Motivational and associative Russian dictionary: theoretical foundationand lexicographic conception

The article discusses the problems posed by a need to develop a new type of motivational dictionaries,which the article suggests to call motivational-associative dictionary (MAD), or a dictionaryof motivational associations. In the first part of the article the author discusses the linguistic and theoreticalbackground of the MAD. Motivation articles are considered as an important manifestation ofstructural and functional plans of Russian lexis. They are interpreted in the article as an external representationof the deep essence of language - its internal form, they appear as a consequence of thefunctioning mechanism of the planes of the word's content and expression, the genesis of the wordand its interpretation of existence, the lexical system and its individual components. Motivationalassociation is a consequence of lexical systemic and, at the same time, a factor of its forming.The second part deals with strictly lexicographical questions of MAD. It refers to the type of associativedictionary of Russian language. Its data are the result of the directed associative experiment,for example, the word-stimulus ЗЛАЧНЫЙ gives reactions: ЗЛАКИ, ЗЛО, ЗЛОЙ,ЗЛОСЧАСТНЫЙ, ЗЛОВОННЫЙ, ЗЛАТО, АЛЧНЫЙ, ЗОЛОТОЙ, МРАЧНЫЙ, СОЧНЫЙ,БЛАТНОЙ, ХЛЕБНЫЙ, ГАДКИЙ, ПОРОЧНЫЙ, etc. A variant of a dictionary article is offered. Ittakes into account the frequency of reactions (including the number of refusals) and their substantivecontent. To meet the latter objective it is proposed to differentiate the formal semantic, formal andsemantic reactions.The article deals with the conditions of motivational reactions experimental treating. Special attentionis paid to the necessity of metalinguistic formulating the task and organizing the list of thestudied words. The statement is proved according to which dictionary words should have the ability ofactivating motivational associations (e. g. БАБОЧКА, БАГУЛЬНИК, БАЙБАК, БАКЛУШИ,БАЛАБОЛКА, БАЛАГУР). For this reason highly motivated words, which give the same reactions(БЕГУН, БЕЛИЛА), should be differentiated from simple frequent words, which stimulate refusingfrom reactions (БАЗАР, БРА, БАК).In the final part of the article MAD is regarded as a linguistic source, its research capabilities arediscussed.The article continues the tradition of motivology - a scientific discipline, which is actively developedby the professor of Tomsk State University Olga Iosifovna Blinova. The writer is her disciple, one of the first of her graduate students. The paper is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of theTeacher.

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