Areal Studies Potential of the Don Cossack Culture and Dialect

Authors

  • Evgeniya V. Brysina Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University, Moscow, GSP-1, Leninskie Gory, 1, Volgograd, V. I. Lenin Ave., 27
  • Vasilii I. Suprun Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University, Moscow, GSP-1, Leninskie Gory, 1, Volgograd, V. I. Lenin Ave., 27

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24412/1811-1629-2021-3-4-13

Abstract

Any living language retains its vitality as long as it exists as a dialect continuum. Modern Russian dialects, despite the constant processes of development and transformation of their units and phenomena, their interaction with each other and with the literary form of the language, do not turn into disappearing historical relics, but remain an actively functioning language system that reveals its originality, distinctive character and self-development ability. Many Russian scholars (V. M. Alpatov, T. I. Vendina, A. S. Gerd, V. E. Goldin, O. Yu. Kryuchkova, R. I. Kudryashova, L. M. Orlov, A. M. Peshkovskiy, A. P. Sdobnova, S. M. Tolstaya, N.  I. Tolstoy, etc.) consider dialects as a special type of speech culture and specify the peculiarity of dialect speakers’ worldview forms, their specific approach to cognition and categorization of the surrounding reality. Th e special conditions of the formation and development of the Don Cossacks as a separate military and social stratum contributed to the emergence of a unique Russian sub-ethnic group. All the diffi culties of military life, the unique structure of the Cossack society with its “Cossack circle” as the highest selfgoverning body, the peculiarities of the organization of everyday life, have been refl ected in the Cossack culture and language, accumulating all the details of historical changes in Don Cossacks’ life. Ethnolinguoculturological analysis of dialect words and phrasemes suggests that dialect speakers, while creating their own unique regional dialect in the process of their semiotic activity, reflected in it, both consciously and unconsciously, the features of their worldview and world knowledge, which ultimately made many dialect words and phrasemes culturally marked units of the idiom. Th e analyzed material convincingly proves the original idea of the high cultural value of dialect words and phrases, which gives a possibility to use these language units as a rich source of area studies information.

Keywords:

Don Cossacks, ethnic subdivision, dialect, customs, traditions, social isolation, paramilitary culture, vocabulary, phraseology

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Published

2021-09-30

How to Cite

Brysina, E. V., & Suprun, V. I. (2021). Areal Studies Potential of the Don Cossack Culture and Dialect. The World of Russian Word, (3), 4–13. https://doi.org/10.24412/1811-1629-2021-3-4-13

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No. 3 (2021)

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Linguistics

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