Conception of The Idiolect Paroemiae Dictionary of a Siberian Old Resident

In Tomsk Linguistic School a complex multi-parameter study of the speakers of the traditionalSiberian dialect has been carried out. Within the scope of this project a set of dictionaries of the dialectlanguage personality has been compiled. One of the dictionaries includes the most typical precedentialtexts of the folk speech culture representative - proverbs and sayings. In the discourse of theexamined informant (V.P. Vershinina, born in 1909, Tomsk region) more than 300 of them have beenregistered. The records of the spontaneous speech with the scope of more than 10000 pages under thenatural conditions of communication became the sources of the Dictionary.In the Idiolect Paroemiae Dictionary precedential texts are classified according to formal andcontent features.In the first part of the dictionary they are organized in an alphabetical order, the most significantitem being put the first. Each paroemia represents a separate dictionary entry, which includes: a precedentialtext with optional and variation elements, its connotative characteristics and other marks,interpretation of the meaning and/or comments to the situation of use, illustrations and reference notes(the number of usages, thematic group or groups the paroemia is referred to in the second part of thedictionary, comparative results with other lexicographic resources).The thematic classification of the paroemiae is presented in the second reference part of the dictionary.Large fields are divided into subgroups. Some of the paroemiae can be found simultaneouslyin different fields.The dictionary is considered to be the informative source for research of the Russian languageparoemiae stock. It can be used as an additional material to compile the already existing dictionariesof proverbs and sayings. It presents the material for further investigation of theoretical problems ofparoemiology and contains abundant information about the language personality of a traditional Russianpeasant culture representative. The paroemiae reveal the features of the old-resident dialect in theMiddle Ob region. The dictionary helps to estimate the scope of the personal proverb stock and theproportions of each type of paroemiae, the character of the variability of sound frame or meanings ofthe sayings in the speech of the person, their connotative peculiarities. The sayings and proverbs registeredin the dictionary enable to reconstruct the linguistic consciousness, the linguistic picture of theworld, mentality and systems of values important for a folk speech culture representative. The dictionaryhelps to define both the typical features of the traditional peasant culture and individual speechpeculiarities of the person. Hereafter, it is possible to use the Idiolect Paroemiae Dictionary for differentcomparative researches.

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