On the Study of Nonstandard Mineral Vocabulary: the Names of Crystals

The article discusses nonstandard gemstone names – the of precious stones that do not belong to official international mineralogical terminology. In Russian linguistics, this lexical group remains understudied. paper reflects on ideographic specifics names. It deals with crystals used in Middle Urals dialectal speech as well language stonecutters, hunters, and amateur minerologists. This territory was chosen for research it has a rich tradition mineral recovery carving. units analyzed denote crystal minerals. A large part collected expeditions author’s participation. attempts create an classification crystals. whole array material divided into 7 basic thematic groups: “Color characteristics crystals,” “Specifics growth formation types,” “Crystal inclusions,” size,” “The parts “Processes inside crystals”, “Characterization quality preciousness crystals.” For some lexemes, author comments their semantics, motivation, grammatical sometimes ethnolinguistic sociolinguistic features. determines rate occurrence (based number lexemes within particular group) each analyzes reasons differences rate.