Western Slavic Dialects in Omsk Irtysh Region: Interference Phenomenon in Czech Siberian Dialect
The history of the Czechs in the Middle Irtysh region is closely related to the history of P.A. Stolypin’s reforms of the late 19th – early 20th century. The evidence provided by the language conscious representations has allowed identifying the migration paths of the Czechs, as well as the places w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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Kazan Federal University
2016-10-01
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| Series: | Učënye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta: Seriâ Gumanitarnye Nauki |
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| Online Access: | https://kpfu.ru/portal/docs/F694351501/158_5_gum_6.pdf |
| Summary: | The history of the Czechs in the Middle Irtysh region is closely related to the history of P.A. Stolypin’s reforms of the late 19th – early 20th century. The evidence provided by the language conscious representations has allowed identifying the migration paths of the Czechs, as well as the places where they “exited” the European part of Russia and Europe. The paper traces the formation of the Czech dialect and its development in Siberia. It also underpins the thesis concerning the specific role played by interdialect and inter-linguistic interference in forming the sprachraum of the polyethnic region. The connection of interference and bilingualism has been demonstrated by the example of the development of the Czech dialect in the Middle Irtysh region. The paper also considers theoretical foundations of the research: different approaches to the problem of interference in linguistics, viewpoints on the connection of interference and bilingualism, the author’s point of view has been presented adequately. Based on the material collected by the author, it has been demonstrated that interference appears at all levels of the language system, being especially explicit in lexis. Lexis represents the “power” of the Russian language and of Siberian old-settlers’ dialects, which is reflected in direct lexical borrowings from the surrounding dialects and in adaptation (phonetic, grammatical, derivational, and semantic) of the Czech lexicon seen as particularly important. Interference does not go unnoticed by the ethnic Czechs themselves, which has been proved by the metatext utterances about their mother tongue and its speakers in the contemporary linguistic situation. The ethnic self-definition of the Czech is related to the knowledge of their native Czech dialect: the speakers of the Middle Irtysh dialect perceive the Czechs who do not speak their native language as Russian rather than Czech. The changes that have taken place in the speech of the Siberian Czechs are determined by both linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Analysis of Siberian Czechs’ speech is a part of a broad research devoted to specifics of the language situation in the contemporary polyethnic region. The results of the research have provided a source and an empirical base for a new lexicographic project by Omsk dialectologists, aimed at demonstrating the worldview of contemporary villagers of a single Russian region. |
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| ISSN: | 2541-7738 2500-2171 |