Social regulation of eating through the mirror of Russian dialectal vocabulary.
The article studies dialectal words and idioms reflecting the Russian national interpretation of eating as a socially significant phenomenon. There exist a great many nominations of a person as an eater in Russian national subdialects, as well as of meals making part of peasant community life. The lexical expressions of the person's behaviour evaluation at the dining table testify to the fact that eating is subject to regulation from the side of the community.