Traits of the Slavic Identity in the Self-Identification of a Siberian Native

The article contains the material demonstrating results of the identification and self-identification processes in different discourse practices. As the basic source, the author uses the speech evidence of Siberian long-term residents on understanding their belonging to the Slavic ethnos (the Russian one) and at the same time to a special subethnic Siberian group outlined against new occupants and natives of the Turkic and Finno-Ugric origin. The actualization of the lexeme sibiryak(a Siberian') and single-rooted lexemes as well as its absolute synonyms (chaldon, chaldonka) naming a Russian Siberian old-timer has been analyzed. The results of the analysis have been compared with the data from the Russian National Corpus; they demonstrate functioning of these lexemes in literary and publicistic texts. The comparative analysis has shown that understanding the Siberian identity happens according to different reasons and features. These features include geographical, ethnographic, anthropological, linguistic, axiological, mental and psychological ones. The actualization of the features is different in different discourse types. In the dialectal discourse toponymical, ethnocultural and linguistic aspects of the lexeme semantics are most significant. In literary and publicistic literature axiological, mental and psychological components are expressed.

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