DEGREE OF RUSSIFICATION OF SURGUT KHANTY: THE RESULTS OF A SOCIOLINGUISTIC EXPERIMENT

Glushak Vasilij Mihajlovich, Kiseeva Ol'ga Viktorovna

DOI: 10.23951/2307-6119-2019-2-39-50

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Glushak V. M., Doctor of Philology, Professor of the German Language Department. Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. Pr. Vernadskogo76, Moscow, Russia, 119454. Email: glushakvm@mail.ru Kiseeva O. V., Senior lecturer of the Department of Linguistics and Translation Studies. Surgut State University. Ul. Lenina, 54/1, Khanty-Mansiysk, Tyumen Region, Russia, 628012. E-mail: spolkolu@rambler.ru

A sociolinguistic experiment was conducted to determine the extent of the presence of purist and contaminated doublets, as well as Russicisms in the Surgut dialect of the Khanty language. The analysis showed that there is a significant connection between the belonging of the subjects to a particular social group and certain mechanisms for constructing language samples in the Surgut dialect of the Khanty language. The intelligentsia of the Surgut Khanty gravitates towards purist tendencies, using the phonetic, lexical and morphological potential of the Surgut dialect, and tries to avoid contamination and pure Russification for linguistic processing of borrowings from the Russian language. Pupils and students actively use the principles of Russification, not being convinced supporters of the purist approach and not attaching much importance to contamination in the transfer of borrowings from the Russian language. To transfer borrowings Surgut Khanty, living in camps and lands, do not attach much importance to the puristic imperative of their linguistic form. At the same time they realize the alienation of the complete Russification of borrowed tokens and use the principle of contamination when adapting borrowed words in the Surgut dialect of the Khanty language.

Keywords: Khanty language, Surgut dialect, Russicism, loanwords, purism, contamination

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Issue: 2, 2019

Series of issue: Issue 2

Rubric: LINGUISTICS

Pages: 39 — 50

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