THE IMAGE OF A CHILD IN THE DIALECT PICTURE OF THE WORLD

Abstract

The article is based on ideas of cognitive word formation and linguoculturology and describes the image of a child in the linguistic worldview of dialect speakers. The author’s attention is focused on solving a problem of variable representation of a culturally significant fragment of the linguistic worldview associated with children, based on the material of Russian folk dialects. The objective of the work is to describe the image of a child through the analysis of the propositional-semantic organization of derivative names that function both at the macro level of Russian folk dialects and at the level of dialect zones. Based on the material of two groups of derived vocabulary denoting children and the realities of their childhood, the system of word-formational-propositional and lexical-word-formational meanings has been identified through an appeal to its word-formational semantics. The perspectives of understanding a child have been determined, and the set of culturally significant situations in which a child participates in a dialectal linguistic culture has been specified. In the course of the typological analysis, correlative and partially correlative types of word-formational semantics of derived vocabulary have been identified. Features of the implementation of the image of a child in the dialectal zones of the Russian language have been shown.