ENDEMIC VOCABULARY IN THE WORKS OF RUSSIAN-SPEAKING DAGESTAN WRITERS

Abstract

The article presents a semantic and linguocultural analysis of endemic vocabulary from the Russian-language works of Dagestan writers. Stable verbal complexes and ritual formulas in the Dagestan languages related to endemic vocabulary have been identified, and their lexical-semantic and ethnocultural analysis is presented. The work also contains a pragmatic functional analysis of Dagestan endemic vocabulary and identifies sources of their origin. The researcher substantiates legitimacy of using endemic vocabulary to convey the specifics of Dagestan ethnic culture and way of life. Various emotional interjections of the Dagestan languages, used as vocatives, are not only often found in Russian-language texts of literary works, but are also widely used in the Russian speech of bilingual and multilingual Dagestan youth.