Lexicographic Data Research Articles

Linguistic-Cultural Stereotype ‘Philologist’ in Individual Consciousness of Chinese Speakers

This article is dedicated to modeling the linguistic-cultural stereotype ‘philologist’ in the individual consciousness of Chinese language speakers. The modeling procedure adopted in the study involves identifying the constitutive features of the professional stereotype, elucidating its figurative and valuable characteristics. Lexicographic data, materials obtained during sociolinguistic experiments, and photo documents were utilized as the primary sources. The analysis leads to the conclusion that within the Chinese linguistic-cultural context, this stereotype is interpreted much more broadly by individuals than defined in dictionaries. The sphere of activities of a Chinese philologist extends beyond the realm of science, making room for teaching activities, as well as affiliations with disciplines requiring erudition or language knowledge. It is established that in the individual consciousness of the Chinese, philology is almost entirely associated with linguistics. A typical philologist is a person who has received specialized education and possesses profound knowledge in the fields of languages and literature. They are characterized by rich inner culture, erudition, intellect, modesty, self-discipline, industriousness, openness, spirituality, pursuit of truth, articulate and elegant speech, respect for traditions, a healthy lifestyle, orientation towards spiritual rather than material values. The evaluative component of the stereotype exhibits axiological polarity with a significant bias towards positive traits.

“View and Hide Definitions” of Racist Hate Speech: Ethnophaulisms in Google’s English Dictionary

This paper aims to foster debate about the language of racist hate speech in online English lexicography. For this purpose, it presents a study on the treatment of ethnophaulisms, or ethnic slurs, in “powered by Oxford Languages” Google’s English dictionary. The focus is indeed on the perspective of the general user of the Internet, in light of the connection between two facets of this digital age. The first one is the strong and growing tendency among Internet users to ‘google’ their language issues. The second one is the alarming increase in cases of hate speech online, most of which are based on ethnicity and nationality, according to reports by the United Nations. Consequently, the free and pervasive content of Google’s English dictionary represents a case in point to investigate whether and how online users are warned against the power of these hate words. A selected sample of 285 English ethnic slurs have been looked up in the dictionary and, if recorded, their entries have been scrutinised to identify lexicographic data regarding their semantic relevance and offensiveness. Findings show that the majority are included, they mostly present ethnicity-related senses, but less than half of the total are treated as ethnophaulisms. In this respect, the major dictionary markers indicating offensiveness are effect labels, predominantly alone or combined with definitions. Relative to their size, thus, ethnophaulisms in Google’s English dictionary are clearly described as offensive or derogatory expressions, thus making online users aware of their hurtful nature.

Der Effizienz- und Intelligenzbegriff in der Lexikographie und künstlichen Intelligenz: kann ChatGPT die lexikographische Textsorte nachbilden?

Efficiency and Intelligence in Lexicography and Artificial Intelli­gence: Can ChatGPT Recreate the Lexicographical Text Type? By means of pilot experiments for the language pair German–Galician, this paper examines the concept of efficiency and intelligence in lexicography and artificial intelligence (AI). The aim of the experiments is to gain empirically and statistically based insights into the lexicographical text type ”dictionary arti­cle” in the responses of ChatGPT-3.5, as well as into the lexicographical data on which this chatbot was trained. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used for this purpose. The analysis is based on the evaluation of the outputs of several sessions with the same prompt in ChatGPT-3.5. On the one hand, the algorithmic performance of intelligent systems is evaluated in comparison with data from lexicographical works; on the other hand, the ChatGPT data supplied is analysed using specific text passages of the aforementioned lexicographical text type. The results of this study not only help to evaluate the efficiency of this chatbot regarding the creation of dictionary articles, but also to delve deeper into the concept of intelligence, the thought processes and the actions to be carried out in both disciplines. Keywords: lexicography, AI, ChatGTP-3.5, dictionary article, concept of efficiency, concept of intelligence, lexicographical text type, training data, lexicographical data

