WORDS USED FOR DESCRIBING WOMEN’S APPEARANCE IN RUSSIAN FOLK DIALECTS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Description of the means of linguistic evaluation of a woman in the folk speech, such as emotional, moral, ethical and aesthetic characteristics and qualities, may be interesting from the point of view of studying a specific type of national worldview and mindset. The semantic and stylistic analysis of such lexemes helps synthesize a holistic image of a “woman” as manifested by the folk speech and poetry.