Językowo-kulturowy obraz przestrzeni miejskiej Moskwy na przełomie XIX i XX wieku (na bazie słownika W. Jelistratowa)
The Linguistic and Cultural Image of the Urban Space of Moscow in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (on the Basis of V. Elistratov’s Dictionary)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to reconstruct the linguistic and cultural image of Moscowat the turn of the twentieth century using the paradigm of cultural linguistics. This paradigm was selected as the theoretical framework of the study considering that it practically has not been applied in Russian linguistics. The article shows that the intricate image of the urban space is created by means of cultural elements (the coat of arms, the flag, the bugle call, architecture) and, most of all, linguistic elements whose major exponent is a given urban dialect. It is a wide-ranging construct whose lexis, apart from native elements, also includes a large number of foreign components and proprial (official and unofficial) vocabulary. The conglomerate of these elements can be regarded as a specific language of the urban space.

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