THE VERBALISED CONCEPT ‘CHALLENGE’ IN FUNCTIONALLY DEFINED VARIETIES OF ENGLISH: TERMINOLOGISATION VS. METAPHORISATION

The article examines the interaction of the functional-communicative and cognitive parameters in conceptualisation of broad-meaning lexemes with special reference to the verbalised concept ‘CHALLENGE’. The target concept has been chosen on account of its being currently in great demand, which is evidenced by a considerable number of its lexical manifestations in most representative corpora of English. The aim of the research is to identify the types of content in concept development based on the scope of represented phenomena in the functional styles of fiction and journalism. Depending on the speaker’s (writer’s) communicative purport, the vector in categorisation of reality may change, which leads to a different interpretation of the linguistic means used. Considering the lexicographic data as well as the “big” corpus data we focus on the description of how the target concept is viewed on the lexicographic and discursive levels. The research is carried out within the framework of cognitive corpus linguistics, which enables us to identify types of situations and events (frames) that represent the distributional profile of the target lexeme. The conceptual-linguistic analysis revealed that the functional style of journalism contributes to the lexeme’s specification and terminologisation, while in the functional style of fiction metaphorisation increases.

Multilingualism in Teressa Island: performance and practice

ABSTRACTLabeling of a code as a language or dialect is a process that involves multiple stakeholders. Fundamentally, the notions of language and dialect are not linguistic but ideological constructs. Academic and political definitions often overlap, but can also potentially be at odds with each other. This paper attempts to explore this dilemma by looking at linguistic and ethnographic data from two Nicobari codes in Central Nicobar; namely Lurö and Sanenyö. These codes have been labeled as part of a dialect chain based on lexicographic data as well as computational phylogenetic analyses. However, the speakers claim that these codes are distinct languages and that Lurö is not understood or spoken by Sanenyö speakers. Adding to this, ethnographic observations made during in-situ fieldwork on Teressa Island where both codes are spoken, paints a different picture and complicates the matter. It would seem that language labels, ways of speaking and meta-linguistic commentary are creatively employed by the speakers in order to negotiate with ongoing transformations in the power hierarchies on the island. The paper will analyze language structure, linguistic practices and language ideologies to understand how linguistic differentiation is produced and the role it plays in the (re)creation of socio-political formulations.

Lexical Representation of Olfactory Semiotics in Worldview of Yakut Language

The article is devoted to the exploration of additional semiotic meanings developed by olfactory perceptual lexicon in the Yakut language. The study analyzes lexicographic data on the vocabulary of olfactory perception, as well as the mechanisms of creating a cognitive-semiotic space of a text using this lexicon based on N. A. Lugynov’s work “Ulatyy keme” (“Time of Change”). Smell is consider ed by the authors as a cognitive-linguistic category, representing in the Yakut language not only the physiological aspect of sensory interaction with the world, but also a broad linguistic and cultural context that expresses the sign function of social, everyday, aesthetic, etc. status. The data from translating and explanatory dictionaries of the Yakut language were processed using classical methods of analyzing dictionary definitions, taking into account the elements of distribution of the studied lexical units. As a result of the study, it was established that the perceptual lexicon of olfactory perception, which allows describing smells as signs-indexes in the system of the Yakut language, implements an additional cognitivesemiotic function of signs-symbols in artistic discourse, revealing the internal state of a person, their socio-domestic relationships in society, attitude towards moral and ethical values and life.

Structuring a Collection of Lexicographic Data for Different User and Usage Situations

According to Fuertes-Olivera and Tarp (2020), lexicography is being currently shaped by three related tendencies: (a) the increasing use of disruptive technologies; (b) the necessity of finding new business models that can finance new lexicographic projects; and (c) the existence of growing competition from other information sources, e.g. Google. These trends have a particular influence on specialized dictionaries, defined here as tools that cover areas outside general cultural knowledge and its corresponding Language for General Purpose (LGP). This article adopts the view that lexicographers can deal with the abovementioned tendencies by preparing structured collec­tions of lexicographic data with details that can be easily converted into information and stored in DWSs that allow multiple combinations and possible retrievals. This option is suitable for the tenden­cies, as it uses adequate technologies, e.g. ways of profiling or individualizing searches, defends a new business model based on the creation of lexicographic data that can feed many dif­ferent tools, e.g. Write Assistant (Fuertes-Olivera and Tarp 2020), and offers better and more precise information than that of Google and other information tools. Keywords: lexicographic data, technology, specialized language, spe­cial­ized lexicography, e-lexicography

