CHANGE OF CAUSES OF THE MENTAL SCENARIO OF ARROGANT ATTITUDE / BEHAVIOR IN THE DIACHRONICAL CONTEXT AS THE REFLECTION OF CHANGE IN VALUE SYSTEM OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIETY

Abstract

The article describes changes of one of the elements of the mental scenario of arrogant attitude / behavior, i.e. the causes of such attitude, analyzed within the period from the 18th century up to the present day. The change of the causes of the socially important phenomenon of “arrogance” reflects the change in the system of values of the Russian society. On the basis of contexts from the National Corpus of the Russian Language, the author analyzes the main tendencies that characterize the causes of arrogant attitude / behavior: “social status” (namely, noble birth and belonging to the elite), “power”, “wealth”, “living in a city (capital city)”, “cleverness”, “age”, “gender”, their appearance, disappearance and transformations during different periods of the Russian history. The author draws conclusions on the change of value system of the Russian society during the analyzed period.