Subjective Assessment Of Dialects In The Terminology Of German Dialectology

The article discusses the problem of relations to a dialect as an extralinguistic factor, which not only contributed to the emergence of German dialectology as a linguistic discipline but also influenced the formation of terminology in the field of German dialectology. At the beginning of the article, a brief excursion is given about how dialectology has been revived as a science. Supporters of a populist point of view created lists of dialectisms that needed to be avoided in speech. Other scientists constituted dictionaries to preserve dialects as cultural heritage. One way or another, both approaches are a negative or positive attitude towards regional varieties of language - the cause of the creation of historical literary monuments, which served as the foundation for the formation of dialectology as science. Within the framework of social dialectology and perceptual dialectology, the study of such a phenomenon as a subjective assessment of the dialect took a separate niche, which is evidenced by the formation of many terminological nests reflecting a positive or negative assessment of the dialect. As an output, it is noted that the formation and development of the German dialectology and its terminological corps affected not only the attitude towards the dialect of its carriers but also the scientists of dialectologists. The article discusses the dependence of scientific knowledge on the influence of extralinguistic factors the relation to the dialect.