LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Daiktavardžių deminutyvai; Deminutyvai; Dialektologija; Kalbėjimo situacijos; Mažybiniai žodžiai; Mažybinių žodžių funkcijos; Širvintiškių patarmė; Širvintiškių šnekta; Dialectology; Diminutive words; Diminutives of nouns; Functional usage of diminutive words; Speech situation; Širvintiškiai subdialect.
ENThe diminutives of nouns in Širvintiškiai sub dialect are used in the following speech situations: 1) when they name small, petty things or young people; when there is a desire to protect oneself from something; when the usage of diminutives of nouns is understood as a colloquial feature, but the evaluation is not expressed explicitly; 2) when the subjects named by the diminutives of nouns are evaluated positively (they are small and kind; only kind; when compassion, exhortation, expostulation, appeal are denoted); 3) when the derivatives of nouns are used in such speech situations where the subjects they name are evaluated negatively (subjects show aridity, and when somebody is cursing); 4) when the diminutives emphasize the size of the subjects (the extensive context is needed to perceive a speech situation). [text from author]