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International Journal of Science Annals, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2021
рrint ISSN: 2617-2682; online ISSN: 2707-3637; DOI:10.26697/ijsa

direction (Kobzieva et al., 2019). marriage), 13% – are in a registered civil marriage, 27%
In our ludic competence coaching sessions describing – are not in a relationship.
the behaviour pattern of a ludic position rest upon its CAE allows to focus on the peripheral components and
psychological and psycholinguistic structure. evaluativity of the stimulus word in question, while the
Identifying the specific psycholinguistic structure free experiment foregrounds the brightest components
implies carrying out psycholinguistic experiments. The of meaning. When formulating the instructions for the
results of the psycholinguistic experiment allow to CAE in terms of the parametric concept of
consider: gender-specific differences in the perception Sternin (2011), we firstly identified the main semantic
of the stimulus flirting, emotional and evaluative features of the sense class of lexis to which our stimulus
attitude to it, relevant meanings of flirting for the “flirting person” belongs.
linguistic consciousness of the Russian-speaking The parametric concept of meaning assumes that the
population of Ukraine, etc. The psycholinguistic study meaning is built from certain semantic features and
of concept flirting conducted by Gordienko- different semantic types of lexis should have different
Mytrofanova et al., (2021a) made it possible to broaden set of these features. Defining the semantic features for
both its meaning due to the semantic components a psycholinguistic experiment with certain semantic
actualized in speech acts and partly the behaviour classes of lexis requires special research. Therefore, we
pattern of the corresponding ludic position – Diplomat used the semantics of the names of persons with
(Kobzieva et al., 2019). semantic features described in the work of Sternin
We “describe” this behaviour pattern of the ludic “Psycholinguistic meaning of a word and its
position Diplomat in the context of parametric concept description” (Sternin, 2011, p. 132–139), for example:
of the meaning for the first time. the bearer of the feature, appearance, age, experience,
Inventory of semantic features of lexemes of the etc.
language is a relevant psycholinguistic problem. The principal semantic parameters relevant to
The aim of the study. In the context of parametric communication were obtained in the course of
concept of meaning, to identify on the basis of applied describing the meanings of Russian nouns in Sternin’s
psycholinguistic research the semantic components of work “The lexical meaning of word in speech”
the stimulus “flirting person”, which are actualized in (Sternin, 1985).
the speech acts of Russian-speaking inhabitants of For the sake of convenience, all semantic features are
Ukraine. given within the framework of the corresponding
In accordance with the purpose the following research semantic aspects (for example, biological aspect,
tasks were determined: temporal aspect, social and cultural aspect, etc.). As for
- to develop instructions for a controlled association emic specifiers, they are given along with the
experiment (CAE) based on the semantic features corresponding semantic features if this feature is closed.
relevant to the semantics of “flirting person”; If the feature is open, semantic specifiers are not given,
- to present the main strategies and methods of since in this case their number is unlimited (Sternin,
distributing the obtained associates for the semantic 2011, p. 135). For example, such a semantic aspect as
features into the semantic clusters. biological (aspect) includes four semantic features:
1) demand for food: high, low; 2) biological state;
Materials and Methods 3) attitude to the opposite gender; 4) health: healthy,
The method of the conducted research was a unhealthy. In the biological aspect we have selected the
psycholinguistic experiment, whose main stage was the second and third semantic features. We give in brackets
CAE with the stimulus “flirting person”. Additional a number of a semantic feature according to Sternin’s
methods included a survey (to clarify the results of the classification (Sternin, 2011, p. 135) and a semantic
CAE), questionnaires (to clarify the characteristics of feature we that have added is given with number and
the sample). Frequency and cluster analysis were used asterisk. The question itself is highlighted in capital
as mathematical and statistical methods for analyzing letters, as it is given in the instructions; the number of
the research results, which made it possible to identify the question corresponds to the number in the
trends in distribution of associations in the experimental instruction, which is be given below.
group. Biological aspect:
The CAE with the stimulus “flirting person” was carried 2. What is the person’s gender? (biological gender:
out in writing. According to the instructions, the male, female).
respondents should indicate gender, age, 13. What is the person’s attitude to the opposite gender?
education/specialty, marital status and write the first (attitude to the opposite gender).
word that comes into mind when answering each 14. What is the person’s attitude to the same gender?
question (semantic feature). (attitude to the same gender).
The total number of respondents who took part in the Thus, depending on the semantics of a particular word,
experiment was 215 young people (age 21-35), 112 suitable semantic features are selected for posing a
females and 103 males. “By education”: 44% – were question and formulating the instructions.
undergraduates, 35% – had a university degree, 9% – At the initial stage the formulation procedure for the
completed secondary school; “by marital status”: 60% – instructions for the CAE with the stimulus “flirting
were in a marriage-like relationship (unregistered person” also implied systematization and generalization

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