Author’s name:
P. I. Kostomarov, Yu. V. Kobenko
Abstract:
This article presents the analysis ofthe language situation,done as part of a sociolinguisticstudy among representatives of the German ethnic minority in the Molchanovo district of Tomsk regionwhich has been a place of concentrated residence ofGerman immigrants since the second half of the 20thcentury. Using recorded monologicand dialogicspeechas well as questionnaire data, theauthorsidentify subject-specific areas that have communicative significance in the speech behavior of Russian Germans in thearea.The purpose of this article is to examine the functioning of the German dialect in the speech of representatives of the German ethnic minority fromthe Molchanovo district of Tomsk region as an exogloss component of the language situation.The study uses data from a sociolinguistic analysis of the language situation conducted on the territory of the Molchanovo district of Tomsk region in 2017. The main researchmethods are observation, comparison and interpretation, oral interviews,and questionnaires.
The analysis of the language situation in the indicated region has revealed a significant dominance of the Russian languageover German in all areas of everyday communication. Thus, 99% of the Russian Germans surveyed use the Russian language,which has become their native language (54%) and serves as the main means of communication among the informants. Since,due toits long-term residence in a Russian-speaking environment,the Molchanovo German ethnic minority has been isolated from the German-speaking parent communityin Germany,thishasbrought about a widespread use of Russian in oral (72%) and written (63%) speech as well as communication inthe workplace(72%). Of no small importance is the belief of these Russian Germans in the importance of the Russian language for the development of Tomsk region (63%)as well as the use of Russian in religious practice when reading texts and prayers (45%), caused by more than fifty years of living inthe area dominated by a different religioustradition (Russian Orthodox).Thus thelanguage situation among RussianGermans in the Molchanovo district of Tomsk region is characterized by a significant dominance of the Russian language as its endoglossic exponent.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2020-50-2-27-39 |
| Downloads | 271 |
| Key words | involution;Tomskregion;Russian Germans;language situation. |
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