%0 Journal Article %T META-LINGUISTIC UTTERANCES AS THE SOURCE OF DATA: THE ANALYSIS OF RUSSIAN GERMANS LANGUAGE SYSTEM IN SIBERIA %A Alexandrov Oleg Anatolievich %J Magister Dixit %D 2012 %I Irkutsk State Linguistic University %X The present article summarizes the results of the fieldwork of the Russian Germans dialects of the Tomsk Region and sets two main goals: it asserts that metalinguistic utterances of Russian Germans can be used for dialectical studies as a source of data; on the other hand it reveals its potential as a source for description of dialects in Siberia. %K Russian Germans dialects %K metalanguage consciousness %K metatext %K dialectal system. %U http://md.islu.ru/sites/md.islu.ru/files/rar/alexandrov_ispravlennaya.pdf