ON EXPRESSIVE-STYLISTIC QUALITIES OF THE DIALECTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DEATH
The paper deals with dialectal figural images of death and allied notions; some ways of creating their euphemic and dysphemic nominations are defined. Functional-semantic qualities and expressiveness of lexical items and idioms assuming the semantics of mortality are discussed; the dependence of expressive characteristics of the notions ‘to die’, ‘to bury’ on the character of expressiveness and origin of the notions is demonstrated. The peculiarities of folk perception of death reflected in the dialectal speech are elicited in the paper; the usage of figural nominations of death and connected to it phenomena as a means of psychological safeguard and cultural tabooing is discussed. Various models of attitude to death and its duality in folk consciousness represented in figural vocabulary and phraseology are revealed.