Kunavin, Boris V , Lazarova, Irina A.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2020. IIS 37 (76).

Abstract:
The relevance of the problem under consideration in the general linguistic aspect is associated
with regional variation of the Russian language, and in the special linguistic plan with insufficient
knowledge of it in the territory of North Ossetia-Alania. Such study makes it possible to get acquainted
with the features of its functioning in a multicultural space, interaction with various areas of the
Ossetian language picture of the world, as well as identify regional cultural markers. The purpose of
the study is to study in the communicative space of North Ossetia-Alania the lexical and semantic
features of the regional version of the Russian language, due to lexical borrowings from the Ossetian
language, reflecting the impact of Ossetian culture on Russian regional culture. To achieve this goal,
the following methods were used: descriptive (collection of material, processing, interpretation and
generalization), including methods of comparison, typology of the analyzed material; sociolinguistic
(observation technique, including questioning, interviewing, experiment); linguoculturological,
involving the study of linguistic phenomena in close connection with the culture of native speakers.
The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that it investigated the Ossetian regionalisms that
are relevant, socially and culturally significant for the modern local Russian-speaking society, identified
areas of the linguistic picture of the world of native speakers of the Russian language that are
most affected by the Ossetian language. It is established that the functioning of Ossetian localisms
by native speakers of the Russian language is due to psychological, social, cultural interaction with
native speakers of the Ossetian language. The dynamics of the functioning of regionalisms depends
not only on their own linguistic «weight», but also on cultural significance. It is proved that the use
of Ossetian regionalisms by Russian-speaking speakers is not perceived by them as non-prestigious,
but is considered as a means of identifying them in the cultural space of their region, which is due
to both historical and sociocultural reasons. As a result of the work done, the following results were
obtained. The regional version of the Russian language in the territory of the North Ossetia-Alania
is associated with the borrowing process, which demonstrates a different degree of development and
thereby the sustainable and situational use of the word borrowed from the Ossetian language in the
Russian utterance. The lexical and semantic specificity of the regional version of the Russian language
on the territory of North Ossetia-Alania lies in the fact that it includes a certain number of
Ossetian regionalisms that fill the existing gaps mainly in the field of everyday communication. The
use of Ossetian regionalisms by native speakers of the Russian language is always motivated: regionalism
acts as a unit of special nominative, semantic, expressive content, functioning in a situation of
informal communication, when social control over speech is manifested to a lesser extent. It is these
qualities that ensure the sustainability of regional phenomena in the Russian language. Regionalisms
are heterogeneous in the lexical-grammatical and semantic-thematic aspects.

Keywords: regiolect, regionalism, cultural marker, regional subculture, linguistic picture of the world, multilingual society, localism, vocabulary

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