The Image of Russian Color term Brown in the Consciousness of Russian Culture Bearers
Abstract
This article is a comprehensive study of the image of Russian color term brown in the linguistic consciousness of modern Russian culture bearers. To identify the image of this color term we used various psycholinguistic (free associative experiment, semantic differential), linguistic (definitional analysis) and statistical (factor analysis) methods. The presented study is part of a study devoted to the psycholinguistic study of the images of twelve Russian color terms. The basis of our work is the psycholinguistic research of A. A. Zalevskaya, the theory of cultural knowledge by F. Sharifian, as well as the works of E. I. Goroshko and O. V. Safuanova devoted to the study of colors
and color terms.
The object of the study is color term brown.
The subject of the research is the image of color as a reflection of objects and phenomena of the material world in the linguistic consciousness of an individual.
Our study allowed us to consider the image of color term brown both in the synchronous and diachronic aspects, since we used the data of experiments carried out in different years served as the material for the study. The presence of both men and women among the respondents made it possible to carry out a gender comparison of the results and to determine the gender specificity of the perception of the investigated verbal stimulus. As a result, the work shows the structure and gender characteristics of color term brown associative field, as well as the dynamics of its change. The research methodology presented in this work can be used for a comprehensive analysis of the images of various terms in the linguistic consciousness of native speakers of different languages.
About the Author
Е. A. Таnygina
Southwest State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Еlena A. Таnygina, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor
Department of Foreign Languages
305040
50 Let Oktyabrya str. 94
Kursk
Researcher ID: 0000-0002-5488-4185
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Таnygina Е.A. The Image of Russian Color term Brown in the Consciousness of Russian Culture Bearers. Proceedings of the Southwest State University. Series: Linguistics and Pedagogy. 2021;11(1):54-70. (In Russ.)
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