An Experience of a Lexicographical Representation of the Kuzbass Russian Subdialects in the Early 21st Century

The aim of the article is to represent the experience of a lexicographical representation of the Kuzbass Russian subdialects in the 21st century. The article describes the principles of the structure of two dictionaries: the Dictionary of the Kuzbass Russian Subdialects (Supplement) [12] and the Dictionary of the Craft and Trade Lexis of the Kuzbass Subdialects [13]. The article examines approaches to the selection of the regional lexical and phraseological material and to its lexicographical representation. The supplement to Dictionary of the Kuzbass Russian Subdialects is a dialect dictionary of a differential type because it reflects the dialect lexis and phraseology of the old residents' subdialects of Kemerovo Oblast. The dictionary includes words and phraseological units representing properly dialect lexis, semantic dialect variants of Russian lexical units, ethnographic lexis, phonemic, accentual, word-formation, grammatical dialect variants of Russian lexical units, and dialect phraseological units; in total, it includes 2 400 words and phraseological units of the traditional subdialects of the old residents of Kemerovo Oblast. The Dictionary of the Craft and Trade Lexis of the Kuzbass Subdialects represents the craft and trade lexis and phraseology not only of the traditional old residents' subdi-alects but also of the later settlers speaking the new settlers' subdialects. The dictionary contains lexis and idioms of a terminological nature fixed on the territory of Kemerovo Oblast from the 1960s to the 2000s; due to them, it is possible to estimate the specificity of the material culture (the main trades and crafts of Kemerovo Oblast: cedar trade, hunting, fishing, carpentry, home textile production, haymaking, hay harvest, etc.) and the spiritual culture of Russian people, which is reflected in the history of the Russian language. The description of the content and structure of a dictionary entry pays attention to the format of a headword (an idiom), semantic and grammatical description of words, use of the illustrative material and geographical labels, and use of special labels characterizing the sublanguage of the local crafts and trades in the Dictionary of the Craft and Trade Lexis of the Kuzbass Subdialects. Dictionaries represented in the article reflect results of the dialect lexicography development at the Russian Language Department of Novokuznetsk State Pedagogical Institute (later Kuzbass State Pedagogical Academy) in the 20th and the early 21st centuries. Such dialectological dictionaries preserve highly valuable cultural information.

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