Analysis of Associative Field “Politeness” According to Project “Multilingual Associative Thesaurus of Politeness”
https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2022-11-5-176-193
Abstract
An analysis of the associative field “Politeness” based on the material of the project “Multilingual associative thesaurus of politeness” is presented in the article. The purpose of the study is to identify direct and indirect connections of the word politeness in the associative-verbal network of native English speakers. To achieve this goal, a free associative experiment was conducted with subsequent processing of the data obtained. Quantitative parameters were used to characterize the connections of the word politeness: the probability of activation of the combination “stimulus — reaction”, the probability of activation of the combination “reaction — stimulus”, the number of mediations, the index of the associative strength of mediation, the number of overlaps and the index of the associative strength of overlap. It has been experimentally established that the combination of politeness — manners has the highest probability of activation (18 %). The combination of manners — politeness turned out to be less relevant. The highest index of associative power of mediation was found for the combination politeness — good (0.0424), which has eleven intermediary words (behaviour, considerate, consideration, courteous, courtesy, decent, kind, manners, nice, smile, upbringing). The data of the free associative experiment indicate that the words politeness and courtesy are the closest in meaning. Eight common associates identified in the analysis of the “Politeness” and “Courtesy” fields are signs that determine the proximity of the psychologically relevant meaning of words.
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Supporting agencies: The reported study was funded by RFBR, project No. 20-012-00160 А
About the Author
N. I. Stepykin
Southwest State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nikolay I. Stepykin, PhD in Philology, Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Kursk
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Stepykin N.I. Analysis of Associative Field “Politeness” According to Project “Multilingual Associative Thesaurus of Politeness”. Nauchnyi dialog. 2022;11(5):176-193. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2022-11-5-176-193
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