Semantic Subgroup Research Articles

Religious feelings in early and late adulthood

ABSTRACT The aim of the study was to compare different phases of adulthood in terms of religious feelings. To achieve this objective, semantic subgroups derived from expressions of religious feelings encompassed positive and negative qualities, situational context, and regulatory strategies. This process was rooted in Walesa’s cognitive-developmental theory of integral religious development. Under positive qualities, the subcategories included reflexivity, multiple feelings, trust, joy, and love. Negative qualities yielded subcategories of anger, reflexivity, lack of negative feelings, transformation, grief, and multiple feelings. The situational context subcategory was defined by intellectual evaluation, religious practices, and engagement in religious situations. Regulatory strategies encompassed subcategories related to secular and religious life issues, as well as orientation towards eternity. The study included 160 Catholics, with 80 in early adulthood and 80 in late adulthood. Analyses revealed significant differences between these groups across all categories. Early adulthood featured diverse, multifaceted religious feelings, while late adulthood exhibited more uniform, coherent religious feelings, including trust, religious engagement, and orientation towards eternity. Moreover, multilayer perceptron analysis effectively predicted developmental stages based on specific subcategories, shedding light on the dynamic nature of religious feelings across the lifespan and contributing valuable insights to the field of psychology of religion.

Textual connections of the mythonyms in I.A. Bunin’s poetry

The question of the textual functioning of mythonyms in the poetic heritage of I.A. Bunin is raised. The relevance of the topic is due to the interest of linguists in the problem of artistic text-building, in particular the author’s preference in vocabulary selection, as well as the unresolved issue of modeling Bunin’s onomasticon. The purpose of the study is to describe the textual connections of mythological names, through which meaningful and conceptual information is explicated and a subtext is formed. The research material included the scientific edition (by Professor T.M. Dvinyatina) of I.A. Bunin’s poetry, from which 272 units were extracted by continuous sampling. The factual material was systematized and interpreted with the descriptive, taxonomic, quantitative methods, contextual analysis, modeling. Standing out against the background of different layers of the Bunin’s vocabulary, mythological names interact with each other, with other semantic subgroups of onyms, appellatives, attributive and verbal vocabulary. The author notes that mythoanthroponyms and theonyms have the richest syntagmatic connections. Contextual synonymy is found in demononyms, mythoanthroponyms, mythopersonyms, mythoponyms and theonyms; and contextual antonymy is found in mythoponyms and mythopersonyms. The intertextual nature and the precedent level determine the associative connections of Bunin’s mythonymicon units. It is concluded that the textual functioning of mythonyms is determined by I.A. Bunin’s intention to overcome the particularization of cultural worlds and create such an individual author’s mythopoetic space where images and plots already familiar to readers are constantly enriched with new meanings. The prospects of the work include the study of Bunin’s prose mythonymicon and the textual connections of mythonyms in it, which will allow to create a consistent onomastic model of Bunin-writer.

Вводные слова в ливвиковском наречии карельского языка: семантика, этимология и функционирование

the presented article is a comprehensive study of parenthetical words in the Livvik dialect of the newly written Karelian language. Within the framework of the study, the authors turn to the consideration of semantics, etymology and functioning of modal words in the newly written Livvik dialect of the Karelian language. Objective: to study the semantic groups and etymology of the subjective modal components of a sentence functioning in the Livvik dialect of the Karelian language. Research materials: textbooks and dictionaries of the Livvik dialect of the newly written Karelian language. Results and novelty of the research: the article proposes a functional and semantic classification and etymological analysis of Karelian parenthetical modal words. In the Livvik dialect of the Karelian language about 40 parenthetical elements collected in newly written Karelian dictionaries are recorded. The data obtained in the process of studying dictionary materials on the Livvik dialect make it possible to distinguish 5 categories of parenthetical words by their meaning, of which the richest in composition of lexemes is the class intended to express varying degrees of reliability of a statement; other semantic subgroups (expressing a link to the source of a message, a call to an interlocutor, logical connections in a text, the emotional state of a speaker) demonstrate a much more modest segment of the field of subjective-modal collocations in the Livvik dialect of the Karelian language in terms of the number of units recorded in the dictionaries. The etymological analysis of parenthetical modal words showed that parentheses expressing the speaker’s assessment of his statement are in the process of their formation, replenishment with new lexemes; the formation of parenthetical modal phraseology is largely accomplished through syntactic derivation as the transition of notional words (names and verbs) into the class of parenthetical modal ones. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that a semantic classification of parenthetical constructions of the Livvik dialect is proposed based on data from newly written dictionary sources, as well as observations in the field of etymology of parenthetical modal words.

