Lexical organization of the record in a discursive aspect (on the basis of records dated by 1918-1933)

The aim of the work is to reveal the quantitative characteristics of the lexical organization of the text of the record in the aspect of reflecting historical events that took place in Tomsk in the post-revolutionary period (1918-1933). Despite its significant role in providing of official communications, the documentary text has occupied attention of linguists since not so long ago. As part of traditional research directions, functional classification of texts has been carried out, general design parameters have been revealed, basic properties have been described. At the same time, texts show tendencies that are contrary to the properties described, which has prompted the emergence of new research projects within the framework of discursive and cognitive directions. In this connection, a special interest is the study of documentary discourse in the historical aspect, since works in this direction are few. Discourse analysis is accepted as the leading methodological approach in the work. The main method is automated content analysis, which allowed to reveal the quantitative aspect of the lexical organization of documents. The material of the analysis is an array of texts of records / extracts from records from the collections of documents of the State Archive of Tomsk Oblast (subseries "People and Power") from 1918 to 1933, which includes 126 documents. The total number of word forms in these documents is more than 40,000. The research revealed that the record, as a documentary genre, fully fulfills the "witness" function, reflecting the social context in which it is created. The analysis of quantitative parameters established that the array of records of meetings of various authorities of Tomsk Province dated by 1918-1933 meets the requirements for documentary discourse in general: (1) the most frequent are document markers in accordance with the requirement of factography: anthroponyms, toponyms and the designation of dates; (2) the texts correspond to the requirement of unification - the most frequent are lexical units denoting the type of document, situations, typical communicative actions, typical participants and locus. In other words, the texts under study refer to the sphere of institutional communication. However, the revealed parameters show the influence of the social context: (1) male names dominate in the texts, which indicates an obvious gender imbalance in the society of the period under study; (2) surnames that function in the texts of the records allow to identify socially and politically important figures relevant to the region; (3) the most frequent lexical units reflect the main events that are significant for the social and political life of the province; (4) estimation of the dynamics of the vocabulary of the records arranged by years allows to identify the relationship between political and social processes of national and regional nature; 5) lexical units have been revealed that mark the establishment of a new type of social relations and, ultimately, denote the boundaries of the time period for the development of documentary discourse as a whole.

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