Article

Name: Embodiment features of verbal culture: universal facets of the specific

Authors: I. V. Shaposhnikova

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Linguistics

Abstract: The issue of cultural universals is analyzed in the aspect of dynamic models. The author sets the goals of the research proceeding from the working definition of the boundaries of the concept “universal” with reference to the relevant interdisciplinary knowledge about human species, proposes the main methodological principle of the dynamic approach to the identification of cultural universals and study of the ways they are embodied in specific contexts. The circulation of word meanings in the semantic field of modern Russian culture is supposed to be studied on the associative verbal network models obtained via psycholinguistic experiments in Asian regions of Russia and adjacent territories. The inconsistency of popular approaches to the selection of units of analysis in the investigation of cognitive processes and semantic universals is discussed. The paper raises the question of searching for units that are suitable for analyzing dynamic processes that are relevant for understanding the current state of the fluctuations in the semantic field of the multicultural Russian civilization. It is assumed that the associative verbal universals of the all-Russian language personality can be attested with the help of a comparative semi-automatic computer analysis of its semantic accentuations, which reflect the most significant shifts in motivational orientations. Such findings, together with other supporting data (if any) from other philological sources, may give valuable information for the assessment of stability and socio-cultural acceptability of thus discovered semantic accentuations in the light of their possible institutionalization.

Keywords: dynamic models for research of (verbal) culture, language universals and cultural processes, network models in linguistics

Bibliography:

Aski Janice M. A Usage-based analysis of multiple outcomes: the cognitive, phonetic, and social aspects of sound change. Folia Linguistica Historica. Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae. Jacek Fisiak (Ed.). Mouton, 2004, vol. 25, no. 1–2, pp. 41–67.

Baranov O. S. Russkiy tezaurus [Russian thesaurus], 2014. URL: http://thesaurus.wallst.ru/ (accessed: 26.01.2020).

Croft W. Typology and Universals. Cambridge University Press, 1993, 311 p.

Croft W., Cruse D. Alan. Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Karaulov Yu. N. Russkiy yazyk i yazykovaya lichnost’ [Russian language and linguistic personality]. Moscow, Nauka, 1987, 264 p.

Karaulov Yu. N. Obshchaya i russkaya ideografiya [General and Russian ideography]. S. G. Barkhudarov (Ed. in ch.). 2nd. ed. Moscow, Librokom, 2010, 360 p.

Koshelev A. D. Kognitivnyy analiz obshchechelovecheskikh kontseptov [Cognitive analysis of human concepts]. Moscow, Rukopisnye pamyatniki Drevney Rusi, 2015, 280 p.

Leont’ev A. N. Lektsii po obshchey psikhologii [Lectures on general psychology]. Moscow, Smysl, KDU, 2005, 511 p.

Loukachevitch N. V., Lashevich G., Gerasimova A. A., Ivanov V. V., Dobrov B. V. Creating Russian WordNet by Conversion. In: Proceedings of Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies Dialog. Moscow, 2016, pp. 405–415.

Lukashevich N. V. Tezaurusy v zadachakh informatsionnogo poiska [Thesauruses in information search tasks]. Moscow, MSU Publ., 2011, 396 p.

Lur’e S. V. Istoricheskaya etnologiya [Historical ethnology]. Moscow, Aspekt Press, 1998, 448 p.

Lur’e S. V. Obobshchennyy kul’turnyy stsenariy i funktsionirovanie sotsiokul’turnykh sistem [Generalized cultural script and functioning of socio-cultural systems]. The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology. 2010, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 152–167.

Pericliev V. Implicational phonological universals. Folia Linguistica. Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae. T. Fanego. (Ed.). Mouton De Gruyter, 2008, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 195–225.

Pericliev V. Formulating and misformulating language universals. Folia Linguistica. Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae. T. Fanego (Ed.). Mouton De Gruyter, 2012, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 211–232.

Prikladnaya i komp’yuternaya lingvistika [Applied and computer linguistics]. I. S. Nikolaev, O. V. Mitrenina, T. M. Lando (Eds). Moscow, LENAND, 2016, 320 p.

Shaposhnikova I. V. Dinamicheskie modeli v sotsiolingvistike i sotsiokommunikativnye ustanovki russkoy yazykovoy lichnosti v postsovetskiy period [Dynamic models in sociolinguistics and sociocommunication installations of the Russian linguistic personality in the post-Soviet period]. Science Journal of VolSU. Linguistics. 2019, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 24–38. DOI 10.15688/ jvolsu2.2019.3.2

SIBAS – Russkaya regional’naya assotsiativnaya baza dannykh. Sibir’ i Dal’niy Vostok – 2008–2020 [Russian Regional Associative Database. Siberia and Far East – 2008–2020]. I. V. Shaposhnikova, A. A. Romanenko (Comps). URL: http:// adictru.nsu.ru (accessed: 29.01.2020).

Sushko V. A. Istoriya vozniknoveniya i metodologiya setevogo analiza [The origins and methodology of network analysis]. The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology. 2018, vol. 21, iss. 1, pp. 161–181. DOI 10.31119/jssa.2018.21.1.7

Uspenskiy B. A. Izbrannye trudy. T. 3: Obshchee i slavyanskoe yazykoznanie [Selected works. Vol. 3: General and Slavic linguistics]. Moscow, LRC Publishing House , 1997, 800 p.

Ufimtseva N. V. Etnopsikholingvistika kak razdel teorii rechevoy deyatel’nosti [Ethnopsycholinguistics as a section of the theory of speech activity]. In: Bubnova I. A., Zykova I. V.,

Krasnykh V. V., Ufimtseva N. V. (Neo)psikholingvistika i (psikho)lingvokul’turologiya: novye nauki o cheloveke govoryashchem: Kollektivnaya monografiya [(Neo)psycholinguistics and (psycho)linguoculturology: new sciences about a man speaking: A collective monograph]. V. V. Krasnykh (Ed.). Moscow, Gnozis, 2017, pp. 21–96.

Van de Walle J. Roman Jakobson, cybernetics and information theory. A critical assessment. Folia Linguistica Historica. Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae. Hans Henrich Hock (Ed.). Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2008, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 87–123.

Vezhbitskaya A. Sopostavlenie kul’tur cherez posredstvo leksiki i pragmatiki [Comparison of cultures through vocabulary and pragmatics]. A. D. Shmeleva (Transl. from English). Moscow, LRC Publishing House, 2001, 272 p.

Yngve Victor H. From grammar to science: New foundations for general linguistics. Amsterdam, Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996, 351 p.

Zipf George K. The psycho-biology of language: an introduction to dynamic philology. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1935.