A review of some experimental methods for studying the semantics of lexical units

Abstract

The article is devoted to the presentation of the theoretical and methodological foundations of experimental studies of the semantics of linguistic units. It is stated that the anthropocentric paradigm is one of the leading paradigms in modern world linguistics. There are numerous scientific schools in different countries of the world working within the framework of the anthropocentric paradigm. The article describes some words meanings experimental studies methods that are actively used by linguists in the Russian Federation. A review analysis of the methodology of semantic scaling, the method of free associations, perceptional experiment, directional association experiment and a chain association experiment are given. It is concluded that the combined use of these techniques in the linguistic research process is necessary, since this approach allows obtaining the most complete picture of the psycholinguistic processes occurring in the minds of native speakers.