Study of the Covid-19 Related Quarantine Concept as an Emerging Category of a Linguistic Consciousness

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Study of the Covid-19 Related Quarantine Concept as an Emerging Category of a Linguistic Consciousness

Vitalii Shymko, DSc. in Psychology, Professor

Anzhela Babadzhanova, Ph.D. in Psychology

Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State

Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv Reg., Ukraine

Abstract

Objective. Study of the Covid-19 related quarantine concept as an emerging category of linguistic consciousness of Ukrainians.

Materials & Methods. The strategy of the study is based on the logical and methodological concept of inductivism. Respondents were asked to write down their own understanding of the quarantine, formulate an appropriate definition and describe the situation, which in their opinion is the exact opposite to quarantine. Respondents also assessed how much their psychological well-being, their daily lifestyle during quarantine had changed, and ranked their preferences for the quarantine strategies proposed to them. A discursive analysis was applied to the obtained texts, as a result of which nine discourses were identified. These data, along with some sociodemographic characteristics were subjected to multidimensional mathematical and statistical processing.

Results. Covid-19 related quarantine is represented in the linguistic consciousness of Russian-speaking Ukrainians by a discursive field, which includes at least nine recognizable, semantically autonomous discourses. Empirically discovered such phenomenon as - inter-discourse semantic dissociation. Its essence is a statistically significant reduction in the probability of some discourses appearing in the texts when others are being actualized there. This feature is associated with the innate negativity of the language and determines the semantic biasing of the quarantine concept. Inter-discourse semantic dissociation, as well as the influence of non-discursive factors constitute the discursive formation of the quarantine concept, which is qualitatively characterized by the hierarchical relationship of its components. At the same time, it was revealed that part of the discourses interacting «horizontally» are indirectly associated «vertically», which forms the stable semantic core of the quarantine concept. Partial empirical confirmation has been found of the previously put forward assumptions about: (a) the existence of such a relationship between discourses and psychological defense mechanisms (as character-forming factors) that contributes to the hierarchical structure construction of discursive formations; (b) the differential nature of discourses and mechanisms of psychological defenses interaction, which makes it possible to single out the discursive aspect in a characterological profile and consider a discourse as an operator of characterological semantics.

Conclusions. An empirical study made it possible to form a primary idea of the substantive and structural semantic features of the quarantine concept, as an emerging category of linguistic consciousness of Ukrainians. The results obtained have a potentially useful application perspective. Thus, when implementing anti-epidemiological measures, it is important to consider the studied features of the discursive formation hierarchical structure of the quarantine concept, since discursive semantics are associated with cognitive focusing, which, in turn, affects the behavior direction and its upshots.

Key words: quarantine, Covid-19, coronavirus, discourse, linguistic consciousness, semantics, dissociation, character.

Аннотация

Исследование концепта коронавирусного карантина как новой категории языкового сознания

Виталий Шимко, доктор психологических наук, профессор

Анжела Бабаджанова, кандидат психологических наук

ДВНЗ «Переяслав- Хмельницький державний педагогічний університет імені Григорія Сковороди». Переяслав-Хмельницький, Київська обл., Україна, Группа компаний «Golden Tile». Киев, Украина

Цель исследования. Исследование концепта коронавирусного карантина как новой категории языкового сознания украинцев.

Методики исследования. Стратегия проведенного изучения основывается на логико-методологической концепции индуктивизма. Респондентам было предложено письменно изложить собственное понимание карантина, сформулировав соответствующее определение, и описать ситуацию, которая на их взгляд является полной его противоположностью. Также респонденты оценивали, насколько изменилось их психологическое самочувствие, повседневный образ жизни во время карантина и ранжировали предпочтительность, предложенных им, карантинных стратегий.

К полученным текстам был применен дискурсивный анализ, в результате чего выделено девять дискурсов. Указанные данные вместе с некоторыми социо-демографическими характеристиками были подвергнуты многомерной математико-статистической обработке.

