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DEVELOPMENT OF SEMANTIC-DERIVATIVE POTENTIAL OF NAMES OF CORRELATIVE CONCEPTS OF STUDENT IN ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGE CULTURES // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2018. Issue 4 (193). P. 142-146

Correlative concepts STUDENT refer to understudied cultural and mental entities. The relevance of this work is determined by the need to understand deeply the content, as well as to detalize the structure of these concepts, correlated with the significant social figure of modern human communities. The subject of study are lexicographic meanings of the names of concepts STUDENT, fixed in dictionaries of English and Russian languages of XIX– XX centuries. The paper allots the following tasks: 1) to carry out an analysis of historical and linguistic information concerning the word student, which are contained in dictionary entries written in English; 2) to analyze historical and linguistic information concerning the word student, contained in dictionary entries written in Russian; 3) to compare the results obtained. During the research, we use methods of descriptive method (observation, comparison, generalization, interpretation), definition analysis, combined with semantic analysis, as well as contextual analysis of the dictionary illustrations. The article is intended for researchers in the field of lexical semantics, linguoculturology, linguo-conceptology. So, the concept STUDENT appeared in English worldview earlier than the concept STUDENT in Russian worldview. This is evidenced by the time of lexicographic imaging of key names of these correlative concepts. Initially, student was associated with people, enthusiastic books, then with people who acquired knowledge and life experience in different educational institutions, and, finally, with people who receive this or that specialty. In the name of concept STUDENT there is a certain dynamics: the expansion of semantic field, especially due to units that are hyponyms to the keyword. In all dictionaries of the Russian language, the lexical unit student is indicated as borrowing from European languages. For a long time in the Russian linguistic culture, its nuclear part remains practically unchanged. In the meaning of the word student, only peripheral semes are changed or modified. We can also state the enrichment of the derivational potential of this word. The development of the semantic-derivational possibilities of the names of the considered correlative concepts is related to the peculiarities of a particular language. In English, the word student is characterized by semantic derivation, in Russian by word-formative derivation.

Keywords: representatives of concepts STUDENT, historical and linguistic aspect of research, lexicographic sources of the English and Russian languages

SIGNS OF CONCEPT “STUDENT” REPRESENTED IN RUSSIAN NATIONAL CORPUS // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2019. Issue 9 (206). P. 72-77

Introduction. The concept “student” is common to different linguistic cultures of a civilized society and relates to the academic sphere of human activity. This work is devoted to the study of actualized and hidden features – structurally-meaningful components – of the concept “student”. Material and methods. The object of the study is the fragments of Russian National Corpus (RNC). In this paper, we study minimal contexts, usually equal to the sentence and detailed contexts, usually coinciding with the paragraph, as well as the headings of texts reflecting 1900–1917. The relevance of this work is determined by the social significance of the student’s figure in developed human communities and the lack of knowledge on RNC material of the concept related to it. The study examines the most typical uses of the word in multi-style (literary and non-literary) and multi-genre texts of RNC. The methods of the descriptive method (observation, classification, interpretation, generalization, arithmetic calculations) and the methods of linguo-conceptual analysis (contextual and semantic analysis, the analysis of the concept name, correlation of the concept name with historical and cultural data, modeling the structure of the concept, corpus linguistics techniques) are used in the work. Results and discussion. The categorical (qualitative, event-time, spatial) and non-categorical (biological, anthropomorphic) signs of the name of concept “student” are revealed. The taxonomic and nuclear-peripheral models of the studied concept are proposed. During the construction of the first model, the connection between concept “student” and super-concepts “human”, “education/to study” (“to learn”), “higher educational institution is determined”. In the nuclear-peripheral model of this concept, being characterized for the beginning of the last century, the main complex (compound) semes are ‘young man’, ‘studying for a certain time at a university or institute’, ‘engaged mainly in educational activities to obtain one or another profession’. The socio-political and individual characteristics are presumably found in the interpretational field of the considered concept. It was also established that there is no connotation in the lexical semantics of the name of concept “student”. All self-evaluative features of this word are contextually determined. Conclusion. This work is intended for researchers in the field of lexical semantics, linguo-culturology and for students of linguistic conceptual analysis techniques.

Keywords: concept name “student”, its semantic attributes, contexts of Russian National Corpus