Lingvo-psychological study of verbal semantics
T.N. Ushakova*, S.S. Belova**, E.A. Valueva***
* Academician of RAE, leading research assistant, Institute of Psychology RAS, Moscow;
** PhD, research assistant, Institute of Psychology RAS, head of laboratory of MCPPU
Moscow;
***PhD, research assistant, Institute of Psychology RAS, leading research assistant of
MCPPU, Moscow
Lingvo-psychological approach to verbal semantics which is understand as totality of specific
phenomena of man’s verbal-cognitive sphere connected with speaker’s potential and actual
awareness and understanding relationships between verbal elements and objects of external
world and verbal elements between themselves as well is proposed. Original method for
language’s polysemantic fields’ analysis is elaborated. The results of two research series
describing peculiarities of verbal semantics in organization of language lexics, ways of semantic
components’ encoding, consistency of words’ semantic organization in adult speakers, forms of
semantic component existence in man’s cognitive-verbal sphere are described.
Key words: lingvo-psychology, verbal semantics, encoding of semantic components,
peculiarities of semantic organization.