Open AccessThe Problem of Describing the Gender Specificity of Word Semantics
Author(s) -
Ekaterina I. Kolesnikova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
voprosy psiholingvistiki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-6908
pISSN - 2077-5911
DOI - 10.30982/2077-5911-2021-47-1-140-147
Subject(s) - semantics (computer science) , associative property , vocabulary , meaning (existential) , word (group theory) , linguistics , psycholinguistics , computer science , natural language processing , psychology , artificial intelligence , cognition , mathematics , philosophy , neuroscience , pure mathematics , psychotherapist , programming language
The article discusses the theoretical problems of describing the semantics of a word, considers the possibility of using the data of a psycholinguistic experiment in describing the word meaning. The article considers gender characteristics of the specifics of the word semantics. The stimulus word meanings are interpreted according to the results of a psycholinguistic experiment as a result of semantic interpretation. It is through the analysis of the semantics of the word child that a model for describing the psycholinguistic meaning of the word is presented. An example of an entry in a psycholinguistic gender explanatory dictionary is presented, it is based on the results of a free associative experiment. Before the dictionary entry analysis, there are gender associative fields obtained from the results of the experiment. Male and female psycholinguistic meanings with generalized reaction semes are indicated. The dictionary entry of the gender dictionary is presented in the form of a comparative table with two columns - the psycholinguistic formulation of the female meaning and the psycholinguistic formulation of the male meaning. The results obtained indicate the presence of gender features of the specificity of the word semantics in the linguistic consciousness of men and women, the need to create a new type of vocabulary.