Polish-Ukrainian song “Hej, sokoły!” (“Hey, Eagles!”) as an intercultural communicative phenomenon

Abstract

The subject of the study is the Polish version of the song “Hej, sokoły!” regarded as a multi-dimensional intercultural communicative phenomenon from the point of view of the external and internal contexts and correlations of its individual and social aspects. The analysis has been undertaken using the method of sociocultural interpretation of the external context, the method of information decoding for identifying the author’s intentions and functions of textual symbols. For the systemic and incremental study of the song the author uses the modeling method, in particular, the linear model of communication with considering the constituents: w h o – w h a t – b y w h a t m e a n s – t o w h om. In the framework of this model the article has studied the motives of writing the song, its genre peculiarities. The ways of verbalizing its semantic dominants and the addressee of the song have been determined. The conclusion states that “Hej, sokoły!” is not just a romantic ballad tinged with grief for the lost, but a certain intercultural Ukrainian-Polish phenomenon that teaches not to forget history and given a lesson in patriotism.