ON REGION-SPECIFIC VOCABULARY: EVIDENCE FROM THE SURVEY OF SPEAKERS OF STANDARD RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN TOMSK
The article deals with the issues of regional variations in modern Russian language. The goal of the article is to identify and to describe the regional specificity of the speech at the lexical level of Russian standard language speakers in Tomsk. The target of the research within this article is region-specific lexical items functioning in the speech of Tomsk residents. The main way of obtaining research data was a sociolinguistic survey, the results of which demonstrate complicated picture of modern Russian language functioning and allow us to define a range of problem zones in the issues connected with its regional variations.