Nominations of nature sounds in the idiolect of the folk speech culture representative

The article describes a fragment of the idiolect of a folk speech culture representative - nominations of nature sounds. In the studied material lexemes naming sounds of wild and domestic animals and natural elements are presented. Nominations of plant sounds are not fixed in the idiolect. Among the nominations of domestic animal sounds, lexemes which mean 'sound of a cat' are the most numerous group. A little fewer lexemes characterizes the sounds of a dog. Nominations of mouse sounds, as well sounds of hens, geese, cows, pigs and other domestic animals, are presented. Nominations of noisy sounds of mice are numerous; many of them are dialectal units. Nominations of wild animal sounds are a small group despite the fact that they present sounds of different types of animals (insects, birds and animals). The mention of the sounds of wild birds (cuckoo, magpie) is associated with superstitious beliefs. The sounds of inanimate nature (thunder, wind, water) are also rarely mentioned. The dialect speaker often interprets animal sounds as a signal. For example, cat's meowing is treated as a request for food. The sounds of nature, moreover, can be attributed a certain symbolic value in accordance with the folk tradition. There are folk signs associated with the sounds of the cuckoo, magpie, chicken, mice, and thunder in the studied idiolect. The mention of animal sounds has an extremely negative assessment on the emotional level. This is due to the fact that animals are evaluated by the dialect language personality by the pragmatic criterion, the sound is not important from this point of view. With the exception of the nomination of the dog barking, which has a practical value and, due to this, gets a positive rational assessment. Mentions of the sounds of inanimate nature are usually emotionally neutral, and this confirms their overall low value. There are numerous dialect words among the nominations of nature sounds, and this is explained by the relevance of this sphere in the peasant life. At the same time, the high frequency of some tokens on the background of the rarity of others leads to the conclusion that for the informant the most valuable natural sphere is "domestic animals". Specifics of nature sound nominations consists, first, in the extensive use of onomatopoeia, and, second, in using lexemes that can characterize man for naming sounds of animals. These observations correlate with the findings about such peculiarities of the informant's outlook as imaginative and undifferentiated, holistic perception of the world.

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