LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY IN THE RESEARCH OF SAMARA DIALECTOLOGICAL SCHOOL

The article presents the stages of linguistic geography development in the Samara region. Volga’s dialects in the aspect of linguistic geography have been studied insufficiently for a long time. For refining the linguistic landscape of our region the linguists of Samara suggested the idea of a regional atlas. To promote the idea, the dialectologists employed both theoretical and practical experience of the compilers of foreign and Russian linguistic atlases. The main results of long-term work are identification of structure and dialectal distribution of Samara accents of later development, refining the linguistic landscape of peripheral areas. The most objective idea of dialect landscape in the Volga Region of Samara can be obtained with the aid of the method of the marks cartography of dialect phenomena in each separate populated area. In 2009 linguistic and geographic research in Samara resulted in publishing the atlas, which contains 63 phonetic and morphological maps and the typological map. The lexical volume of the regional atlas is being created now. For “Lexical Atlas of Samara Dialects” more than 60 e-maps on the themes “Material Culture”, “Animals”, “Farming and Vegetable Growing”, “Natural Phenomena”, “Wedding”, “Verbs”have been elaborated. The method of marks is employed in lexic cartography. Regional atlases elaborated as a supplement to the general Russian atlas is also an example ofmethodology of identifying language varieties - the main characteristics of Russian migrant accents. The maps of linguistic atlases reflect the realia of traditional material and spiritual culture.