INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION (SCIENCE–SOCIETY) IN THE LANGUAGE WORLD VIEW OF LIBRARY READERS
Authors:   The State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pleshakova Maria A. , Kalyuzhnaya Tatyana A. ,   The State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Published: December 2024

Since horizontal communicative formats have become characteristic of the emerging modern model of interaction between science and society, the opinions of members of the public on this issue became a priority. The article analyzes the subjective judgments of readers about the possibility of libraries; participation in the intercultural communication (science–society), obtained with the help of open-ended questions that give respondents complete freedom in expressing thoughts. A large number of unstructured answers have difficulties in systematization, since respondents, native speakers as individuals, have their own attitude to the question. Therefore, the study uses an approach based on the fact that free responses, which are conscious verbal responses to stimuli created by questions about the role of libraries in the intercultural communication (science–society), have clarity of wording and completeness of thought and represent a narrative. In order to deduce the general discourse as generalized group representations consisting of the sum of individual statements, the goal was set – to build a frequency thesaurus reflecting a fragment of the readers; linguistic picture of the world about the participation of libraries in the intercultural communication (science–society) using the lexicographic method used to create descriptive dictionaries. The research base is an array of free answers to questionnaire questions for readers of Novosibirsk public libraries (1984 respondents aged 14+). The processing of personal data was carried out in a formalized way. The thesaurus is built on the principle of articles of direct and reverse associative dictionaries: the key unit is the main idea of the questionnaire question, the dictionary entry consists of a reference word and subordinate words forming a different context and represents a fragment of the linguistic picture of the world of readers of Novosibirsk public libraries. The specificity of the thesaurus is that its content is not limited by formal requirements for the uniformity of lexical units, but includes a wide range of concepts united by associative links. Thesaurus terms make it possible to define subjects, objects, processes, phenomena, etc., related to the implementation of communicative actions between representatives of the culture of science and the culture of everyday life in libraries, the versatile characteristics of their states and qualities, as well as the emotional background accompanying respondents in the process of communicative activity of the appropriate orientation. The frequency of lexical units defined as reference and subordinate words when creating a thesaurus indicates the formation of a certain stereotype in the opinions of representatives of the studied group. Thesaurus materials can serve as research data for new library science, sociological, cultural, linguistic and psychological research.