could be cognitive (i.e., not only improving vocabulary but also providing a deeper understanding of the correspondence of certain details of the costume to the socio-age stratification), of a programming nature (in terms of the well-being of the child’s fate), developmental regarding the child’s emotional perception of reality, and socializing.