TY - JOUR AU - Duć-Fajfer, Olena PY - 2021/12/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - “To Sing Your Song in Your Backyard”: Identity in Space/ Space Identity JF - Rocznik Ruskiej Bursy JA - RocznikRuskiejBursy VL - 17 IS - SE - Дискурс • Discourse DO - 10.12797/RRB.17.2021.17.02 UR - https://journals.akademicka.pl/rrb/article/view/4357 SP - 59-80 AB - <p>The article deals with the dynamic spatial and identity relationship in the context of the destruction of the Lemko ethnic space after their deportations in the years 1945-1947. The first part of the article outlines the textual expression of symbiosis, the consolidation of the Lemko community world through spatial and landscape values and symbols with archetypal features. Then, the mechanism of the reinvention myth is identified and indicated, which aims to save the power of the native space by contrasting it with the foreign space using the sacred-profane division. The slow depletion of this mechanism in the disenchanted world introduces more and more images of pragmatic space into the symbolic universe. The mechanism of the myth, on the other hand, is activated in the ritual circular migration that connects the shattered Lemko world by celebrating annual community rituals / holidays establishing new spatial meanings. The concept of newness does not mean that they are detached from the identity of space and the spatial identity that is the basis for Lemko subjectivity. The second part of the work presents the influence of the spatial factor on the linguistic identity of the Lemkos. Based on statistical data, the use of language rules and the observed linguistic attitudes and practices, a thesis is put forward that native spatial values feed the mechanisms and activities of revitalization in the Lemko language.</p> ER -