Associative Verbal Network of the Conceptual Domain БІДА (MISERY) in Ukrainian

Abstract

This paper presents a comprehensive study of the associative verbal network of the conceptual domain БІДА (MISERY) in the Ukrainian language. The associative test is carried out in order to obtain statistical and quantitative data necessary for modeling the conceptual domain БІДА (MISERY) and establishing the areas of its intersection with the related concepts of ENVY and GREED. Determining the ‘associative’ distance between the concepts (the index of mutual associative relation) and visualizing the test results we identify typologically common and distinct plots within the associative verbal network. The analysis of collocations in the GRAC corpus allowed us to identify associative statistical patterns of their modeling using the latest quantitative, cognitive and ethnosemiotic methods, and describe the taxonomy of the frames. Furthermore, applying Mutual Information score we revealed the ranges of intersection, gradation, opposition, areas of relative and absolute frequency, typicality, uniqueness, gender markedness, etc., of the responses to the stimulus БІДА (MISERY)