No 1 (2022)

In a situation of global cultural leveling and widespread ethnic conflicts, problems which are related to the formation and preservation of national identity of both representatives of the people and the individual arise. This problem is especially relevant in the linguoculturological field of humanitarian research. Meanwhile, the name of the people, nationality is one of the options for the ethnicity of a person. Ethnonyms contain a “genetic code” that allows us to designate defining national features, to distinguish “us” from “them”. The ethnonym itself is highly informative, as it makes it possible to study the ways of belonging to a particular ethnic community, its interaction with the culture and language of the progenitor people, cultural contacts with other peoples, indicates occupation, the confessional affiliation of the representatives of community. The purpose of the article is to analyze the formation, functioning and word-formation potential of the ethnonyms Bukharians, Sarts, which call the ethno-social group of immigrants from Central Asia who moved to Siberia at the end of the 14th–18th centuries and took an active part in the development of this large and rich in opportunities territory. Having gone through a difficult path of historical development, the Siberian Bukharians eventually assimilated with the local peoples, making a significant contribution to the formation of the culture of the Turkic population of Siberia and becoming a significant ethnic component in the structure of the ethnic group of the Siberian Tatars. The material for the study was the monuments of business writing of the 19th — early 20th centuries, including birth records, census documents, official correspondence, petitions, documents on taxes and fees, records on legal procedures, decrees, protocols, reports, etc. which reflected the facts of the economic, political and cultural development of the community of Siberian Bukharians. The sources are both official documents that were used in the office work of the capital's ministries and departments, regional orders and departments, as well as handwritten notes made at mosques in the Old Tatar language in Arabic script. As illustrative material, the records of the authors' field expeditions to rural settlements (2014–2021) are presented.The analysis of the content side of the documents, on the one hand, allows us to trace the ways of forming the self-identity of a separate ethnic community, on the other hand, to see the regional specifics and determine the linguistic potential of self-name terms. Ethnonyms become the basis for the emergence of new derivatives: nicknames, names, patronymics, surnames, toponyms.For the analysis of the onomasticon presented in the article, a descriptive method with its main techniques, that include observation, generalization and classification of the material, was used. For semantic reconstruction, the method of etymological analysis was used, taking into account phonetic and word-formation aspects. The analysis of the formation and development of ethnonyms in the region seems relevant, since new anthroponymic data are introduced into scientific circulation.The study of ethnonyms that name the ethno-social group of Siberian Bukharians makes it possible to give a more complete historical and cultural description of one of the important ethnic communities in the region and expand scientific understanding of the culture and history of Western Siberia as a whole.

This paper considers the information structure in the Upper Lozva dialect of the Mansi language in correspondence to the concept of focus. After a brief presentation of the ULM and its prosody intonational patterns are described within a syllable, words of different syllable structure, on the material of isolated sentences and sentences in discourse. Audio material recorded by the author were analyzed in PRAAT. F0 movement was selected as an acoustic feature of prosodic marking of the informational structure. A comparison is made between neutral and logically stressed sentences. Neutral intonation is characterized by a gradual increase of pitch to the predicative core followed by decline of pitch. Topic is marked by an even tone on the stressed syllable. Rhema is marked by a significant increase of pitch within a stressed syllable. The concept of “focus” is substantiated on the basis of its description in the literature on the topic. Next, the analysis of the marked chunks is performed. The intonational marking of a wide and narrow focus is investigated. Argumental and predicate foci are distinguished; a hypothesis is proposed about the absence of prosodic marking of sentential focus. The description of focus structures with additive particles and under negation is provided.

The main purpose of the article is to uncover and analyze language ideologies underpinning multilingual practices of non-Russian first-generation migrants from the former Soviet Union from a translanguaging perspective. The article uses data collected by the authors during a 3-month ethnographically-oriented field study in Western European countries (in-depth semi-structured interviews and participant observation) supplemented by sociolinguistic analysis of informal online communication. It was found that fluid, translingual practices are generally not characteristic for the majority of well-educated post-Soviet migrants, despite the presence of ethnic languages (L1), Russian (L2) and foreign languages (L3-n) in their linguistic repertoire. Instead, we observe predominantly Russian normative speech, lack of desire to cross language boundaries and create hybrid linguistic forms, at least between L1 and L2. The authors see the reasons for this in the Soviet language policy, which products the immigrants from the USSR are “exporting” the relationship between Russian and ethnic languages formed in their home country. The article examines some of the language ideologies and habits that serve as a barrier to translanguaging, namely the ideology of language purism and (Russian) monolingualism, as well as adherence to the “standard language culture”. The level of education is also associated with “pure” speaking in Russian — the more prestigious and more familiar language in which the respondents have the greatest linguistic competence. In general, the authors come to the conclusion that the speech behavior of this polyethnic and multilingual group of migrants described in the article is a consequence of a habitus — deeply hidden, unconscious, “imprinted” linguistic and cultural habits inherited from the Soviet experience and reproduced in life practices abroad.

