VERBALIZATION OF THE CARDINAL POINTS IN THE RUSSIAN DIALECTS OF KRASNOYARSK TERRITORY (semiotic binary oppositions «East-West», «South-North»)

Abstract

The lexical system of dialects allows the reconstruction of the linguistic worldview. This study deals with some aspects of verbalized worldview of the residents of KrasnoyarskTerritory. KrasnoyarskTerritoryis one of the few regions of the country with incomplete lexicographic description. The identity of the Siberian culture and mentality is contained in the language. The linguistic data available in dictionaries of the Russian dialects of KrasnoyarskTerritorydemonstrate the material and spiritual culture of the Siberians, indicates a long-term relation of the Russian population of the region with the indigenous ethnic groups. The paper is devoted to the linguistic verbalization of the semiotic binary opposition «East-West» and «South-North» (based on the dialects sources). The author examines the ritual role of lexemes included in the opposition, analyzes the relations between the cardinal points and meteorological namings. The dialect lexical items that are semantically related to these oppositions revealKrasnoyarsk peasants’ particular understanding of the world and their own position in it. The territorially limited study of linguistic dialects reveals the facts of national culture, the interpenetration of local dialect vocabulary and the vocabulary of the Russian literary language, which entails the uniqueness of the operation of individual unit’s dialect. The results of this study can be used to analyze regional worldviews, in the study of dialect words semantics, during special courses and seminars on dialectology, linguistics, linguistic local history.

Keywords

• semiotic binary opposition, dialects of krasnoyarsk territory, category of space, sub-ethnic worldview