Результаты. Коронавирусный карантин представлен в языковом сознании дискурсивным полем, которое включает девять распознаваемых, семантически автономных дискурсов. Эмпирически зафиксировано такое явление, как междискурсная семантическая диссоциация. Его суть заключается в статистически достоверном снижении вероятности появления в текстах одних дискурсов при актуализации других. Данная особенность связана с негативизмом языка и обуславливает тенденциозность семантического наполнения концепта карантин. Междискурсная семантическая диссоциация, а также влияние не дискурсивных факторов конституируют дискурсивную формацию концепта карантин, качественно характеризующуюся иерархичностью связей ее компонентов. Одновременно с этим выявлено, что часть диссоциативно взаимодействующих «по горизонтали» дискурсов, опосредованно ассоциированы «вертикально», чем формируют устойчивое семантическое ядро концепта карантин. Найдено частичное эмпирическое подтверждение ранее выдвинутых предположений о: (а) наличии такой взаимосвязи между дискурсами и механизмами психологических защит (как характерообразующих факторов), которая вносит вклад в иерархическое структурообразование дискурсивных формаций; (б) дифференциальности взаимодействия дискурсов и механизмов психологических защит, что позволяет выделять в характерологическом профиле дискурсивный аспект и рассматривать дискурс в качестве оператора характерологической семантики.

Выводы. Проведенное эмпирическое исследование позволило сформировать первичное представления о содержательных и структурных особенностях концепта карантин как новой категории сознания украинцев. Полученные результаты имеют потенциально полезную прикладную перспективу. Так, при проведении противоэпидемиологических мероприятий важно учитывать изученные особенности иерархической структуры дискурсивной формации концепта карантин, поскольку дискурсивная семантика связана с когнитивной фокусировкой, которая, в свою очередь, влияет на направленность и результаты поведения.

Ключевые слова: языковое сознание, семантика, дискурс, карантин, Covid-19, диссоциация, характер.

Анотація

Дослідження концепту коронавірусного карантину як нової категорії мовної свідомості

Шимко Віталій & Бабаджанова Анжела.

Мета дослідження. Дослідження концепту коронавірусного карантину як нової категорії мовної свідомості українців.

Методики дослідження. Стратегія проведеного вивчення ґрунтується на логіко-методологічній концепції індуктивізму. Респондентам було запропоновано письмово викласти власне розуміння карантину, сформулювавши відповідне визначення та описати ситуацію, яка, на їхній погляд, є повною його протилежністю. Також респонденти оцінювали, наскільки змінилося їхнє психологічне самопочуття, повсякденний спосіб життя під час карантину й ранжували уподобання щодо запропонованих їм карантинних стратегій. До отриманих текстів був застосований дискурсивний аналіз, в результаті чого виділено дев'ять дискурсів. Зазначені дані разом з деякими соціально-демографічними характеристиками були піддані багатовимірної математико-статистичній обробці.

Результати. Коронавірусний карантин представлено в мовній свідомості дискурсивним полем, яке включає принаймні дев'ять дискурсів, які розпізнаються та є семантично автономними. Емпірично зафіксовано таке явище, як міждискурсна семантична дисоціація. Його суть полягає в статистично достовірному зниженні ймовірності появи в текстах одних дискурсів при актуалізації інших. Дана особливість пов'язана з негативізмом мови й обумовлює тенденційність семантичного наповнення концепту карантин. Міждискурсна семантична дисоціація, а також вплив недискурсивних факторів конституюють дискурсивну формацію концепту карантин, котра якісно характеризується ієрархічністю зв'язків її компонентів. Одночасно з цим виявлено, що частина дисоціативно взаємодіючих «за горизонталлю» дискурсів, опосередковано асоційовані «вертикально», чим формують стійке семантичне ядро концепту карантин. Знайдено часткове емпіричне підтвердження раніше висунутих припущень щодо: (а) наявності такого взаємозв'язку між дискурсами та механізмами психологічних захистів (як характероутворювальних факторів), який вносить вклад в ієрархічне структурування дискурсивних формацій; (б) диференційності взаємодії дискурсів і механізмів психологічних захистів, котра дозволяє виділяти в характерологічному профілі дискурсивний аспект і розглядати дискурс в якості оператора характерологічної семантики. Висновки. Проведене емпіричне дослідження дозволило сформувати первинне уявлення про змістовні та структурні особливості семантики концепту карантин, як нової категорії свідомості українців. Отримані результати мають потенційно корисну прикладну перспективу. Так, при проведенні протиепідемічних заходів важливо враховувати вивчені особливості ієрархічної структури дискурсивної формації концепту карантин, оскільки дискурсивна семантика пов'язана з когнітивним фокусуванням, яке, в свою чергу, впливає на спрямованість і результати поведінки.