Eppur si muove: Lexicography is Becoming Intelligent

The paper focuses on an ongoing R&D project which the author is conducting together with Spanish lexicographers as well as computer scientists from a high-tech company specialized in online dictionaries and language services. The objective is to develop an AI-powered Spanish writing assistant for both native and non-native writers and learners. After briefly dis­cussing the current experiences with digital writing assistants, the paper will detail the concrete project, where the lexicographers' task is, on the one hand, to contribute to the training of the underlying language model, and on the other hand, to outline a model for good communication between the tool and its users. Based on a study of practice in existing writing assistants, the paper will then formulate a set of principles for user communication that will be implemented in the writing assistant. The article gives examples of how this implementation takes place, what new challenges it poses, and how the writing assistant will eventually work. Finally, it discusses the lexicographers' new tasks and outlines some perspectives for future work. Keywords: writing assistants, user communication, lexicographical con­textualization, integrated dictionaries, glosses, lexicographical data of a new type, incidental learning, intentional learning, lemma-centred lexicographical databases, problem-centred lexicographical databases

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF THE SYNONYMS OF THE CONCEPT «PANDEMIC»

The article is devoted to the analysis of synonyms of the concept «pandemic». A special attention is focused on defining of synonyms for the key lexeme of the concept «pandemic» on the basis of lexicographic sources. The study of any con- cept is carried out in accordance with its structural composition, which includes the description of conceptual, image and value components. The analysis of the conceptual component of the concept is conducted through the study of its direct nomination, definition, as well as by means of research of the synonyms of the key lexeme, the analysis of which contributes to the reproduction of additional conceptual features that are not represented in the key lexeme definitions. The main lexical units with synonymous meanings for the name of the con- cept «pandemic» were identified. The definitional analysis of the synonymous lexemes is based on the lexicographical data obtained from generic and medi- cal dictionaries. The study of medical terminology presented in the definitions of medical dictionaries enabled identification of the dominant semes for the key lexeme, which reveal additional conceptual features. Based on the analysis of the definitions of lexemes of the synonymous rows of the concept «pandemic», the following additional conceptual features of the concept «pandemic» have been selected: presence of a disease caused by a virus, bacteria and other microorganisms and characterized by specific signs and symp- toms; the severity of the disease; localization of the disease (body, mind); a sud- den occurrence; pathogenic nature; high contagiousness; duration; seasonality; ways of transmission (airborne, contact, through blood, sexual, prenatal, wound, food); methods of diagnosis of the disease (collection of anamnesis for the study of the disease, its laboratory and radiographic findings); reduction, impairment of human vital functions.

Kalmyk meteorological vocabulary of the off-season in comparison with closely related languages

Kalmyk meteorological vocabulary related to lifestyle, environment and mentality belongs to the primordial stratum, as in other closely related languages of the Altai family. The commonality of the grammatical foundations of this vocabulary is confirmed by lexicographic data recorded in old Mongolian, Kalmyk and Turkic sources. The object of the study is nominative units (words, phrases and phraseological units) in the Kalmyk language, denoting the weather phenomena of the off-season. Special attention is paid to the meteorological vocabulary of the off-season of the autumn-winter intermediate period. The relevance of this study is related to the study of meteorological vocabulary in the Kalmyk language, the identification of the features of the linguistic picture of the world of the people as a whole and its influence on vocabulary. The linguistic and cultural analysis of meteorological vocabulary makes it possible to consider the life and culture of the Kalmyk people. This article uses a descriptive method, a comparative method, a method of linguistic and cultural analysis of lexical units. The meteorological vocabulary of the off-season is considered in this article taking into account the modern linguistic and cultural orientation and is presented in the aspect of an interdisciplinary category: a) the role of this phenomenon in human life (natural landmarks and human locations); b) the vocabulary of the off-season and related human economic activity; c) the comparative and evaluative feature of the use of this vocabulary in oral and written samples in the languages under consideration. The Kalmyk meteorological vocabulary of the off-season is an independent integral category that is present in all Mongolian and Turkic languages, recorded in old-written sources and has retained its original meaning in the modern Kalmyk language. This vocabulary reflects the peculiarities of the linguistic picture of the world and worldview, the specifics of the way of life and the inner world of the Kalmyks and is universal for other closely related peoples belonging to the Altai linguistic community.

