Child and childhood in Siberian dialects (linguoculturogical portrait)

This paper is devoted to one of the ways of providing descriptions of cultural information which a language code contains. There is a problem of national identification in the focus of modern humanities researches. An appeal to the sources reflecting ethnic self-consciousness is a cause for this fact. We can regard folk dialects representing a picture of the world of a national culture bearer as the source. The picture of the world embodied in dialect vocabulary can be analyzed only as the result of interdisciplinary synthesis. That is why it is the object of research of related humanities and one of them is linguoculturology. The description of cultural meanings included in semantics of words is a task of linguoculturogical portrait which is understood as a research construction built on the analysis of the facts of a language which are interpreted from the point of view of culture. The description of a cultural component of the semantics of a dialect word is made with the help of a linguoculturogical commentary method which is founded on the result of context analysis and definition analysis. However, the cultural meanings a word contains can be immeasurable if to speak about semantics, that is why their interpretation must be kept within the limits. Linguocultutogical portraying is specified with a series of principles which appear to be the mechanism of systematization and structuring of cultural information which resulted from the analysis. First of all, there is a choice of an object to portray which is a prism for a researcher to look on culture through. As for this research the conception of a child is the object. Certain moments of children's life get into the zone of reflection of everyday language of dialect speakers, this is the evidence of their importance. Derived material can be divided into semantic fields, or background parameters, by their subjects. With the help of language facts it is possible to reconstruct a model in every background parameter. Comparison with a model is a way to estimate social, cultural, and other facts of vital activity. Thereby, linguoculturogical portrait specifies model parameters comparing a described object with a perfect model, with a conception of ''right'', ''proper''. In addition an object's linguoculturogical portrait is supplemented with value components. Linguoculturogical aspect of lexical units research supposes analysis of culture demonstrations in a language sign. The cultural component of the word's meaning reflects a conception of a child in folk culture. The method of linguoculturogical commentary allows to describe cultural semantics of lexical units and to draw a conclusion about Russian folk perception of a child. The genre of linguoculturogical portrait is a convenient way of structuring cultural information we get.

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