Old-believer vocabulary according to historical data of Tambov eparchy
The article examines the terminology of the old-believer confession of Orthodoxy. The language of the old believers is characterised by archaic functionality, lexical diversity, metaphors, a specific set of key symbols. Symbolic religious imagery is typical for the terminology representing attitude of different confessions to each other, which is revealed in the nominations separating the representatives of “their” religious group from the “alien” (self names and other names). The basis of the regional observations is lexical material, representing the old believers and, partly, the non-Orthodox confessions according to historical documents of Tambov province with the involvement of encyclopedic and dialect dictionaries of the Russian language and authentic expedition data.