Abstract
The article presents the part of results of a mixed free and directed associative experi-ment for the study of nominations of concepts Е-ПРОСТІР (E-SPACE) and КІБЕРПРОСТІР (CYBERSPACE) of the conceptual field “простір (space)” in the online mode. The purpose of the associative experiment is to confirm or refute the hypothesis that E-SPACE and CYBER-SPACE are identical subconcepts of CF «простір». The article presents the reasons for choosing an associative experiment and the methodology of the experiment. The material of the research was 86 questionnaires of Ukrainian-, English- and Russian-speaking respondents who are carriers or mediators of the Ukrainian conceptual picture of the world and 955 reactions were col- lected. On the basis of free and directed answers, the respondents' reactions to the E-ПРОСТІР and КІБЕРПРОСТІР stimulus, the nominative field of two concepts was singled out, and 7 microfields of the E-ПРОСТІР verbalization and 6 microfields of the КІБЕРПРОСТІР nom- ination were singled out. The top list of tokens of verbalizations of the concepts is presented in the article. The common conceptual сonstant based on the associative field of both concepts, and the status of subconcepts of the conceptual field «простір» was confirmed.
Highlights
In recent decades, new cells, sizes, and environments in the space have appeared that change the way we think about space
We aim to find in the concepts Е-ПРОСТІР and КІБЕРПРОСТІР the invariable essence, the common meaning of two different signs, a conceptual constant that we define as 1) as a common unshakable semantic base of the concept which remains in the variation of the names of the concept within one linguistic picture of the world; 2) the point of cultures contact, common denotation, fixed representation, the meaning of the concept common to the same concept within different linguistic pictures of the world, which is expressed in language by a token or tokens and reproduced in other comparable linguistic pictures of the world
A synonym for e-space was chosen as cyberspace by 35 respondent answering in Ukrainian out of 52, by 5 respondents answering in Russian, 3 in English while having Ukrainian as native, and by 8 repondents out of 12 respondents answered in Russian but mediators of Ukranian conceptual picture of the world (CPoW)
Summary
New cells, sizes, and environments in the space have appeared that change the way we think about space. The Internet, virtual reality are abstract dimensions limited only by human perception. Personal experience of spatial relations is changing and needs to be restored. Information, as a physical and philosophical concept, a measure of the heterogeneity of the distribution of matter and energy in space and time, a measure of change that accompanies all processes occurring in the world (Glushkov, 1986) is a key agent of change in spatial experience. “Forget Space-Time: Information May Create the Cosmos”: information is both a mean and a fixer of change in the world (Kuhn, 2015), just as language is. Physicists use numbers to describe space, and programmers use the same numbers as language to create and actualize it
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