Associative-semantic dictionary as the linguistic consciousness model of region's inhabitants (by example of Omsk inhabitants)

Thearticle is devoted to the complex type of lexicographic publication, based on experimental evidence and combination of two types ofdictionaries - associative and semantic. One of the purposes of the research, described in the article, is to develop a scheme of the materialpresenting in the associative-semantic type of dictionary on the basis of analysis of the experiment's several stages. The dictionaryof this type supposes reflection of associative and semantic information about word-stimulus, received via the result of three types ofexperiments: a free associative and two semantic ones to interpret the meaning, and a perceptive one to determine the emotional-sensorycomponent of semantics. The experiment was conducted in 2009-2010 in Omsk and parts of Omsk region. At all the stages of the experimentsinformants were students of schools, gymnasiums, lyceums, colleges and technical schools aged from 10-12 to 17-18, studentsof different universities of the city aged 18 to 25. The categories of informants (pupils and students) were chosen to allow identifyingthe system of ethical, aesthetic, emotive and evaluative patterns of consciousness in the dynamics. The stimulus list included fortywords (nouns and adjectives), defining basic ethical, aesthetic and value concepts: home, life, beauty, love, money, will, hope, forgiveness, sin, lies, fame, passion, frustration, compassion, guilt, generosity, faithfulness, etc. In addition, it contained 10 words used in theassociative experiments of a project participant Ye.N. Gouts in 1980-2000. They are the kernel of teenagers' linguistic consciousness -kicks, sucker, bad, evil, friend, sex, etc. The stimulus list was the same for all participants of the experiment. The volume of selection ofthe association experiment shown in the article is from 280 to 500 associates to each stimulus. The volume of selection of the semantic(definitional) and receptive experiments described in the article is more than 400 associations for each stimulus. The associative part ofthe dictionary is made traditionally - from stimulus to response with fixation of the kernel (most frequent reactions) at first, then - of theperiphery of the associative field (infrequent and single reactions). Identification and interpretation of the meaning of words was carriedout by the same principle. The basic units of the semantic model became "semantic factors": "words with full semantics" used in theright side of the dictionary, in this case - in the interpretation (definitions), obtained from the subjects in the semantic experiment. Inaddition, a dictionary entry represents specifying units, which can be words, combination of words, individual segments of speech andwhole utterances. At the end of a dictionary entry there is information about the emotional component of word, which was identified bythe method of semantic differential.

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