SEMANTIC CONTENT OF CONCEPT HELP CATEGORIZED AS PROPERTY IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH

The article deals with the analysis of the semantic structure of nominative units contributing to the establishment of deep patterns of interaction between the structures of human consciousness and linguistic forms. A person's interpretation of the surrounding reality is the result of cognitive activity and is represented in mental structures that are mediators between the real or imagined environment and the language that objectifies them. Nominative possibilities of the linguistic picture of the world are realized by lexical units, which undergo the conceptual analysis to achieve the goal of linguistic-cognitive research for the reconstruction of the content of the HELP concept in particular. The object of the study is the language means for marking help as a property and its components in the modern English language. Notional aspect with its cognitive features of the concept and categorical dimension of property are interrelated in the organization of knowledge about characteristics of help. Language has proved to be effective for accessing the structures of data about the surrounding world which is the area of human physical and mental activity, as well as for exchanging knowledge and experience. As a part of cognitive process, the nominative act presupposes indulgence into the semantic content of language units which involves the analysis of meaningful connections between the lexemes. Conceptual analysis of verbalized segments of knowledge about characteristics of help promotes restoring the notional conceptual content related to understanding of the helping process in terms of its properties. The semantic content of the concept HELP is constructed due to the meaning of attributes to denote properties of help which make up the lexical-semantic group with the integral seme ²helpful². The lexeme ‘helpful’ comprises two notional segments with differentiating semes ²useful² and ²beneficial². Lexical units to designate the property of help constitute semantic subgroups in relation to the kind of help differentiated from the definitions of the lexemes.

Апеллятивная лексика в дагестанских топонимических названиях (на материале аварского и даргинского языков)

The article examines the appellative vocabulary of the Avar and Dargin languages related to agriculture. Attention is paid to the analysis of folk geographical terms, especially agroonymic terms that form the toponymy of two ethnoregions of Dagestan. The analysis of the presented materials of the Avar and Dargin languages shows that the vocabulary associated with agriculture is well preserved in microtoponymy. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that a large number of words related to ancient farming systems indicates the long preservation of archaic methods of land cultivation in the territory of the Avars and Dargins, which in turn led to the preservation of many farming terms and their consolidation in microtoponymy. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the field material collected by the authors in the mountainous areas of Accident and Darga is introduced into scientific circulation, and a classification of nine semantic subgroups of agroonymic terms is proposed. It is also important to analyze the material in the aspect of comparing farming terms in different dialects. The article describes the experience of the authors' long-term work in the study of Avar and Dargin microtoponyms.

SEMANTIC GROUPS OF VERBAL PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH THE MEANING OF A SPECIFIC ACTIVITY

The author explores individual verbal phraseological units’ meanings, the formation of the semantic structure of the subcategory of activity and individual structural and semantic groups. The main method of this study was the method of semantic identification. The methodological base consists of the works of leading Russian and foreign linguists in phraseology and lexicology. The research material consists of factual material from modern phraseographic sources, as well as the author's card-file of verbal phraseological units. The author describes mono-semantic verbal phraseological units with the meaning of social activity, movement and displacement in space, as well as the ones with the meaning of specific physical actions aimed at satisfying the most important physical (physiological) needs. The pattern of nouns with the meaning of a specific object as a product of activity functioning as an object of the studied units is substantiated. It is established that within the framework of structural-semantic groups and semantic subgroups, verbal phraseological units with the meaning of a specific activity have synonymous relationships. The results obtained can be applied in the courses of lectures and seminars on the modern Belarusian language, as well as on the text linguistics and cultural studies.

