O.V.Lexical item ‘bankrupt’ in the conceptual students worldview.

Abstract

This article presents a theoretical approach to the concept interpretation ‘worldview’ including cognitive and evaluative components. The purpose of the article is to identify features of the conceptual worldview of students on the comparison basis of lexical and associative meanings. The lexical item ‘BANCRUPT’ was selected according to criteria: contextual conditionality, frequency, information, presence in dictionaries and encyclopedias of different fields, relevance due to the conditions of today. About 1000 people at the age of 16–40 years have been involved into the associative experiment. Obtained results (1366 reactions) have been processed using statistical methods. The application of modeling allowed structuring the associative field defining core and periphery. Component analysis identifies comparable structural elements in the lexical meaning and associative field. The article dwells upon the psycholinguistic aspect of the economic lexical item ‘BANKRUPT’ in the conceptual worldview of students. The conceptual picture, an individualized view of the world, is presented in our minds. To identify peculiarities in the construction of conceptual worldview there have been used information about the structure of lexical and associative meanings. All reactions representing essential features form core and periphery – the associative meaning. Comparison of lexical and associative meanings has been made according to algorithm: defining main components in the lexeme structure using structural-semantic principle; calculation of core reactions because the lexicon core of the native speaker reflects the actual worldview; establishment total number of core reactions that are connected with vocabulary; determination the level of lexical and associative meanings’ approximation. The economic lexical item ‘BANKRUPT’ is on the edge of incomplete coincidence. This allows arguing that changes in reality reflected in core reactions of the associative field only with time will be reflected in the lexical meaning.