THE SINGING OF A NIGHTINGALE IN THE DIALECT LANGUAGE PICTURE OF THE WORLD (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE LEXICAL ATLAS OF RUSSIAN FOLK DIALECTS)
The article is aimed to define the folk concept of a nightingale’s singing, which is conveyed in the dialect verbs of sounding. The semantics of verbs denoting the singing of a nightingale and the contexts of the use of these words in speech are given in the cognitive interpretation. The source of the research material is the index of the Lexical Atlas of Russian Folk Dialects. The author comes to the conclusion that the language consciousness of dialect speakers reflects the variety of a nightingale’s vocalizations and stable chronotope of its singing (early in the morning, at night or in the evening; in the forest or in the grove), as well as its positive connotation. These perceptions are mainly based on the behavior peculiarities of a nightingale in nature. Traditional mythological ideas about nightingales are predominantly reflected in the evaluation of a nightingale’s singing and its comparison with the voice of a lark