Фразеологизмы с компонентом-соматизмом «кöс» ‘глаз’ в алтайском языке

The aim of the study is to present a semantic classification of Altai phraseological units with the somatism component kös ‘eye’. Scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that these phraseolo-gical units have not yet been the subject of a purposeful consideration using the material of the “Altai-Russian Phraseological Dictionary”. As a result of the study, semantic subgroups in the phraseo-semantic group (PSG) of phraseological units with the somatism component kös ‘eye’ have been identified and ana-lysed. The considered PSG in the Altai language is represented by the following semantic subgroups: 1) phraseological units (PU) expressing the relationship between people; 2) PU expressing a person’s state; 3) PU expressing human actions and characteristics of human actions; 4) PU expressing human behaviour; 5) PU expressing the qualitative characteristics of a person; 6) PU expressing a certain distance. The listed semantic subgroups are further subdivided into semantic categories. In terms of quantitative composition, the most numerous semantic subgroups are the subgroups of phraseological units expressing the relationship between people and a person’s state. Among the phraseological units under consideration, there is a variation and optionality of individual components, including the variation of the component kös ‘eye’.

Особенности функционирования глаголов лексико-семантической группы физического воздействия на объект в составе сравнительных конструкций (на материале якутского языка)

The research aims to identify the features of the functioning of verbs of the lexico-semantic group of physical impact on an object as a part of comparative constructions using the material of the Yakut language. Scientific novelty is accounted for by the fact that the study of the functioning of comparative constructions expressed by verbs of various semantic subgroups in Yakut linguistics is a previously unexplored topic. The researcher considers the most common comparative constructions with verbs of the lexico-semantic group of physical impact on an object belonging to the following subgroups: verbs of pressure, touch, changing the position of an object, damaging and striking. As a result of the research, it has been found that comparisons with verb forms are used mainly when describing a person’s mental state. Verb forms are also often used to compare a person’s appearance and objects of the environment with any action, contribute to a vivid and colourful depiction of reality.

ЕМОЦІЙНО-ОЦІННА ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКА ПРОФЕСІЙ І ВИДІВ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ В ДАВНЬОГРЕЦЬКИХ ПАРЕМІЯХ

The results of ancient Greek phraseological units study, which represent the emotional and evaluative characteristics of different professions and activities by ancient Greeks, are presented. 138 ancient Greek phraseological units were analyzed, which include lexemes of the semantic field "professions and activities" (in particular, those that denote the object, result, tool, place of (professional) activity, as well as people's proper names – representatives of a profession that have become a precedent). The lexemes of the semantic subgroups "musical art", "judiciary", "poetic art" have been found to have the highest phraseological productivity, "military affairs", "philosophy", "criminal activity", "medicine" and "sports" have the lowest one. It is important to emphasize that the core lexemes in the analyzed proverbs do not have an evaluative component in their semantics, but in the structure of phraseological units represent a socially fixed assessment or certain social stereotypes due to previous historical experience and cultural preconditions. Quite often stereotypical ideas of the ancient Greek linguistic and cultural community about the representatives of a certain profession or type of activity and their assessment depending on their place of residence or origin are verbalized in phraseological units. Quantitative analysis of phraseological units by type of axiological component revealed a significant advantage of proverbs with a negative connotation over positively or neutrally marked units. Professions and activities in the ancient Greek proverbs are evaluated in two aspects: the relationship between the subject and activity (matching skills, abilities of the subject of activity, effectiveness and benefit to society from the work performed) and personal characteristics of the subject of activity those that are associated in ethnic consciousness with representatives of certain professions and activities, that affect the quality and performance of work (such as mental abilities, taciturnity, truthfulness, ambition, greed, etc.).

ПОЕТИЧНА ІНТЕРПРЕТАЦІЯ ПОНЯТТЯ ДУШІ В НІМЕЦЬКОМОВНІЙ ПОВОЄННІЙ ЛІРИЦІ ХХ СТОЛІТТЯ

Terminological uncertainty of the concept of the soul in psychology necessitates further comprehensive analysis of its verbalization using the latest methods aimed at penetrating the mechanisms of national language creativity. The relevance of the study is determined by the general focus of modern linguistic poetics on the semantics of the literary text in the plane of mental processes, which allows to clarify the nature of the interaction between language and thinking, between language and emotional personality. The purpose of summarized scientific research is to clarify the semantic content of the concept of the soul in the German-language postwar lyrics of the twentieth century. The article reveals the concept of Seele “soul”, outlines its synonyms, reflects the lexical means of realization in the text fabric, traces and correlates geography, gender and logical-semantic approaches to interpreting the nature of the soul, identifies and analyzes semantic subgroups that denote the phenomenon. Quantitative indicators establish a “typical”, “transitional” and “atypical” poetic interpretation. “Typical” poetic interpretation is based on the index “3” and above, “transitional” has the index “2”, “atypical” — the index “1”. Typical approaches are philosophical, psychological, cultural and integrated (combined), transitional are cosmogonic, religious, biological and scientific, atypical are the sacred approach. The ethnic, cultural and gender differences in the interpretation of the soul, as well as the encyclopedic views of poets of Germany, the selectivity Nosenko of poets of the GDR, Austria, Switzerland, outlying (neglect) of poetsof Luxembourg are proved. The obtained conclusions are essential for clarifying the specifics of the national conceptosphere of a certain culture and the types of variant language equivalents in the course of reproduction of the common ethnocultural content.

