Specific Features of the Associative Field of the Lexeme “Gloves” During the COVID – 19 Pandemic
Abstract
The study of the dynamics of lexical meaning based on the data of an associative experiment is relevant, since the results obtained can be used to update lexicographic meanings and update the definitions of traditional explanatory dictionaries. Free associative experiment is an effective method that provides access to the native speakers’ linguistic consciousness and fixes the actual meaning of a word for a person, which differs from the traditional dictionary meaning and represents the mental reality of a “living” word.
The purpose of this work is to identify the meanings of the lexeme "gloves" that are relevant for modern linguistic consciousness through a comparative analysis of the data obtained as a result of our free associative experiment conducted with native speakers of the Russian language.
A comparative analysis of the experimental materials with the definitions of explanatory dictionaries, as well as with the data of the Russian Associative Dictionary, demonstrates the extension of the range of meanings of the lexeme "gloves", due to socio-economic changes in society, including the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the results of our experiment, it is obvious that such meaning components as doctor, cleanliness, protection, coronavirus, hospital, safety, medicine, pandemic, virus are dominant in the native speakers’ linguistic consciousness. In addition, the analyzed lexeme has a fairly wide range of attributes that are directly related to the modern reality: protective gloves, rubber gloves, disposable gloves, medical gloves, sterile gloves, household gloves, work gloves. In the Russian associative dictionary these reactions are not fixed. The results of our study clearly prove the fact that extralinguistic reality has influenced the nature of the association strategies.
About the Author
Yu. R. Melikhova
Kursk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yuliya R. Melikhova, Cand. of Sci. (Philological), Associate Professor
Department of Translation and Intercultural Communication
305000
33, Radishchev str.
Kursk
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Melikhova Yu.R. Specific Features of the Associative Field of the Lexeme “Gloves” During the COVID – 19 Pandemic. Proceedings of the Southwest State University. Series: Linguistics and Pedagogy. 2022;12(3):23-33. (In Russ.)
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