Offered article shows results of field expeditions realized within the territory of Tomsk region and aimed to research of metalanguage consciousness of the Russian Germans. In research the multimethodological principle of modern linguistics is being developed: by means of a combination the qualitative and quantitative methods of field collecting of material is considered an ordinary metalanguage reflection of informants as a source for primary sociolinguistic parametrisation of "small" language. An article will be interesting to representatives of such linguistic disciplines as field, "naive" linguistics, dialectology and ecolinguistics.