Worldview of the language personality in the traditional Russian folk-speech culture

Worldview is seen as a set of attitudes of society and its individuals which determines reality perception patterns. Reconstruction of mental traits of a dialect speaker was based on the analysis of an idiolexicon, spontaneous texts and metatexts of a particular representative of the Siberian old-timer dialect. The vocabulary and the system of figurative means (metaphors, comparisons, phraseologisms) shows the predominance of units connected with the sphere "person", which indicates the anthropocentric view of the world in the folk-speech culture. Its special case is corporeality manifested in the broad use of figurative units with a somatic component. A broad lexical-semantic field of sensory perception and a large group of figurative elements the semantics of which includes perceptual basis prove the priority of personal experience which relies on sensory perception in the knowledge of reality. In the texts of folk-speech culture the truth is only something seen, heard, experienced. Knowledge logically derived from certain assumptions is questioned as unsubstantiated and is accompanied by markers of presumption. Concreteness of reality perception of the dialect speaker is reflected in the asymmetry of concrete and abstract vocabulary, names of physical and psychological characteristics of the person, the prevalence of comparisons of something specific with the specific. The texts present the common themes of morality, politics, history, language through descriptions of the life and deeds of persons of the inner circle, through comments to certain words. The narrative abounds in details: names of real people, reference to their speech, indications of time and space, quantity parameters, etc. The world is perceived through images, which is proved by the abundant lexical-phraseological units, metaphors, hyperboles based on visual or auditory images, the frequency of comparatives reflecting the proposition view of the situation through a number of compared features. The application of reciprocal models with the transfer of human properties on the rest of the world and vice versa, and the use of the same images for the living and the nonliving, human and natural phenomena shows traces of the archaic worldview, in which all aspects of the macrocosm are perceived in their indissoluble unity. On the textual level it is typical to represent a situation by sound and visual images (the story from different persons' view, imitation of speakers' pronunciation, gestures and facial expressions, sounds of living beings and objects), in metatexts it is reproduction of typical sentences with the word. The multiplicity of expressive emotional units with a wide range of connotative meanings, speech genres containing evaluation, and metatexts which assess compliance with the norms of speech proves the evaluative character of the dialect worldview with prevalence of the emotional type of evaluation. The identified features of the Siberian peasant's worldview correlate with the data of dialect dictionaries, corpora of texts of different regions and observations of dialectologists, which allows them to be considered as typological for the dialectal language personality.

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