Substandard elements in dictionaries of standard language

This paper deals with non-standard (substandard) linguistic units in Russian speech and their description in existing dictionaries of standard Russian, e. g. the word tselka ‘hymen; virgin (girl)’ and such words as bliad’, blia and blin in their interjectional and parenthetical use. It makes use of...

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Main Author: A. D. Shmelev
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Published: Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. RANEPA 2025-03-01
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description This paper deals with non-standard (substandard) linguistic units in Russian speech and their description in existing dictionaries of standard Russian, e. g. the word tselka ‘hymen; virgin (girl)’ and such words as bliad’, blia and blin in their interjectional and parenthetical use. It makes use of corpus data (in particular, data from the Russian National Corpus) and shows that their lexicographic descriptions often do not account for their use in speech. The paper makes special reference to lexical units that have both standard and non-standard meanings. In particular, it discusses the meaning and usage of the Russian verbs dat’ / davat’, konchit’ / konchat’, trakhnut’ / trakhat’, and trakhnut’sia / trakhat’sia. Non-standard meanings of these units have only recently received lexicographic descriptions. All these words deserve a thorough semantic and syntactic analysis (in particular, their government patterns should be carefully studied for each particular lexical meaning). The relation between standard and non-standard readings is idiosyncratic in each case and also should be taken into account. The paper aims to show that the descriptions of the words under consideration (not only descriptions of their nonstandard meanings but descriptions of their standard meanings as well) in existing dictionaries often require revision. It outlines ways of improving their lexicographic descriptions.
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spelling doaj-art-19ed7f28c67e4a508aa98fa3cf7650572025-08-20T03:27:41ZengRussian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. RANEPAШаги2412-94102782-17652025-03-0111127028710.22394/2412-9410-2025-11-1-270-287240Substandard elements in dictionaries of standard languageA. D. Shmelev0Институт русского языка им. В. В. Виноградова РАНThis paper deals with non-standard (substandard) linguistic units in Russian speech and their description in existing dictionaries of standard Russian, e. g. the word tselka ‘hymen; virgin (girl)’ and such words as bliad’, blia and blin in their interjectional and parenthetical use. It makes use of corpus data (in particular, data from the Russian National Corpus) and shows that their lexicographic descriptions often do not account for their use in speech. The paper makes special reference to lexical units that have both standard and non-standard meanings. In particular, it discusses the meaning and usage of the Russian verbs dat’ / davat’, konchit’ / konchat’, trakhnut’ / trakhat’, and trakhnut’sia / trakhat’sia. Non-standard meanings of these units have only recently received lexicographic descriptions. All these words deserve a thorough semantic and syntactic analysis (in particular, their government patterns should be carefully studied for each particular lexical meaning). The relation between standard and non-standard readings is idiosyncratic in each case and also should be taken into account. The paper aims to show that the descriptions of the words under consideration (not only descriptions of their nonstandard meanings but descriptions of their standard meanings as well) in existing dictionaries often require revision. It outlines ways of improving their lexicographic descriptions.https://steps.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/251lexicographysemanticsstylisticslinguistic standardsubstandardpolysemy
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Substandard elements in dictionaries of standard language
Шаги
lexicography
semantics
stylistics
linguistic standard
substandard
polysemy
title Substandard elements in dictionaries of standard language
title_full Substandard elements in dictionaries of standard language
title_fullStr Substandard elements in dictionaries of standard language
title_full_unstemmed Substandard elements in dictionaries of standard language
title_short Substandard elements in dictionaries of standard language
title_sort substandard elements in dictionaries of standard language
topic lexicography
semantics
stylistics
linguistic standard
substandard
polysemy
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