Chelyabinsk Urban Vernacular Lexicon Peculiarities

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Doklady Bashkirskogo Universiteta. 2023. Volume 8. No. 2. pp. 133-138.

Authors

Kharchenko E. V.*
South Ural State University
76 Lenin prosp., 454080 Chelyabinsk, Russia
Pitina S. A.
Chelyabinsk State University
129 Br. Kashiriny st., 454001 Chelyabinsk, Russia

Abstract

The article systematizes Chelyabinsk urban lexicon peculiarities. The most frequently used type of forming vernacular is suffixation. Semantic changes include metaphorical transformations of words, distorted forms of literary words, precedent names. Words and word combinations with negative connotations are characteristic of Chelyabinsk vernacular speech.

Keywords

  • regional lexicon
  • urban lexicon
  • regionalism
  • vernacular
  • South Ural identity
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