Dialect mini-dictionary of one linguistic person of the Voronezh Region

We center on the study of peculiarities of Russian folk patois in the 21st century, which is an important necessity due to the enormous influence on them by the literature language, the ongoing industrialization in society. We prove the necessity of studying the linguistic system of patois in the anthropocentric paradigm aspect. We make an attempt to present the dialect dictionary of one person in the ancient village of Verkhnyaya Toida, Anninsky District, Voronezh Region. We suggest vocabulary entries which reflect the villager’s lexicon in order to get the most complete picture of his speech portrait. The results of the analysis of the Dialect mini-dictionary of one linguistic person of the Voronezh Region, including 106 dialect lexemes that are functioning in the dialect carrier speech, represent knowledge of the social realm. We establish that the dialectal units in the mini-dictionary reflect a dialectal linguistic person, who demonstrates local peculiarities, reflecting the features of the southern Russian dialect of the Voronezh dialectal discourse. An attempt to create such mini-dictionary based on Voronezh patois suggests that the majority of words are also used in other Russian folk patois, but there are also those that we consider to be localisms or regionalisms. This fact proves the brilliance, expressiveness and originality of the Verkhnyaya Toida patois.

areal linguistics, Voronezh Region, dialect dictionary, linguistic person, speech portrait