Ethnonyms and ethnic stereotypes in the modern students’ linguistic picture of the world
https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2026-84-2-87-93
Abstract
Ethnic stereotypes in culture and the ethnonyms they reflect in language are important components of the cultural and linguistic representation of a nation. Complex political processes and social reforms, occurring in the country throughout the 20th century, have led to historical discontinuities in the formation of ethnic identity and self-awareness among Russians, resulting in the emergence of a wide range of ethnonyms, replacing traditional names.
This article analyzes the results of a series of associative experiments that we conducted among Russian and international students to clarify the students’ understanding of linguistic forms of presenting national identity and to elucidate the dynamics of change in these understandings.
The study shows that the choice of a particular ethnonym and the adequacy of its interpretation is the result of understanding and comprehension of the meanings and associations embedded in it, which directly depends on the socio-cultural and age characteristics of the respondents, the degree of their involvement in the process of individual and collective self-determination in the cultural space.
The choice and function of ethnonyms in society, as well as the formation and verbal production of ethnic stereotypes, their consolidation in the linguistic picture of the world, are impossible without the subjective experience of community solidarity, evaluative judgments, individual and collective selfreflection regarding national identity.
About the Author
N. V. Oturgasheva
Siberian Institute of Management – Branch of the RANEPA
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Oturgasheva Natalya Vadimovna, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor
6, Nizhegorodskaya Str., Novosibirsk, 630102
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Oturgasheva N.V. Ethnonyms and ethnic stereotypes in the modern students’ linguistic picture of the world. Philology and Culture. 2026;(2):87-93. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2026-84-2-87-93
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