Текстовая экспликация концепта «Жестокость» в повести Павла Нилина

The text explication of the key and title concept of Pavel Nilin’s novel Cruelty is considered in the article. The place of this mental formation in the linguistic and cognitive picture of the world is very important, despite the differences in the approaches of different scientists to its understanding. Cruelty is equated with aggression and violence in most social sciences (psychology, philosophy, sociology). Philological studies consider the phenomenon of cruelty as a literary motif or concept and its verbalization in the paradigm of texts which are created in different epochs. The interpretation of the concept field “Cruelty” is realized in close connection with the field “Mercy”. This connection has a significant basis in the Russian linguistic and cognitive picture of the world and is confirmed by lexicographic data. Numerous indications of the existence of the concept of “Cruelty” and direct/indirect data indicating the concept of “Mercy” are contained in the text, which has become the subject of analysis of this article. Mercy as one of the fundamental Christian moral qualities and virtues, the manifestation of love and truth is opposed to lies and betrayal, which are components of the concept sphere “Sin”, which, in turn, verbalizes the hyperconcept “Darkness”. The speech characteristics of the characters, text markers and contexts are saturated with lexical components that verbalize these conceptual fields. At the same time, the name of the concept “cruelty/ cruel” is practically not used. The comprehension of revolutionary events during the thaw period demonstrates the uniqueness of the semantic content of the concept in the texts of this author. This historical period forms in the author’s understanding the semantic component “lies”, which becomes relevant for the texts of the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods.

German Names for Merels

Abstract Merels (also called Nine Men‘s Morris) comprises a family of traditional board games with ancient roots. Between medieval and modern times, merels saw an interesting onomasiological shift: Several European languages took up a new name for the game. This new name is sometimes claimed to have originated in German, but the details surrounding this naming practice are still unclear. There are mainly two German groups of names for this game, the older names based on the number 9 (Neunstein, Neunten Stein, Neunermal etc.) and the younger based on the German word for “mill” (Mühle, Mühlspiel, Mühleziehen etc.). Relying on philological evidence (partly pulled from lexicographical data) this paper outlines the evolution of German terms for merels, focusing on the naming practices from the 15th to 17th century. Possible motivations of the name Mühle are discussed.

Диахронный анализ философского термина “mōrālitās”

The paper explores the origin and semantic derivation of Latin philosophic term “mōrālitās” (“morality”), keeping in mind its generalizing and object-giving function in modern moral philosophy, which is obvious in its derivates in European languages. The semantic derivation of “mōrālitās” is being examined by means of comparative analysis of lexicographical data in three dictionary groups: that of the Late Latin (when the word “mōrālitās” first occurs), of the Medieval Latin (when it enters philosophical lexicon) and that of Early Modern Latin (when the term became widespread and got its modern meaning). To cover the lack of lexicographical information in the latter two groups of dictionaries the study uses Google Books full-text search, which statistically proves, that the term gained popularity only in the first half of 17th century and also gives important clues on the development of its meaning in late scholasticism. In conclusion, it is stated, that semantic derivation of the term in Late, Medieval and Early Modern Latin shares the same common guidelines, namely steady synonymic ties with emerging substantive forms of the adjective “mōrālis” (moral) and term phrases, formed with “mōrālis” and “mōs” (habit, custom). As a result of such a derivation “mōrālitās” came to be highly polysemic term, denoting the very quality of the free and conscious action, its moral worth and the rules to estimate the worth, and the philosophical discipline for doing that, and the subject of this discipline in the same time.

Термины кровного родства в татарском и английском языках: сопоставительный анализ (на материале лексикографических источников)

Based on a comparative analysis of kinship terms in the Tatar and English languages, the research aims to identify their general and specific semantic-structural characteristics. The degree of kinship and gender differences serve as important criteria in the naming of relatives; the seme “age” is also widely represented in the semantic structure of the terms, which is particularly pronounced primarily in Tatar terms. The scientific novelty of the paper lies in conducting a comparative study of kinship terms in the aspect of their complete and correct lexicographic representation in the languages with different structures, such as Tatar and English. As a result of studying kinship terms in the two languages, based on lexicographic data, the author has revealed similarities and differences in the naming of persons who are related, has shed light on the hyper-hyponymic relationships between such terms. The research findings have made it possible to make a more complete lexicographic description of the terms as well as to identify lexical and semantic lacunae and fill in such gaps in the author’s bilingual Tatar-English dictionary with unrecorded units or separate meanings. Consideration of the corpus of terms with the seme “a relative” and their derivatives from the standpoint of a productive model of term formation served as a basis for revealing their word-formation potential to a fuller extent.

