Vilija Sakalauskienė. Image of žmogus in the lexicograpgical sources of Lithuanian dialects: ethnolinguistic and semantic aspects
Vilija Sakalauskienė. Image of žmogus in the lexicograpgical sources of Lithuanian dialects: ethnolinguistic and semantic aspects
Study. Vilnius: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 2021. ISBN 978-609-411-308-6, doi.org/10.35321/e-pub.19.zmogus-tarmineje-leksikografijoje
Based on examples from dialectal dictionaries, the study aims to analyse the image of Žmogus (man) rooted in Lithuanian dialects that have their data recorded in lexicographic sources. Lithuanian ethnolinguistics has never used data from dialectal dictionaries on such an expansive scale ever before, yet recently that data have been drawing an increasing amount of attention from ethnolinguists, while the importance of dialectal dictionaries as cultural texts is being emphasised more and more often. The broad range of data available in the different dialectal dictionaries indicate what kind of a semantic and ethnolinguistic image of Žmogus (man) is embedded in the Lithuanian dialects of the second half of the 20th century and the 2000s, and which of the qualities of that image are to be considered the most important and significant. The material available in dialectal dictionaries can be said to reveal the linguistic world view of the common man, because the dictionaries allow us to observe the genesis of the concept, trace the usage of the word in different periods of the development of the society, and see the shift in its meaning and its connection to various historical developments mirrored in the consciousness of people.
