Comparative Analysis of Concreteness/Abstractness of Russian Words

Abstract

© 2020 FRUCT. The article presents the results of studying the perception of Russian words by parameters: concreteness/abstractness. The purpose of the research: creation of a special dictionary where the degree of its abstractness is specified for each word. The research used semantic differentiation method, where respondents evaluated the degree of abstractness/concreteness of the word on a scale from 1 to 5 in online mode. The sample of 154 respondents in the research was used. A 500word analysis was made. The survey was conducted in Russia. The analysis of words allowed classifying them into three categories: abstract/concreteness/undifferentiated.