Open AccessPsycholinguistic study of the attitude of French and Russian students to Internationalization in Higher Education
Author(s) -
Michèle Debrenne,
K. S. Fomel
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
vestnik novosibirskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. seriâ: lingvistika i mežkulʹturnaâ kommunikaciâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1818-7935
DOI - 10.25205/1818-7935-2019-17-2-124-134
Subject(s) - lexicon , psycholinguistics , associative property , consciousness , linguistics , unconscious mind , internationalization , psychology , realization (probability) , subject (documents) , sociology , computer science , cognition , statistics , mathematics , neuroscience , library science , psychoanalysis , pure mathematics , economics , microeconomics , philosophy
The article describes the first stage of the realization of a complex psycholinguistic associative experiment in French and Russian. The aim of this experiment is to identify associative fields of words describing the attitude of young people towards multiculturalism, academic mobility and internationalization of higher education in target cities – Novosibirsk and Tomsk in Siberia (Russia), Montpellier and Bordeaux in France. The associative experiment will supplement sociological and other studies and will allow us to show the respondents’ naive views on various words describing certain aspects of students’ life. Associative experiments are considered to be a reliable method to identify conscious and unconscious meanings of words. Thus, the “language consciousness of the individual” (a concept introduced by Moscow School of Psycholinguistics, describing the language of an individual or a community from a psycholinguistic point of view) becomes visible to the external observer. The analysis of the most stable and repetitive reactions of a large number of participants makes it possible to infer the collective opinion. After processing the results of the experiment, a fragment of the associative network modeling the lexicon of French and Russian students in this subject area will be obtained.