Vestnik Permskogo universiteta: Rossijskaâ i zarubežnaâ filologiâ (Jul 2018)
VERSHININA FROM VERSHININO
Abstract
The review presents one of new lexicographic publications by Tomsk linguistic scholars – Idiolectal Onomasticon of the Siberian Old Resident (compilers E. V. Ivantsova, E. A. Berestova; edited by E. V. Ivantsova. – Tomsk, Tomsk University Press, 2015. – 308 p.). Onomasticon of an ordinary native speaker of a language has not yet been the subject of a dictionary description, so the dictionary created by the linguists of the Tomsk linguistic school fills this lexical gap, establishing the tradition of recording different types of proper names functioning in the speech of a dialect speaker in a separate publication. The review considers the basic principles of constructing this dictionary. Following the tradition of the Complete Dictionary of the Dialectal Language Personality, the onomastic dictionary is built according to the same methodological principles: the focus on the fullest possible reflection of the language personality’s lexicon, the orientation to a multidimensional description of lexical units, the principle of objectification of the features of the native speaker’s language personality in the dictionary, and the principle of “soft” presentation of borderline phenomena with simultaneous referring of disputed or related cases to different classes. The review also deals with the illustrative material, which is of special value for readers, being a “three-dimensional encyclopedia” of life of the Russian village, its everyday routine and holidays. In the dictionary, there are also noteworthy statements, marked with a special sign, that contain manifestations of the speaker’s metalingual reflection in relation to proper names. In such examples the object of comprehension is the form, semantics or functioning of the proper name in one’s own or another’s speech: its euphony / cacophony, its unusualness, inconsistency with the official naming, the presence of variant designations, the preferential use of one or another form of name, the naming motive, the connotation of the onym, the frequency, compliance / non-compliance with the norms of usage, etc. Based on the description of this lexicographic publication, a conclusion is drawn on the prospects of creating similar dictionaries on the dialect material of other territories of Russia.
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