Толерантность по-русски и по-английски: корпусное исследование

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Malafeev A., Орехова Е. А.

Tolerance is a complex and partly contradictory concept that can be understood differently not only in different cultures, but also within the same culture. This paper presents a comparative study of the perception of tolerance by Russian and English speakers based on analysis of corpus data. At the initial stage of the study, the authors semi-automatically compiled a pilot web-based corpus of texts about tolerance. The corpus consists of a Russian-language subcorpus of 199,607 words and an English-language subcorpus of 210,898 words. After the mini-corpus was analyzed,  the results were verified on the data from the general corpora ruTenTen11 and enTenTen13 using the Sketch Engine platform. The authors compared the word sketches for толерантность (tolerantnost’), tolerance, толерантный (tolerantnyi) and tolerant. In particular, this implied analyzing various lexical-semantic fields and thematic groups of collocates, as well as the following patterns: X толерантности (tolerantnosti) and X of tolerance, толерантность к (tolerantnost’ k) X and tolerance towards X, толерантность и/или (tolerantnost’ i/ili) X and tolerance and/or X. In addition, various derivatives of толерантность (tolerantnost’) / tolerance were discovered in the corpora and analyzed, including numerous nonce words. The corpus analysis enabled a deep insight into the way tolerance is perceived by Russian and English speakers.

Keywords: толерантность, языковая картина мира, tolerance, corpus analysis, корпусный анализ, views on tolerance, specialized corpus building, language worldview, отношение к толерантности, составление специализированного корпуса

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Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По мате­риалам ежегодной международной конференции «Диалог» (Москва, 31 мая — 3 июня 2017 г.). Вып. 16 (23): В 2 т.

Т. 1. , М.: Изд-во РГГУ, 2017.