Phytonymic Pejorative Names for Men in the Pirot Speech (Linguo­cul­tu­ral Aspect)

Dragana M. Ratković

doi:10.15388/slavviln.2021.66(2).74

Abstract

The subject of the paper are nouns and noun phrases of negative expressive tonality, which primarily name realities from the plant world (plants and their parts, terms related to wood processing), and secondarily people in the Pirot dialect. The analysis also includes derivatives of units that belong to the semantic field “phytonym” and noun phrases whose adjective has a phytonymic meaning. The corpus consists of two dictionaries of the Pirot dialect: Novica Živković [Živković 1987] and Dragoljub Zlatković [Zlatković 2014; 2017]. The author analyzes language units from the linguocultural aspect to answer the questions related to: (1) human characteristics, behaviors and actions in Pirot speech which initiate negative characterization of a person with a phytonymic pejoratives; (2) appointments that reveal evaluation parameters; (3) the relationship between pejoration and laudation on the material of botanical vocabulary and terminology in naming the man in the Pirot dialect and (4) the relation of the phytonymic pejoration of man in the Pirot dialect with the same names in the modern Serbian language. Such a methodological procedure enables (1) reconstruction of the conceptualization of man as a plant outlined by phytonymic pejoratives in the linguistic picture of the world and in the traditional culture of the Pirot region, as well as (2) consideration of relations and determination of (in) similarity with the image of the world in the modern Serbian language developed by the same lexical-semantic means.

Highlights

ISSN 2351-6895 eISSN 2424-6115 Slavistica Vilnensis that reveal evaluation parameters; (3) the relationship between pejoration and laudation on the material of botanical vocabulary and terminology in naming the man in the Pirot dialect and (4) the relation of the phytonymic pejoration of man in the Pirot dialect with the same names in the modern Serbian language. Such a methodological procedure enables (1) reconstruction of the conceptualization of man as a plant outlined by phytonymic pejoratives in the linguistic picture of the world and in the traditional culture of the Pirot region, as well as (2) consideration of relations and determination of similarity with the image of the world in the modern Serbian language developed by the same lexical-semantic means
Компаративни поглед на анализирану лексику у речницима ПГ, с једне стране, и дату лек сику у речницима савременог српско(хрватско)г књижевног и народног језика, с друге стране, показ ује да у датим речницима савременог језика многе пиротске лексеме и изрази изостају, а од оних које су потврђ ене и у тим изворима, изостају значења која ре фериш у на човека, што говори у прилог јаче асоцијативне везе између биљке и човека у пиротској средини и уопште прис уства биљног света у пиротској дијалекатској слици света

Summary

Introduction

У фитонимске пејоративе који се у савременом српском језику користе за имен ов ање човека као припадника друштвеног слоја, носиоца соц ијалног/материјалног статуса или предс тавн ика занимања спадају називи за: особе са села (балван), почетн ике у обављању нек ог посла (букварац) и безначајне људи ((ситна) боранија).

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