РЕЧЕВОТО РАЗВИТИЕ НА ДЕЦАТА В ДЕТСКАТА ГРАДИНА В ТЕКСТОЦЕНТРИЧНА И ИНТЕРАКТИВНА ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛНА СРЕДА

This article presents an anonymous (for the purpose of objectivity) survey amongst 75 teachers from 27 kindergartens from all over the country. It analyses the kindergarten teachers’ attitude towards the role of text and interactivity when teaching Bulgarian Language and Literature. The online survey covers 20 questions divided into three semantic subgroups – teachers’ attitude towards the preliminary prep work for teaching; teachers’ point of view on the role of text in the speech development of children; teachers’ attitude towards the effects of using an interactive learning environment. Some of the questions are related to the presumption of the survey’s authors that part of the interactive methods (such as thinking cards, pictograms and book games) are not used actively enough to increase the effectiveness of language teaching in the modern kindergarten, that the text-centricity seldom departs from the framework of the traditional educational nuclei of working with literary text – Comprehension of the literary text and Recreation of the literary text. The data collected from these and the remaining groups of questions forms the basis of the conclusions on the speech development of children in mandatory preschool education groups.

Subject Metaphors of Stars in Lithuanian and Russian Poetic Texts

The current article, that follows the research cycle analyzing natural phenomena metaphors, examines the star metaphors identified in the works of 40 Lithuanian and 54 Russian poets (mostly 20th century). It also studies the subject metaphors which constitute from the ethnolinguistic point of view the most numerous and most interesting group of six semantic subgroups of star metaphors. The subject metaphors of stars can be both substantive and verbal. However, the article focuses on substantive metaphors. They are divided into nine groups: 1) something written, drawn or embroidered (letters, written texts, books, drawings, figures); 2) lighting devices and other lighting means; 3) clothing, fabrics, yarn, knitted or woven items; 4) small metal, shiny, rounded or sharp objects (jewelry, coins, nails, needles, weapons, etc.); 5) buildings and their parts; 6) kitchen utensils; 7) food and drinks; 8) vehicles; 9) fragments of large objects and debris. The study showed the similarity of the poetic systems of the two languages, in which the same metaphorical models are presented, as well as their differences. The largest number of subject metaphors of stars in both poetic traditions was found in the first four groups, the examples from the following three groups were less common, while the examples in which star metaphors related to vehicles were hardly found. The differences between the two poetic systems may be observed due to the differences in cultures and traditional names of stars and constellations in the languages. The article noted that the author’s poetic metaphor in both Lithuanian and Russian could correlate with folklore tradition, that is with riddles, proverbs, legends and traditional beliefs, which are often common to the two languages.

The peculiarity of the semantic structure of phraseological units with the anthroponymic component “human name”

The article is devoted to the study of semantic features of phraseological units that denote a person’s name in the lexical system of the Ukrainian language. The paper substantiates the determining factors of phraseological units with this anthroponymic component, which determines the specifics of their functioning, the division into semantic groups, highlights the most important characteristics of these phraseologies, analyzes the polysemy of phraseological units, identifies mechanisms for representing human characteristics and human, as part of phraseology. Each sphere of human life and activity is represented by several semantic themes, which can be used to determine the nature of the structuring of the whole system of phraseological units with an anthroponymic component. The semantic structure ofthese units can be simple, unambiguous and complex, ambiguous. That is why the task of establishing systemic connections within a selected array of units is important for the multifaceted study of phraseological units with the anthroponymic component «Human name». The selection of material by semantic subgroups will allow to show the richness and diversity of this powerful phraseological layer in the Ukrainian language and to reveal the greatest representation in a particular concept of the analyzed units. Phraseological semantics is determined by the nature of participation and interaction of components in creating a holistic generalized-figurative meaning, it can be represented as a set of ordered semantic elements – seven, correlated with certain properties of objects and phenomena, although there is no direct correspondence between the elements of denoted and denominator, the sign is marked by the asymmetry of its exponential and semantic structure. Thus, phraseological unit has an elusive plural of additional semantics, which distances its meaning from the primary. In the semantic transformation of phraseological units there is a symbolization of their components, which exhaust their functions, cease to be an expression of absolute singularity and acquire connotative meaning. This feature is inherent in most phraseological units, which are part of the selected subgroups and will be discussed below.

