WAR AND WORK IN KUZBASS PEASANTRY REMINISCENCES: A SKETCH OF LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND
The submitted paper acts as a presentation of the second issue of ‘Kuzbass Peasantry Speaking’ – a collection of monologues devised by Siberian local countryside dwellers. The collection has recently been published (January, 2016) and includes the results of a fifty-year-long research aimed at recording and cameral processing of dialect speech. The recorded monologues reflect the specific local peculiarities of phonetics, lexis, and grammar, as well as the diverse complexity of Siberian dwellers’ being and living. A close attention is paid to the topics of war and work. The research is aimed at a) examination of predominant topical elements within this or that monologue; b) linguistic and cultural markers able to structure the collective image of an average Siberian countryside dweller. The main methods employed by the authors involve the linguistic personality depiction; historical and cultural commentary; the general scientific methods of continuous observation and factual description. Conclusion. The chief characteristic features of the book involve topical dominants, gender factor significance, emotive links, absence of direct evaluation, and hypertextuality. Significance. The monologues included into the present collection can serve as a source base for further pieces of research on Russian dialect studies [2; 6; 8] (e. g., dialect syntax and theory of dialect personality) or on regional studies in general.