Representation of the Concept "Shame" in Female Autobiographical Discourse (On the Material of Dialect Communication)

The article aims to describe the concept "shame" (styd) in female dialect autobiographical discourse. The source of the research is the Tomsk Dialect Corpus that includes textual materials of dialectological expeditions to the villages of the Middle Ob basin from 1947 to 2019. The informants are women aged 55 years and over. A concept is a unit of consciousness that is represented by means of language. The conceptual, figurative and axiological components of the concept "shame" are analyzed. The gender factor is considered as one of the parameters that can determine the specifics of ideas about shame. "Shame" is one of the key concepts of culture. Its specificity is explained by the complexity of the phenomenon of shame, its social and psychological nature, its connection with human socialization, its dependence on cultural and historical factors, and its representation by verbal and non-verbal means. The units that represent the concept are shame (styd) and its derivatives: stydoba (shame), stydovishche (shame), stydno (shamefully), stydit' (to shame), stydlivyy (shamefaced), etc.; and lexical units: pozor (disgrace), kleymo (stigma), sram/stram (shame), stramota (shame), styd-stram (shame), sovestit'sya (to be ashamed), pozorit'sya (to disgrace oneself), stramit' (to shame), krasnet' (to blush), etc. There are also contexts in which the situation of shame is presented, but there are no special denominations for this. The research has revealed that, in the peasant culture, shame is considered as embarrassment, awkwardness, and disgrace, which are closely related to the physical, bodily component of a person. The appearance of a woman, her physiological characteristics, her behavior, her relationship with men, her unwillingness to work and do her household chores are most often shamed. The concept "shame" is associated with the concepts "guilt", "man", "woman", "family", "work", "death", "life", "wealth", "clothing", etc. Shame is interpreted metaphorically as fire, something that covers, envelops a person; the intimate parts of the body are also called "shame" in the dialect culture. The transformation of ideas about shame is explicated using the comparative constructions "earlier . . . now" and "then . . . now". Representatives of the older generation compare themselves with the modern generation, and shame can be one of the criteria for this comparison. Shame is a value-based emotion, which can be used to determine the values that exist in society. The change in attitudes to shame is due to temporal and spatial changes: what was previously thought shameful may cease to be such in another era. The spaces of the city and the village develop their own norms: what is shameful for the villager is not necessarily shameful for the city dweller.

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