The purpose of the article is to determine the function of the horse and horse harness in the representations and rituals of the Khakas associated with the children’s cycle. The chronological framework of the work covers the late XIX — mid XX centuries . The choice of such time limits is determined by the state of the source base on the research topic. Ethnographic and folklore materials collected by both pre-revolutionary and modern researchers: I. G. Gmelin, N. F. Katanov, V. Ya. Butanaev, N. S. Teneshev, etc. served as a source base. Folklore materials — excerpts from heroic tales (alyptyg nymakhtar) used in this work presented for the first time in the author's translation in Russian. In the article under consideration, archival ethnographic materials on the indicated problems are also introduced into scientific circulation. Leading in the research is the principle of historicism, when any cultural phenomenon is considered in development and taking into account a specific situation. The research methodology is based on historical and ethnographic methods: remnants (relic) and semantic analysis.As a result of the analysis, the following conclusions can be drawn: 1) in the traditional culture of the Khakass, the horse and its image occupied an important place. This pet was included in the ritual associated with the children's cycle; 2) In the religious and mythological consciousness of the people, the image of a horse was steadily associated with the idea of vitality and fertility; 3) Not only the image of this ungulate and some parts of its body were endowed with magical protective properties; 4) The sacralization of the horse contributed to the fact that its image in its various manifestations was widely represented in the rituals associated with prenatal, birth and postnatal childhood cycles. An important place in this process was given to individual elements of horse equipment; 5) The horse performed a significant function in the socialization of the child, including in such stages as naming and mastering riding skills.

The study is carried out a comparative analysis of the memorial and funeral rites of the Indians of the Na-Dene (Navajo) group and the Yenisei (Kets). The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of ethnographic material in order to identify any cultural similarities and parallels in the memorial and funeral rites of the Navajo Indians and Kets and to collect data that would allow to analyze the nature of these ties themselves afterwards. As a result, the author of the article reached the conclusions that among the characteristics in the funeral ritual of the Kets and Navajo Indians there are both principal (the burials in a warehouse and on a tree, an explanation of human mortality and the orientation of the deceased in an eastern direction) and insignificant similarities among the characteristics in the funeral rituals of the Kets and Navajo Indians. There are cultural ties in memorial and funeral rites that allow (with great caution) to evaluate the existing similarities as cultural and genetic, which may become an additional argument in favor of the theory of the Na-Dene Indians’ and the Yenisei’s kinship.

The article deals with the local musical and song tradition of Udmurtsof Chainsky district of Tomsk region that belong to the Siberian group of Udmurts. The overwhelming majority of Udmurts migrated therefrom Sharkansky district. They moved to Siberia at the beginning of the 20th century and preserved their identity in a non-ethnic environment for a long time. Nevertheless, by the beginning of the 21st century their song tradition began to fade under the influence of various factors. The purpose of the article is to analyze different song genres of Udmurt people from Tomsk region in their historical dynamics (expeditions of 1974, 2001, 2003, 2006).The main audiocollection of musical tradition ofthe Siberian Udmurts is stored in the Scientific Archive of the Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Udmurt Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was gathered during expeditions of 1974 and 2006. The author of the article discovered new material — video recording of song tradition of examined territory. It allowed using more song samples.The methodology of the work is dictated by its task. The author uses a philological approach, which includes a plot-thematic analysis of the poetic text. Similar genres of the indigenous tradition were involved to identify the overall picture of the song genre system of the Siberian Udmurts.The earliest expedition found the largest number of recorded songs — there were 7 ritual (wedding, recruiting) and 17 non-ritual songs (lyrical and one comic song in Russian). The other expeditions recorded one sample of a wedding tune (2001 and 2006) and a guest song of late formation (2001, 2003, and 2006) that was not recorded before. Later trips also revealed a smaller number of non-ritual songs (3 songs in 2003 and 5 songs in 2006). However, they completely coincide with the repertoire of the earliest expedition. A large number of lyrical songs recorded during the first trip can be explained by the feelings of people: state of anguish and loss of their homeland, loss of parents and/or children (many people could not endure the way to Siberia).The analysis of the lyrics of both traditions (migrated “Chainsky” and native “Sharkan”) allowed us to identify the main motives: the text of Chainsky version of s'uan gur (the wedding chant of the groom's relatives) reflects older images associated with a natural, uncultured locus. Seeing off chants (kelis' gur / s'uan kyrdzhan) in Sharkan versions are performed with the traditional motive of separation, while in Chainsky songs the motive of involuntary marriage is emphasized. In the texts of recruiting tunes and lyrical songs of Chainsky tradition the emotional component is strengthened, that is probably directly related with the state of longing for native motherland.