Siberian ceremonial dinner in the light of language

Statement of the problem. The article examines the traditions of feasting culture as one of the elements of everyday life culture from the standpoint of different research areas: Cultural Studies, History, Ethnography, Philology and Linguistics, - and the description of the feast itself is interdisciplinary. The purpose of the article is to describe the Russian food discourse by analyzing the vocabulary of ceremonial dinners of the late 19th and early 20th centuries at the city of Krasnoyarsk. Methodology (materials and methods). The research methodology consists of a descriptive method, a method of semantic analysis, methods of linguoculturological and ethnocultural description. The materials of the research are the texts of the menu of eight ceremonial dinners in Krasnoyarsk; more than 100 lexical units of dish names; fiction texts. As a result, the study demonstrated that the ceremonial table in Siberia was arranged according to the metropolitan models, but also had the regional characteristics; performed a translational function and preserved the meanings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which are key for the gastronomic culture of the Siberian city. Research results. The author’s contribution is seen in the fact that the analyzed texts represent the general and particular national specifics of the gastronomic discourse functioning as a code of everyday life in the context of the Russian picture of the world. The results expand the understanding of food as an object of research in linguistics; can be used in the study and description of gastronomic culture and food discourse; in the training courses in Cultural Linguistics.