@ARTICLE{Николаева_Елена_Substandard_2021, author={Николаева, Елена and Николаев, Сергей}, volume={vol. LXX}, number={No 3}, pages={555-562}, journal={Slavia Orientalis}, howpublished={online}, year={2021}, publisher={Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN}, abstract={This article examines substandard vocabulary in Russian proverbs attested in collections going back to the period from the end of the 17th century. Our analysis of collections published in the 18th through to 20th century shows that their authors’ excessive prudery and moral purism along with state‑imposed censorship severely affected both the nature of folklore as a genre and the history of the Russian language. In later reprints one often detects an intentional corruption of the text possibly caused by either censorial demands or by the well‑intentioned self‑censorship of the editors who redacted the proverbs and replaced “lowly” lexical items with socially acceptable ones based on their idea of contemporary moral norms. Any investigation of Russian phraseology of the 17th‑18th centuries must therefore be based on primary sources such as manuscripts or early printed books.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Substandard Vocabulary in Russian Proverbs and Sayings From the First Half of the 18th Century}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/121260/PDF-MASTER/2021-03-SOR-06-Nikolajewa.pdf}, doi={10.24425/slo.2021.138193}, keywords={substandard vocabulary, phraseological unit, proverbs, phraseology}, }