ARTISTIC WORKS OF WRITERS FROM PENZA REGION AS A SOURCE OF DIALECT INFORMATION

The article considers the artistic works of writers, natives of the Penza region in order to find dialect vocabulary. Dialects, microtoponyms, anthroponyms learned from those works can serve as an additional material for the preparation of regional dictionaries. Use of dialectisms in works of art has always aroused great interest. Researchers give attention to the appropriateness of their use, understandability-obscurity, the frequency of use, and different ways of introducing them into a literary context. In addition to these goals, literary works may be of great interest also as a source of dialectal information on a particular region. Dialectal words can designate certain local realities, household items, etc. which are not known in popular language, or be equivalents of verbose concepts in literary language. The value of this information lies in the fact that they reproduce the dialect features of the patois of those times, that are described in the work. Moreover, in these works there are many unusual anthroponyms (names, surnames, nicknames), microtoponyms and other local names of herbs, mushrooms, etc. of interest to linguists. All this can serve as a good material for the preparation of regional, including dialectal, dictionaries. The degree of frequency of dialectal information in such works may be different. It depends upon the theme of the work, the characters portrayed, goals that the author the author set, the writer’s skill, and so on. This information can be expressed by single words or represent a broad picture of dialectal phenomena that can be used to reproduce a significant part of the linguistic characteristics of the patois.