Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by D.N. Ushakov as an ethnolinguistic source
... both the literary and colloquial speech of educated people in the new Soviet Russia. It characterized the individual of the new social order and recorded emerging linguistic norms. The aim of this article is to present this dictionary as a potential source for the study of ethnolinguistic vocabulary. It is demonstrated that Ushakov’s work not only fulfills all the normative functions of an explanatory dictionary but also objectively contains a significant amount of dialectal vocabulary, as it was ...
