－ based on the association experiment A cross-cultural comparison of Russian and Hungarian pre-school children's verbal consciousness － based on the association experiment

PhD, Associate Professor Sechenov University Moscow, Russia MEGJEGYZÉS: A dián szereplő képek módosításához jelölje ki, majd törölje a képet. Ezután kattintson a Kép beszúrása ikonra a helyőrzőben a saját képe beszúrásához. Orsolya Endrody-Nagy PhD, Associate Professor Eotvos Lorand University Budapest, Hungary Istvan Lenart PhD, Associate Professor Sechenov University Moscow, Russia

UNKP-17-4 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities MEGJEGYZÉS: A dián szereplő képek módosításához jelölje ki, majd törölje a képet. Ezután kattintson a Kép beszúrása ikonra a helyőrzőben a saját képe beszúrásához.

Introduction

A cross-cultural - interdisciplinary research Russian-Hungarian cross-cultural comparison Psycholinguistic-pedagogical approach

Interdisciplinary Research Psycholinguistics Childhood Studies

Childhood as a social construction Childhood is to be considered as a social construction Childhood is a variable of social analysis, to be considered in conjunction with others (class, gender, ethnicity) Children must be seen as active in determining their own lives and the lives of people around them. (James, A–Prout, A., 1997)

The Moscow School of Psycholinguistics Inception: 1966, Leontiev's lectures in Moscow Verbal (linguistic / language) consciousness (языковое сознание) (Tarasov) ‘‘a complex of verbally externalized mental images of consciousness which contain concepts of man and his activities as well as of objects and phenomena of the world developed by members of a certain culture’’ (Tarasov 1996) Lacuna theory (Markovina 1983)

Methods

The Association Experiment 60-60 pre-school children Russian and Hungarian pre-schools Year of birth: 2013-2014 (4-5 years old) Urban families 15-20 minutes / interview

The Association Experiment 10 word-stimuli 27 questions Shoulder-to-shoulder method Modified, mixed format: associations ＆ extra qualitative questions

Layout of the questionnaire MEGJEGYZÉS: A dián szereplő képek módosításához jelölje ki, majd törölje a képet. Ezután kattintson a Kép beszúrása ikonra a helyőrzőben a saját képe beszúrásához.

Results

Results, no.1: FRIEND

Results, no.2: CHILD

Results, no.3: FAMILY

Results, no.4: WATER

Results, no.5: BLACK

Results, no.6: TOY

Results, no.7: DEVIL

Results, no.8: HOME

Results, no.9: FOREIGNER

Results, no.10: ANGEL

The concept of CHILDHOOD in view of the analysis A child is a small version of an adult / small animal (eg. bunny, bearcub). Childhood historians believed in a similar theory for centuries. A child is good and beautiful. – In the discipline of History of childhood it is a core dilemma: Are children diabolic or divine? A child plays. (It is a statment: Adults don’t play.)

Conclusions

Conclusions I. A./ Universalistic features: “a foreigner speaks, lives, and travels”; “a family is about mother, love, and good. B./ Culture-/Language-bound characteristics: друг-дружить; чёрт-чёрточка-чёрный-чертить (sound) C./ Globalization and its effects: tablets, cartoons, brand names (lego, Duplo, Trudi) D./ Translation anomaliae: the Lacuna Paradox: ördög-дьявол-чёрт-бес- сатана

Conclusions II. E./ Elaboration: the questionnaire made an opportunity to elaborate their problems, regarding their problems at home (e.g. father has died, parents are divorced) F./ Fiction vs. Reality: children seem to be not sure whether angels and devils exist or not G./ Confirmation: We need more research - children have vast knowledge about the world surrounding them, they understand a lot more then we expect

Future plans

1. Expanding the scale of the study. From 60 to100 respondents 1. Expanding the scale of the study From 60 to100 respondents Adding a 3rd group of Russian children attending Hungarian pre-schools 2. Expanding the scope of the study Geograpically/culturally: Japan, Italy, Vietnam, Laos Methodologically: corpus linguistic analysis 3. Dissemination of the results Hungarian, Russian ＆ other international journals

Some fun... The members of a family: “mother, father, children, cat and monkey” A foreigner: “someone with green skin and 4 eyes” Devil: “a person who haven't had a shower for a long time” Family: “when Mom goes to party” Water: “it contains the vitamins” Angel: “the one that jumps in when the devil gets sick”

Orsolya Endrody-Nagy endrody.orsolya@ tok.elte.hu Istvan Lenart istvan.lenart@ 1msmu.ru -Pre-school “Samson” -Pre-school named after MarinaTsvetaeva “no. 1619” -Hungarian pre-schools Orsolya Endrody-Nagy endrody.orsolya@ tok.elte.hu MEGJEGYZÉS: A dián szereplő képek módosításához jelölje ki, majd törölje a képet. Ezután kattintson a Kép beszúrása ikonra a helyőrzőben a saját képe beszúrásához. Thank you for your attention!