Core Values and Their Reflection in the Speech of the Ural City
In: Russian Foundation for Basic Research Journal. Humanities and social sciences, S. 97-106
ISSN: 2587-8956
The research outlines the findings of collaborative insights into the core values anchored in the linguistic consciousness of people living in the Urals and represented across diverse areas of speech in the cities of the Middle Urals. The purpose of the study is to understand the linguoaxiologic reality of the current times, interpret representatives of value concepts with a consolidating function.
To reach the target, the authors have practiced sociolinguistic monitoring helping to reveal value preferences among the student youth. Using the complementation principle, they have conducted a psycholinguistic experiment aimed at identifying nuclear and peripheral conceptual meanings anchored in the linguistic consciousness. The findings helped to conclude: the core of basic values is a system of interrelated conceptual meanings organized as a cognitive matrix.
Based on a meaningful interpretation of the materials used in the experiment, the authors managed to identify the increase in the divergent self-mentality of a subject with free consciousness focused on self-fulfillment and pursuing personal goals. However, at the emotional level, young people stay committed to the socio-centric traditions of the Russian culture: family interests (we-group) prevail over individual interests.
The linguoaxiologic analysis of municipal newspaper texts and methods of metalanguage study helped to describe the value aspects of provincial thinking: native speakers feel both as Uralians and Russians with preserved national, primarily, family traditions. The core value of the urban provincial community is little homeland — a key category of the Ural mentality. The mentally relevant mindsets are those related to common good.
Using conversation scripts reflecting the distinctive features of speech communication in the Urals, the authors divide the value-thematic and communicative-value text fragments, develop an algorithm for linguoaxiological commenting on oral dialogue.