Professional Pronunciation Variants: Myths and Reality

It should be noted that the lack of systematic scientific research on stress variants used in a narrow professional circle generates a large number of ‘myths’ and erroneous interpretations when lexicographers try to describe this section of the accentological system. It is known that one of the striking features of sounding speech used in professional communication is a special place of stress, different from the normative one: álkogol', astrónom, atómnyi, dóbycha, iskrá, kompás, narkomaníya, osúzhdennyi, prígovor, shássi.. The analysis of various pronouncing dictionaries shows the inconsistency of the information attributed to professional pronouncing variants. There is a mixture of two different phenomena. Some cases can be related to professional slang: for example, doctors pronounce álkogol', maníya, fobíya, etc., miners rúdnik, dóbycha, physicists atóm. However, sometimes the words that should be marked as ‘substandard language’ are attributed to the professional slang category. For example, the word blyudá, interpreted in some dictionaries as a variant peculiar to ‘professional communication of cooks, waiters, etc.’ or mál'chikovyi, considered by some authors as a professional variant in the speech of sellers.

Representative sociolinguistic experiments could allow not only to identify professional variants that actually function in live speech, but also to separate them from other linguistic phenomena. The results of such studies will undoubtedly lead to a sharp decrease of variants with the professional mark in the dictionaries, and the number of prohibitive litters will increase due to the labeling of colloquial and obsolete variants.

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Russian pronunciation, pronunciation variants, dictionaries, normative variants, professional variants

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28.12.2022

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GOST	Kalenchuk M. Professional Pronunciation Variants: Myths and Reality // Russkaya Rech’ – 2022. – Issue 6 C. 63-70 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/rusrech/s013161170023737-9-1-en (circulation date: 28.11.2023). DOI: 10.31857/S013161170023737-9
MLA	Kalenchuk, Maria L "Professional Pronunciation Variants: Myths and Reality." Russkaya Rech’ 6 (2022):63-70. DOI: 10.31857/S013161170023737-9
APA	Kalenchuk M. (2022). Professional Pronunciation Variants: Myths and Reality. Russkaya Rech’ (6), pp.63-70 DOI: 10.31857/S013161170023737-9

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