The adversative conjunctions a 'but', no 'but', da 'but' in the Russian dialects of the Amur Region (Communicative and pragmatic aspects)

The article examines utterances with the coordinating conjunctions a 'but', no 'but', da (=no) 'but' that express contrast. The aim was to identify communicative and pragmatic meanings in whose expression these conjunctions participate along with other linguistic means. The research was conducted on the material of the Russian local accents of the Amur Region. The choice of local accents was determined by the modern tendency in science to describe regional varieties on the anthropological basis. Descriptive design was used together with quantitative and comparative methods, semantic and communicativepragmatic analyses to collect and process the material. It was found that the role of conjunctions a, no, da in dialect speakers is primarily limited to messages about a “normal” or “abnormal” consequence between composed propositions. In utterances expressing normal consequence, these conjunctions (except for da) are used by the speaker, as a rule, for explanationidentity, explanationclarification and explanationdescription. Utterances expressing abnormal consequence report (both directly and indirectly) about certain circumstances of an objective or subjective nature that arbitrarily affect a particular state of affairs. The results of this study not only enlarge the information about the features of the coordinating conjunctions a, no, da expressing contrast but also contribute to a deeper understanding of the linguistic picture of the world of local accents speakers as well as native Russian speakers as a whole.