Ключові слова: мовна свідомість, семантика, дискурс, карантин, Covid-19, дисоціація, характер.

Introduction

The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has become an unprecedented challenge for most modern human beings. According to the criteria of rapid spread, geographical coverage, dynamics of morbidity and mortality, the closest historical analogue is the events of 1918-20, called the Spanish flu (Rosenwald, 2020). Despite to the century of scientific and technological acceleration that has passed since then, the main global response to the pandemic remains quarantine yet.

The first half of 2020 convincingly has demonstrated the non-alternative nature of such a method of controlling morbidity, especially in the early stages of the disease spread.

This has focused the interest of the scientific international community towards the various aspects of quarantine, as a socio-psychological and organizational-economic phenomenon. So, along with the impact on the epidemiological dynamics, the functioning of society itself, the behavior and well-being of people under conditions that instantly gained status `new normal' have been studied (Brooks, 2020; Haletska, 2020; Holmes, 2020; Long, 2020; Moloney, K. & Moloney, S., 2020; Nussbaumer-Streit et al., 2020; Parmet & Sinha, 2020; Sorooshian, 2020; Suresh, 2020; Volpert et al., 2020; Wanga et al., 2020; Webster et al., 2020; Wilder- Smith & Freedman, 2020 et al.).

Most scientists rightly believe that the successful implementation of quarantine involves behavioral, organizational, informational and value synchronization of the actions by millions of people.

However, at the same time, the linguistic tools of such synchronization are mainly being left outside the framework of the first wave of social and humanitarian studies. On the one hand, in the research community itself there is no consistency pertaining the semantic field of the term quarantine.

On the other hand, the meaning of this concept for modern people remains almost unexplored by scientists. The coronavirus pandemic not only actualized the corresponding word, but rather led to the formation of a new category in the linguistic consciousness of mankind. Our study is devoted to an empirical research of some semantic features of the quarantine concept, as an emerging phenomenon in Ukrainian society. This article presents the results that we perceive as the most significant, both scientifically and theoretically, and from an applicability point of view as well.

Methods and Techniques of the Research

The strategy of our study is based on the inductive logical and methodological concept. Such a choice was made due to, firstly, unexampled events that determined the subject of our study, i.e. the content and structural semantics features of the Covid-19 related quarantine concept (hereinafter - quarantine) as an emerging category of a linguistic consciousness. Secondly, because of obvious applicability importance of such research for the respective socio-epidemiological, organizational, economic issues, etc. In this regard, we compiled a sample of respondents who were employed and worked during the quarantine period (104 people in total) in several regions of Ukraine (Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Odessa, Lviv, Rivne, Mukachevo). The age range was from 21 to 62 years. Gender distribution - 47.1% of women. All are ethnic Ukrainians, bilinguals (Ukrainian and Russian) with higher education.

Field part of the study was conducted in the second half of May 2020, which means that all respondents spent more than 60 days under national quarantine conditions, started in Ukraine on March 11, 2020. Most of the respondents worked during the quarantine period, visiting offices and other places of professional activity. 13.5% - were on short-term of self-isolations (from 1 to 15 days). One respondent self-isolated himself for 50, and two - for 56 days. According to the participants' self-reports, no one in the indicated period had been officially diagnosed with any diseases and had not experienced any sickness symptoms at the time of the study. 6.7% of respondents said that among their personal environment have been some acquaintances (family members, close friends, work colleagues, etc.) who got sick on coronavirus during quarantine (from 1 to 7 people).

Each respondent was asked to set out their own understanding of quarantine, i.e. formulate an appropriate definition in written. After that, respondents described the situation, which is the exact opposite of quarantine (anti-quarantine). This task was provided and used by us for:

(a) subjective semantics clarification of quarantine definitions;

(b) making reconstruction of the implied meanings of quarantine when the respondents borrowed the corresponding definitions from the Internet (14 such cases were found in total, which amounted to 13.5% of the sample).

Respondents also assessed how much their psychological well-being and everyday life routine had been changed during quarantine and ranked their preferences for the list of quarantine strategies proposed by us: military like (tough and decisive actions); systemic (comprehensive and controlled measures); democratic (permissive and selective policies); social protection (collective provision and security).

