DYNAMIC MODELS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND SOCIO-COMMUNICATIVE ATTITUDES OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE PERSONALITY IN THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD
The article focuses on the range of scientific issues which have been studied by sociolinguists who apply dynamic models mainly to the material of the English language. Priority is given to network models and their predecessors – the study of relationships within semantic fields. The author’s obs...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Volgograd State University
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie |
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| Online Access: | https://l.jvolsu.com/index.php/en/archive-en/574-science-journal-of-volsu-linguistics-2019-vol-18-no-3/mainstream-issue-language-and-society-current-researches/1897-shaposhnikova-i-v-dynamic-models-in-sociolinguistics-and-socio-communicative-attitudes-of-the-russian-language-personality-in-the-post-soviet-period |
| Summary: | The article focuses on the range of scientific issues which have been studied by sociolinguists
who apply dynamic models mainly to the material of the English language. Priority is given to network models and
their predecessors – the study of relationships within semantic fields. The author’s observations of the circulation
of the meanings as they are reflected in the Russian associative-verbal network (hereafter AVN) provide supporting
evidence for the links between the dimensions of socio-communicative networks (strength, density, direction of
contacts) and the emergence of favorable conditions for socially significant language changes. Sociolinguists
discovered this type of correlation earlier using other methods on English materials. The instability of the social
environment of the post-Soviet world manifests itself (within three generations) in the dynamics of socio-
communicative attitudes concerning the ways people manipulate the bodies of language units. Thus attested
shifts in motivational orientations of the Russian language personality can be studied further on as potential
activators of socially conditioned language changes. The AVN materials allow scientists to consider the
psychological dimensions in their interpretations of sociolinguistically significant dynamics. The use of AVN
models in the light of actual (within 3-4 generations) diachrony opens up the prospect of developing associative
variantology as a new branch of experimental psychosociolinguistics; the study of the circulation of word meanings
in the semantic field of culture provides valuable empirical data for ethnopolitical sociolinguistics. |
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| ISSN: | 1998-9911 2409-1979 |