Some Aspects of the Old Believers’ Linguistic Identity Cover Image

Некоторые особенности языковой личности старообрядца
Some Aspects of the Old Believers’ Linguistic Identity

Author(s): Anna Tokarewicz
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Old Believers; Old Believers’ dialects; linguistic identity; communicative identity

Summary/Abstract: The article provides description of the Old Believers’ linguistic identity. We have chosena person – a member of the Masurian Old Believers’ bespopovtsy community from Galkovo.In a study of verbal-semantic level of linguistic identity we found lexical dialects, whichare typical for Masurian Old Believers, but we also noticed the genre aspect of her speech,motivational parameter and sphere of values which is one of the aspects of an Old Believers’linguistic identity.

  • Issue Year: 1/2013
  • Issue No: XV
  • Page Range: 217-225
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian