A METAPHORICAL COMBINATION OF “TYUMEN MATRYOSHKA”: MODELLING LANGUAGE SPACE

Abstract

The research studies the semantic content of the metaphorical combination “Tyumen matryoshka”. A scientific problem is formulated: how exactly the perception of this metaphorical combination, culturally determined for the first group of informants, is fixed in the language consciousness of residents of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra, Tyumen region and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, as well as residents of other regions of the Russian Federation. As the research material, the researchers select statements from the web communities “Typical Matryoshka | Tyumen, KHMAO, YANAO” and “Typical Khanty-Mansiysk” on The Vkontakte Internet platform, published in 2019-2020 in Russian and including this metaphorical combination. The authors conduct a free association experiment. Comparison of the obtained data allows to represent the semantics of the metaphorical combination “Tyumen matryoshka”: it is a subject of the Russian Federation (147), having a territorial and socio-political identity (212), metaphorically associated with a matryoshka. The minimal context of the metaphorical combination also confirmed this conclusion: it consists of regions that are governed by governors, it has cities and residents. The perspective of the research is to scale the complex approach proposed in this paper to analyze other metaphorical combinations that are relevant only for residents of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Ugra (these primarily include models of the language category: “mistress of Ugra”, “crow’s day”, etc.). Russian speakers are considered to be interested in changing the language status of informants: migrants who have not yet received the status of “a native speaker of the Russian language”, foreign citizens for whom Russian is considered as a foreign language (basic level / elementary level, I certification level). It is also possible to narrow the quality requirements for informants: only students, only women or men, etc. This will allow to specify features of the language consciousness of residents who are part of the same group with the general picture of the world.