The token «poet» in the explanatory dictionary of the XXI century and in the language ability of a modern native speaker: on the question of cultural semantics of language signs

Kuzmina Alla Vasilievna

In this article, the ability of language signs to perform the function of the "language" of culture is considered on the example of the lexeme "poet". Russian Russian dictionary's comparison of the system meaning of the lexeme "poet" with the associative content of this unit, which is stored in the lexicon of modern students, allows us to see which "cultural" quanta of the semantics of the analyzed word are relevant in our time for the average native speaker of the Russian language.

Keywords:linguocultural studies, associative-verbal network, associative experiment, peronospera, "naive literature."