Lexical Originality Of Regional Orthodox Parish Chronicles

Abstract

The lexical level of two parochial chronicles of the Southern Urals of the 19th century is analyzed in the article. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the monuments were created during the period of renewal of the chronicle tradition. The novelty of the work lies in the description of the lexical diversity of two texts of the same genre. The main attention is paid to the peculiarities of lexico-thematic groups: denotation, choice of lexeme, lexical relations between the components of the group. It has been proved that it is the lexical level that most clearly translates the specifics of the picture of the world of the Southern Urals inhabitants against the background of the chronicles of other provinces. It is concluded that six groups are distinguished in the vocabulary of church chronicles as a reflection of significant areas of the life of parishioners: religious life, work, life, education, the world around, social relations. It is shown that the scribe’s speech is not oversaturated with heterogeneous information, therefore the choice of topics and words plays an important role in the research reading of the document. It is noted that the information required by the stencil of the document is transmitted by chronicles using different lexemes. A comparative analysis of the lexemes of chronicles shows that the actual centralization of topics in the chronicles does not focus on religion, although religion is a moral and ethical guide for the layman of that time.

Keywords

• history of the russian language
• southern urals
• parish chronicles
• lexical-thematic groups