Omsk Dostoevsky State University, Russia, Omsk, larisabut@rambler.ru, egoots@yandex.ru
The purpose of the article is to present the findings obtained in the course of a trend study of subjective semantics of one stimulus which falls into the current vocabulary of the Russian language – lexeme happiness, ran between 2003 and 2021. The research object is the semantics of a word as a subjective value, a fragment of the linguistic consciousness of young respondents. The findings have revealed the dynamics of the core of the associative field (AF) (the most stereotyped part) along the line of initial growth from 76,6% to 79,% between 2002–2003 and 2010–2012 and further decrease to 52% in 2020–2021; an increase in the number of lexemes in the nucleus, a change in their frequency (a decrease in the stereotype component), restructuring of the perinuclear part, a constant increase in the periphery of the field. The ratio of all parts of the associative field, compiled from the results of the experiments in 2020–2021, shows the most tangible dynamics of the subjective semantics of this stimulus. The model of the cognitive structure of the associative field revealed the relative stability of the cognitive (semantic) areas of its composition. The constancy of the types of cognitive layers (semantic areas) in the composition of the AF, different content of each layer, stability / variability of the qualitative and quantitative parameters, which are indicators of the lines along which the semantics of the stimulus is formed as the property of an individual, have been established. The experiments have shown the difference in the directions of change in the subjective semantics of the lexeme happiness, the dissimilarity of the dynamics of different fragments, the mobility of stable parts.
subjective semantics of a word; actual vocabulary; associative experiment; trend research; language consciousness
Download textFor citing: Butakova, L.O., Goots, E.N. (2021). Subjective semantics of value oriented words: trend study of lexeme happiness. Ethnopsycholinguistics. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 1(4), pp. 7-30. DOI: 10.31249/epl/2021.01.01