REFLECTION OF THE NATIONAL MENTALITY IN THE CORE OF THE SAKHA AND RUSSIAN LINGUISTIC CONSCIOUSNESS

• Main Author: Vasileva, Alina P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: St Petersburg State University 2023
• Subjects: linguistic consciousness; core of linguistic consciousness; national mentality; image of world; ethno-cultural specificity; associative dictionary; associative-verbal network; Arctic; Sakha; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.21638/2782-1943.2022.43; http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41543

At present, the study of the features of the linguistic consciousness of the speakers of the Sakha and Russian languages, who are in such a long close linguistic and cultural contact, is of particular interest. The paper attempts to study the reflection of the national mentality in the core of the linguistic consciousness of the Sakha and Russian language speakers. The core of the linguistic consciousness of the Sakha people was first identified by the author as a result of the analysis of materials from the Sakha associative dictionary (L. S. Zamorshchikova and A. A. Romanenko, 2012), created on the basis of mass associative experiments. The features of the perception of images of world by the Sakha and Russian consciousness are considered in the review of reactions and stimulus words — direct correspondences in the Sakha and Russian core. As a result of identifying and comparing quasi-equivalent words in the core of the linguistic consciousness, author presents the example of an analysis of the associative field of stimulus words kihi — man using to the method of “semantic gestalt” by Yu.N. Karaulov. Preliminary results suggest the trends in the reflection in the core of the linguistic consciousness of Sakha and Russian speakers of similar features that were created during a long time of cohabitation of peoples under the influence of the historical past on culture and language. However, the core of the linguistic consciousness of an individual people reflects the specificity of the “ethno-mental space of the people” created by the national mentality and spiritual culture, which can be traced in the associative-verbal network. This research is funded by grant No. 075-15-2021-616 from the Government of the Russian Federation for the project “Preservation of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development of the Arctic and Subarctic of the Russian Federation