Butakova Larisa Olegovna – Doctor of Philology Science, Professor, Professor of the Department of Russian Language, Literature and Document Communications, Omsk Dostoevsky State University, larisabut@rambler.ru Tao Ye – postgraduate student of the Department of Russian Language, Literature and Document Communications, Omsk Dostoevsky State University, taoye_1004@126.com
The paper examines the processes of formation of semantic areas associated with the Russian language lexemes of different grammatical classes in the mental lexicon of Chinese students studying the Russian language. The goal is to analyze the semantic composition of the lexemes’ falling into different grammatical categories in the mental lexicon of Chinese students studying Russian in China; and to identify trends in the formation of semantic areas of the gestalt type, establishing what’s common and what’s different in the association strategies, the connections between the reactions and the stimuli of different parts of speech and ways of bringing them “to the surface” relying on an Association Method with foreign speakers. The object of the study is lexemes of different parts of speech and different semantics as fragments of the mental lexicon of bilinguals learning Russian. The subject of the study is the structures of consciousness of educational bilinguals associated with the words man, woman, work, love, bad, fast. The associative fields were subjected at the first stage to the procedure of modeling semantic gestalts, at the second stage to assessing the volume of semantic zones, and at the third stage to establishing the type of correlation of the stimulus with certain semantic areas. The results of the study are as follows: a connection was established between the nature of the formation of the semantic space of a linguistic sign and educational communication within the framework of which the language is studied; stable and unstable areas of semantics and grammar are manifested in the Association Method through the features of speech actions.
Association Method; associative field; semantic gestalt of the associative field; individual meaning, educational bilingualism.
Download textFor citing: Butakova L.O., Tao Ye. Formation of a word’s meaning in the bilingual mental lexicon. Ethnopsycholinguistics, 3(18), 26-45. DOI: 10.31249/epl/2024.03.02