Металексикография, культура и лексикультура: структура и категории описания (на материале русского, английского, немецкого, французского и малагасийского языков)

The aim of the study is to identify the structural and descriptive features of the modern lexicographic cluster. The scientific novelty of the paper lies in a comprehensive identification of metalexicographic formats for the description of modern lexicographic science in line with correlations with the “maternal” culture, both at the level of vocabulary and in the space of a complete utterance. In addition, the study is novel in that it introduces into active scientific use the terms “culture gap”, “linguocultural tensor” in order to clarify the conceptual apparatus and provide a clearer semantic structuring of the term system of metalexicography, language theory and communication theory. One of the main epistemological aspects of the work is represented by the development of the problems of lexicultural interpretation of lexicographic space as a semiotic whole and value, that is, the issues of searching for the foundations of multicultural identity, which can be resolved one way or another by referring to the language of dictionaries of various types. An important point of the study is the discovery of correlations between the conceptual and epistemic dimensions of metalexicographic knowledge, in other words, between linguistic and conceptual analysis of vocabulary discourse in line with the interpretative-semiological approach. The results showed the importance of further development of the metalexicographic paradigm in line with the constantly updated philological knowledge and also made it possible to discover the information about the collective elements of the worldview and cognition of the linguoculturological community and national-cultural identity at the level of philological knowledge functioning. The data obtained allowed the researchers to identify a number of important elements of the linguosemiotic impact on the thinking of a consumer of dictionary information necessary to overcome critical and stressful situations associated with the accelerated dynamics of the development of high-tech lexicographic data formats on the path of creating new metalexicographic axiology in order to optimise cognition and communication models.

ENGLISH CONCEPT LORD: SECULAR, RELIGIOUS AND ARTISTIC ASPECTS OF STUDY

The article presents an analysis of the linguocultural and cultural-historical aspects of the functioning and verbalization of the English concept LORD. Our research is based on the study of the semantic content of the concept presented in its key nomination lord. The purpose of our study was to identify the main factors and directions of the development of the concept. The object of the study is the nature and principles of the increase in the concept, its transformation under the influence of cultural and historical factors, ideological and artistic ideas, as well as the actual linguistic principles of transformations of the lexical unit lord representing it. The subject of the study is lexicographic data, semantic characteristics of the lexeme lord. By studying the functioning of the lexeme representing the concept in the secular, religious and artistic linguo-cultural planes and the corresponding semantic transformations on the basis of the analyzed lexicographic sources, the nominative field of the English-language concept LORD is modeled. During the study, we came to the following results. The lexeme lord is the central term of the cultural concept LORD — the lord, the ruler and master, the vicegerent of God on earth or God Himself. The considered concept is a multi-tiered system that covers the attitude of the representatives of the English linguistic community to the vital spheres of their existence: religious, social class or artistic and figurative affiliation. The semantic content of the lexeme has expanded over the centuries, and the lexeme began to serve as a nomination in two different planes of social models of the world: religious and secular. All pre-Christian accumulation and all chronologically coinciding pre-Christian representations of the concept act as the basic charge for the embodiment of the Christian idea of denoting God, which, since the 12th century, has borrowed the tradition of treating God as the Lord, and to the lords as the Lord’s vicars on earth. The plane of the ideological priority meaning of this lexeme in the Christian picture of the world as an appeal to the Lord, universal for European cultures, remains only one “pole” of the concept consideration. The second meaning, which is included in the nuclear zone of the nominative field of the key lexeme, denoting the concept, incorporates a purely national, English concept. This semantic part of the concept is due to the sphere of secular ideas, which are more mundane in the conceptual and linguistic pictures of the world. This meaning acts as an independent nuclear subsphere containing a reference to a specific, ethnically dependent reality — a courtesy title, an ethnic identifier. Conclusions: Due to its conceptual «insecurity», the concept LORD is far from being a stable system. The process of conceptualization of its key nomination lord continues for objective reasons — the influence of new cultural trends, including the heroes of popular books and cinema, political transformations, leading figures who have and receive the title of lord.

