Poetic Regionalism (to the Definition of the Concept)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of poetic regionalisms as a special kind of regional words. The relevance of the study is due to the growing popularity of regional linguistic research. The author proceeds from the fact that the consequence of the diversity of approaches to the study of material in regional linguistics is the lack of unification in the use of certain basic terms (for example, “regionalism”). It is noted that not all types of regionalisms are identified and described in the scientific literature. The notion of “regionalism” is specified. It is shown that regionalisms can be used by native speakers of different forms of language existence, that is, they function in literary, colloquial language, slang discourses. The definition of the term poetic regionalism is given. Classification of the functions of poetic regionalisms is proposed. The following functions are distinguished: nominative, ethnographic, stylistic, identifying, cognitive, emotional and poetic. It is shown that poetic regionalisms are one of the means of realizing poetic function in texts describing local reality. They are associated with special aesthetic experiences of the writer and his reader, who are based on knowledge of regional realities and words that designate them. As an example, regionalisms selected from the works of poet, prose writer, playwright and journalist V. Goldovskaya are given.