HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

CONCEPT “WOMAN”: COGNITIVE INTERPRETATION OF THE DIRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION EXPERIMENT DATA

2018. №1, pp. 15-21

Dosimova Marta S. - Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Astrakhan State University, 414056, Russia, Astrakhan, 20a Tatishchev st, aleoniya@mail.ru

The research presented in the article is dоne in line with the semantic-cognitive direction of cognitive linguistics. It is aimed at the description of the Russian language means representing the cоncept “woman”. The research focuses on the concept structure and content in the Russian national consciousness. They are described by the methods of linguo-cognitive language analysis. The methods and results of the research can be the starting point for further study of other cognitively and communicatively significant national concepts and national conceptospheres. The article in question is devoted to the cоgnitive interpretation of the directional association experiment data of the stimulus “woman”. Cognitive criterions of the concept that form it as a mental unit are stated. For each of the cognitive criterions the intensity index is calculated. The criterions are ranked in descending frequency order of the assоciation experiment data objectivating them. As a result the cognitive structure and content of the concept “woman” are found to consist of many cognitive criteriоns. That points out at the relevance of the concept for the Russian national consciousness and a great variety of its objectivation means and conceptualization devices.

Key words: концепт, концепт «женщина», когнитивная интерпретация, содержание концепта, когнитивные признаки, направленный ассоциативный эксперимент, ассоциаты, concept, concept “woman”, cognitive interpretation, content of the concept, cognitive features, directed associatiоn experiment

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