Intertextual inclusions from a bard song as a phenomenon of implication in newspaper speech

The article considers reduction as a way to transform quotes and winged expressions from bard songs. The material for the study was socio-political publications with fragments of lyrics by B.Okudzhava, V.Vysotsky, A.Galich, Yu.Vizbor, Yu.Kukin. The article presents different ways of variant formation based on the reduction of the component composition of statements, as well as semantic-stylistic and lexical-grammatical characteristics of the reduction of quotations and popular expressions from song texts are given. It has been established that the reduction of quotes and winged expressions from bard songs is one of the productive types of their modification in the press, characterized by wide variability. Different types of reduction of the component composition are distinguished reduction of the beginning and end of the phrase, contraction, isolation of key components. It is determined that reduction leads to a semantic renewal of the phrase, which is expressed in a shift of the semantic center or a change in the meaning of the statement. Implicit modifications of phrases presented in headings are often characterized by the semantics of incompleteness. Lexico-grammatical markers of incompleteness are function words, pronouns, syntactic extenders, and ellipsis. The implicational isolation was subjected to a separate consideration. The result of this type of reduction in the material under consideration was the formation of phrasemes of substantive-adjective, substantive-substantive and verb-substantive types. The isolation of phrasemes is accompanied by grammatical variation of components, which is the result of adaptation to a new syntactic environment. In addition, the isolation may be accompanied by a change in the internal syntactic links between the components. The research allows to clarify the lexicographic data and enhance the understanding of the bard song as a source of logoepisthems and precedent phenomena in modern language practice

Some Notions of the Concepts of ‘Fear’ and ‘Laughter’ in Selected Works of Dostoevsky: Challenges and Evocations …

ABSTRACT Dostoevsky is often perceived as being both gloomy and unsociable, and, indeed, there are many justifiable reasons for this view of the writer. For example, many deaths occur throughout his works but there are also many other events described which may make Dostoevsky’s readers experience fear – namely the actual discovery of fear itself. This present article attempts to challenge such a view of Dostoevsky and his creative works, by using some lexicographical data, including experimental ones, and thereby to show that the concept of ‘laughter’ in Dostoevsky's thesaurus occupies no less an important place than does the concept of ‘fear’. Moreover, these notions are often interrelated as will be shown by the overlapping of the corresponding semantic fields in the textual space of two of Dostoevsky's major novels, namely in Crime and Punishment and in The Demons.

ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТАЛЬНОЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ ТРАКТОВОК КРАСНОГО ЦВЕТА В БРИТАНСКОЙ И АМЕРИКАНСКОЙ ЛИНГВОКУЛЬТУРЕ (по материалам опроса искусственных билингвов)

The article presents the results of an experimental study on the interpretations of the colour red in British and American linguocultures, which was carried out on the material of the rock discourse of these linguocultures and consisted of three stages: preparatory; experimental; final. The goal was to establish whether the psychophysical, linguocultural and lexicographic data about this color in the British and American linguocultures, identified at the preparatory stage, correspond to the actual perception and interpretation of the red color by speakers of English as a second language. According to the results of the first block of the experimental stage (open question), the respondents' answers were divided into two groups – associative definitions and metaphorical associations. Most of them correspond to the data of the preparatory stage. In the second part of this stage, all of the three interpretations of red (“energy”, “revolution / radicalism”, “danger”), identified at the preparatory stage, were successfully established by the respondents when analyzing the proposed covers of British and American rock discourse. For each of the six studied rock covers, it was possible to establish additional interpretations of red. In the third part of the experimental stage (closed question), all interpretations of the color red, determined at the preparatory stage with the help of psychophysical, linguocultural and lexicographic data, were somehow chosen by the respondents, which confirmed their relevance in relation to the studied linguocultures.

Сопоставление базовой ценности «родина» в немецкой и русской лингвокультурах

The aim of the study is to compare the “homeland” value in German and Russian linguocultures. The paper determines the content of the lexemes “Heimat” and «родина» (homeland) as an invariant of the same basic value. Subsequently, the content of the lexemes is compared with the psychologically relevant content of the basic values of “Heimat” and «родина», which in turn is identified based on the analysis of data from the author’s free association experiment involving native speakers of German and Russian linguocultures aged 17-23. Scientific novelty lies in confirming the hypothesis that the “homeland” value belongs to the rank of basic values, in determining differences in the content of the “homeland” value in German and Russian linguocultures, as well as in the method of processing the material: comparing experimental data of the free association experiment and lexicographic data. It is important to note that the study is conducted on the basis of empirical material and, therefore, its findings are reliable and relevant. As a result, it is the first time that a difference in the content of the value under consideration has been determined: for Russians, “homeland” is always associated with the place where they were born and spent their childhood; for Germans, a new “homeland” may appear, which is associated with extralinguistic factors.