PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITY OF DIVINATION SEMANTICS: EXPERIMENTAL DATA
The article is devoted to the psycholinguistic study of the representation of images-representations associated with the semantics of one of the linguistic and cultural phenomena of the traditional (archaic) worldview in the language consciousness of urban native speakers. Using an experimental method of direct interpretation, the author reveals the psychological reality of the meaning of the word "divination" in the minds of modern native speakers. The meanings relevant to the speaker, including personal ones, and the degree of relevance of ethno-cultural connotations fixed in the semantic structure of the word "divination" are determined. The corpus of interpretations obtained in the course of the experiment allowed us to detect different strategies of semantics of the analyzed word by respondents in terms of the language technique they use (established verbal associations), as well as factors that determine the dynamic processes in the semantic structure of the word.