INTERCULTURAL FEATURES OF THE REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT OF «OLD AGE» IN THE LANGUAGE PICTURE OF THE MODERN WORLD

ABSTRACT Introduction. The article presents the results of intercultural analysis of the problem of cognitive-semantic modelling of the subjective image of old age in the modern sociocultural space. The work was carried out within the framework of the author's research project aimed at identifying trends in the conceptualization of age periods of the genesis of being in the linguistic consciousness of respondents of different age and sociocultural groups. The purpose of this article was to identify the cross-cultural features of the speech-mental objectification of the concept «Old age» in the linguistic picture of the modern information world. The subject of this research gains special relevance in the context of the demographic aging of humanity. Research Methods. The psycholinguistic content of the research determined the use of the method of conceptual analysis of vocabulary definitions to obtain an initial list of integrated meanings of the basic level of the concept «Old age». The directed associative experiment, content analysis and semantic-interpretive analysis of the data enabled to outline the associative field of the lexeme-stimulus indicating the absolute frequency of each associate in the plane of cross-cultural dimension. The sample was represented by respondents of different ages (from 17 to 93 years old) living in countries with different levels of socio-cultural and economic protection of aging (in Ukraine, USA, Switzerland). Results of the research. Based on the results of the study of 1845 associative responses-reactions and text fragments of respondents, the units of quantification of the semantic field of the concept under study were identified: the core (physiological segment of meanings) and the peripheral part (socio-cultural and psychological segments of meanings). It was proved that the socio-cultural continuum of designating the phenomenology of old age in the intercultural dimension of the linguistic picture of the world simulates a special semantic zone of the linguistic consciousness of an individual. Conclusions. It has been statistically confirmed that the main transformations of the subjective image of old age in the semantic space of a linguistic personality occur in the segment of sociocultural markers, which, in general, determines the variable strategies of personality aging. The obtained results significantly supplement the materials presented by the scientific community on cross-cultural trends in the conceptualization of indicators of human aging in modern society.

摘要
引言。本文呈现了现代社会文化空间中老年主观意象的认知语义建模问题的跨文化分析成果。本研究依托作者的科研项目开展，该项目旨在挖掘不同年龄与社会文化群体的受访对象语言意识中，存在生成的年龄阶段的概念化趋势。本文的研究目标为：识别现代信息世界的语言图景中，“老年”（Old age）这一概念的言语-心理客体化的跨文化特征。在人类人口老龄化的时代背景下，本研究议题具有特殊的现实意义。

研究方法。本研究的心理语言学属性决定了需采用词汇定义概念分析法，以获取“老年”这一概念基础层级整合意义的初始列表。通过定向联想实验、内容分析以及数据的语义阐释分析，得以勾勒出刺激词的联想场，该场域可呈现跨文化维度下每个联想项的绝对出现频次。研究样本涵盖来自不同社会文化与经济养老保障水平国家的受访对象，年龄跨度为17至93岁，分别来自乌克兰、美国与瑞士。

研究结果。基于对1845份联想应答数据与受访对象文本片段的分析，本研究确定了所探讨概念的语义场量化单元：核心（意义的生理维度）与外围部分（意义的社会文化与心理维度）。研究证实，在语言世界图景的跨文化维度中，指代老年现象的社会文化连续体构建了个体语言意识中的特殊语义区域。

结论。经统计学验证，语言个体语义空间内的老年主观意象的主要转变，发生于社会文化标记维度，这一发现总体上决定了个体衰老的可变策略。本研究所得成果可有效补充科学界已发表的、关于现代社会人类衰老指标概念化跨文化趋势的相关研究资料。