Представления об одиночестве в России и Болгарии (на примере студентов)

Loneliness is one of the fundamental problems of modern people. However, loneliness is traditionally associated with negative expressions and characteristics, at the same time it may also have a resource function. The relevance of the study is associated with its focus on the multifaceted understanding of loneliness and identification of its resource mechanisms. The purpose of the study presented in the article is to compare the idea of loneliness among Russian and Bulgarian students. An assumption was made: firstly, there is much in common between two countries, which makes it possible to expect a common value-semantic field, and secondly, despite the semantic similarity of ideas about loneliness, expressiveness of its individual parameters will vary. The study was carried out on a sample (N = 442) of Russian (n = 229) and Bulgarian (n = 213) students aged 17 to 27 years old (M = 20.8 years, SD = 1.64; 359 women and 83 men), living in St. Petersburg (the Russian Federation), Sofia and Plovdiv (Bulgaria). All respondents were asked the question: “What does loneliness mean to you?”. The written answers were analyzed using the method of content analysis, followed by calculating the frequency of occurrence of the semantic group and subgroups, and performing a comparative analysis (Fisher angular transformation). It was noted that the answers of both Bulgarian and Russian students lie in approximately the same semantic field. It was demonstrated that in both groups both positive and negative characteristics of loneliness were present. We established that Russian students more often mention the positive properties of loneliness. They interpret loneliness more often through the opportunities that it gives them. Bulgarian students often mention negative aspects; they express more fear related to loneliness. Similar results confirm our hypothesis about the general semantic field, and, at the same time, demonstrate particular nature of ideas about loneliness in these two groups. The results can be used to develop programs aimed both at reducing negative impact of loneliness, and on development of its resource functions.

Метафоризация природы в лирике А.А. Ахматовой

The primary goal of this paper is to study of the features of the linguistic representation of nature-related vocabulary in Anna Akhmatova’s lyric poems. The principles of compiling a frequency list of plant names are described, a classification of floristic vocabulary is given, and the lexical and semantic subgroup ‘trees’ is analyzed in detail. The specific features of the poet’s individual vision of floristic vocabulary are revealed, taking into account the author’s imagery explicating plant nominations in the literary text.

Embedding-based Silhouette community detection

Mining complex data in the form of networks is of increasing interest in many scientific disciplines. Network communities correspond to densely connected subnetworks, and often represent key functional parts of real-world systems. This paper proposes the embedding-based Silhouette community detection (SCD), an approach for detecting communities, based on clustering of network node embeddings, i.e. real valued representations of nodes derived from their neighborhoods. We investigate the performance of the proposed SCD approach on 234 synthetic networks, as well as on a real-life social network. Even though SCD is not based on any form of modularity optimization, it performs comparably or better than state-of-the-art community detection algorithms, such as the InfoMap and Louvain. Further, we demonstrate that SCD’s outputs can be used along with domain ontologies in semantic subgroup discovery, yielding human-understandable explanations of communities detected in a real-life protein interaction network. Being embedding-based, SCD is widely applicable and can be tested out-of-the-box as part of many existing network learning and exploration pipelines.

NAMING OF THE PREMISES FOR KEEPING DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND POULTY IN BOYKOS DIALECT

The aim of the study is to explore the semantic structure of the names of premises for keeping domestic animals and poultry in Boykos dialect. The object of study is lexical and semantic subgroup of the premises names for keeping domestic animals and poultry in Boykos dialect. The material for study was the personal recording of the Boykos native speaker, who spoke about the building the house, it took place in 51st settlement during 2016 – 2018.The materials of lexicographic, lexico-geographic and ethnic works from Boykivshyna were used. The descriptive, comparative methods and method of etymological analysis were applied. As a result of the study, the semantic structure of the premises names for domestic animals and poultry were found out; the variability of the lexemes on the phonetic and morphological level was determined; the comparative analysis of lexemes with other Ukrainian language dialects was conducted; the etymology of the analyzed lexemes and their motivational peculiarities, their effective features of motivation were revealed. Conclusions: 1.Most part of the analyzed lexemes shows extended semantic structure, there is lexical variability in certain dialects. 2. Most of the analyzed names are derived from the names of the animals. At the same time, we find the words, that have clear motivation (sazh ← sa|dyty, |s''idalo ← sі|daty). 3. By the origin most of the lexemes of the analyzed lexical and semantic subgroup are specific; among the borrowings are German and Romanian words.

