“National Paradigm” of the Russian Language Personality (on the materials of the Associative-verbal Network)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the psychological meanings of words related to the “national” paradigm. The analysis is carried out in the current diachrony on the materials of the big Russian regional associative databases SIBAS 1 (2008–2013), SIBAS 2 (2014–2022) and EURAS (2008–2013) in comparison with the all-Russian data, collected in the epoch of perestroika (RAS: 1988–1997). The explication of socio-communicative attitudes of the Russian language personality (RLP) towards operating with verbal units of the “national” paradigm shows the preservation of the specifics of national feeling at the level of psychologically relevant meanings among modern youth, characteristic of scenarios of interethnic relations that developed during the Soviet period. At the same time, there are traces of the specific impact of post-perestroika changes in the socio-communicative environment associated with the disappearance of Soviet identity, the accompanying activation and specific strengthening of ethnic awareness in the image of the world of Russians and the general growth of national identity.