CBSSD: community-based semantic subgroup discovery

Modern data mining algorithms frequently need to address the task of learning from heterogeneous data, including various sources of background knowledge. A data mining task where ontologies are used as background knowledge in data analysis is referred to as semantic data mining. A specific semantic data mining task is semantic subgroup discovery: a rule learning approach enabling ontology terms to be used in subgroup descriptions learned from class labeled data. This paper presents Community-Based Semantic Subgroup Discovery (CBSSD), a novel approach that advances ontology-based subgroup identification by exploiting the structural properties of induced complex networks related to the studied phenomenon. Following the idea of multi-view learning, using different sources of information to obtain better models, the CBSSD approach can leverage different types of nodes of the induced complex network, simultaneously using information from multiple levels of a biological system. The approach was tested on ten data sets consisting of genes related to complex diseases, as well as core metabolic processes. The experimental results demonstrate that the CBSSD approach is scalable, applicable to large complex networks, and that it can be used to identify significant combinations of terms, which can not be uncovered by contemporary term enrichment analysis approaches.

Детермінантний аналіз синонімічного ряду назв медиків у середньоанглійській мові.

The aim of the research is to reconstruct the development of the semantic subsystem of names of physicians in Middle English by establishing the specifics of the support of the internal determinant of the semantic group of occupational terms in Middle English at the level of the series of synonyms by performing the tasks of the analysis of the etymological composition of their word-stems, functional differentiation and chronological stratification of their first written attestations. The subject of the study is the etymological composition, functional differentiation and chronological stratification of the Middle English names of physicians. The object of the study is the semantic group of occupational terms, in particular the series of synonyms – the names of physicians (common nouns and proper names) as a subsystem of the semantic sub-group of the names of persons engaged in the intellectual activity.

Psychosemantical Approach to Volition Research

The research into the ratio of objective and subjective indicators of the volitional qualities of an individual conducted by the Department of General and Social Psychology of the UrFU discovered some limitations of the corresponding approaches to such multidimensional objects as volition. The research into individual semanticfields of the concept of ‘volition’ will make up for the existing methodological gap in that area. The research was conducted in 2017. The sample consisted of 77 students of the Department of Psychology. The semantic differential method in the modification by I.L. Solomin was used as a basis. The list of objects has been changed and expanded according to the tasks of the research. The second method of research is the associative experiment. The results were processed by using the methods of cluster analysis, factor analysis and content analysis. An analysis of individual cluster trees discovered a rather large variability of the semantic relationships between the objects under study. Several sub-groups of respondents were identified according to the individual characteristics of the semantic fields in relation to the object ‘volition’, the sub-group ‘success of activities’, the sub-group ‘personality qualities’, the subgroup ‘negative objects’ and the sub-group ‘object is not defined’. Most students consider volition either as an applied tool of educational or professional activities, or as a self-sufficient personal mechanism. With the help of factor analysis, the features of the affective attitude toward the object ‘volition’ in respect to the sample as a whole are revealed. The associative experiment made it possible to identify the key topic markers that characterize the volition of respondents of different semantic sub-groups. For the sub-group ‘success of activities’, it is ‘power’; it is ‘time’ for the sub-group ‘personality qualities’, in particular, ‘responsibility’; it is ‘firmness’ for the sub-group ‘negative objects’. The psychosemantics approach in studying volition allows us to identify topics that clarify the semantic nuances of the concept of ‘volition’ in the minds of the subjects. The method of the semantic differential and the method of associative experiment are mutually complementary with respect to research into the semantic sphere of a personality. The results obtained provide a necessary part of a comprehensive study of volition and the volitional qualities of aperson.
 Keywords: volition, volitional qualities, responsibility, students, psychosemantic approach, semantic differential, semantic field, associative experiment, semantic structures of consciousness, representations, individuality, cluster trees, topic markers