Specified tasks and some socio-demographic questions were aggregated in the questionnaire «My Quarantine» (in Russian). Its sample along with detailed calculations of multidimensional mathematical and statistical processing (IBM SPSS Statistics, Version 26.0.0.1) of the survey results, are publicly available at Harvard Dataverse (Shymko & Babadzhanova, 2020).

Like in any other inductive oriented research, it is impossible to completely abandon some hypothetical-deductive initial premises, the need for which is objectively actualized by necessity of choosing methods and forming tools for the data collection, processing and further interpretations of obtained statistical results. In particular, the quarantine strategies mentioned above in the «My Quarantine» questionnaire (Shymko & Babadzhanova, 2020: HO7EWG) were created by us taking into account some characterological features of speech activity and were intended to study the possible connection between subjective quarantine conceptualizations and psychological defense mechanisms (Reich, 1990).

Furthermore, the respondents' quarantine definitions were classified and quantified based on Foucault's theory of such a psycholinguistic category as a discourse: «...discourse is constituted by a group of sequences of signs, in so far as they are statements, that is, in so far as they can be assigned particular modalities of existence. The term discourse can be defined as the group of statements that belong to a single system of <discursive> formation; thus I shall be able to speak of clinical discourse, economic discourse, the discourse of natural history, psychiatric discourse» (Foucault, 1972: 107-108). Herewith the practical side of discourses identification in the texts studied was realized by us through recognizing stable semantic autonomies generated by dispersions of verbal meanings. This work was carried out in three steps. On the first and second ones the experts were engaged (four scientists, practical researchers with more than 20 years of professional background in the field of applied psycholinguistics). At the first step, each expert independently analyzed every text and formed the initial classification of the identified discourses.

Then these discourses were compiled together and in such a way a general list of 23 discourses was created. At the second step, the experts had discussed the general list, clarified the semantics of previously derived discourses and achieved terminological unification, as a result of which the list was reduced to nine positions that form the discursive field of the quarantine concept (Table 1).

On the third step the hierarchical cluster analysis had been applied, the results of which (Shymko & Babadzhanova, 2020: J5IAHJ) substantiated the expediency of combining the fourth, fifth and eighth discourses (Table 1) into one discourse, which we designated as HEALTH PRESERVATION.

The data array was accordingly rearranged and further processing (frequency, correlation, binary logistic and ordinal regression analysis) was carried out within the framework of the seven-discourse model.

Table 1. Discursive field of quarantine concept

Separately we note that for the purpose of discourses quantification a binary nominal scale was used in the dataset (1 - THERE IS DISCOURSE; 0 - NO DISCOURSE), regardless of the amount of corresponding text units (words) and compositional linguistic features of the discourse's textual manifestations. Despite the obvious hierarchical relations between the studied discourses, in this publication we do not dwell on the issue and confine ourselves to setting out the most basic semantic characteristics of the discursive field and its structural organization. The reason is the excessive amount of the corresponding results, a comprehensive description of which would require several separate reports. In the further parts of this article, the most important generalizations are given that deserve attention from the point of view of their mathematical and statistical significance. Appropriate specifying parameters and details, as noted, are available online for review and study (Shymko & Babadzhanova, 2020).

Results

Discussions

To interpret the results (Table 2), let us return to the hierarchy of discourses mentioned above. More often about hierarchy it is customary to speak in axiological, motivational-needful, event-sequential, spatiotemporal relation, etc. All these are examples of hierarchies with a fundamentally positive (affirmative) architecture. In psycholinguistics, in our opinion, it is necessary to consider the negative nature of the language, especially when studying the verbal categories of consciousness: «Instead of preexisting ideas then, we find in the foregoing examples values emanating from the system.

When they are said to correspond to concepts, it is understood that the concepts are purely differential and defined not by their positive content, but negatively by their relations with other terms of the system. Their most precise characteristic is in being what the others are not» (Saussure, 1959: 117). We believe that the negative inter-discourse relationships detected by us using binary logistic regression (Table 2) reflect Saussure's quoted position.

Summarizing the results of binary logistic regression and considering them in the context of other statistical observations (Shymko & Babadzhanova, 2020), we are inclined to make a conclusion that such a negativity has a certain specificity and is adjacent next to other (positive) factors that form the quarantine concept semantics. So, on the one hand, inter-discourse relations are realized not so much by negative association scenario as according to the principle of dissociation. Here, by dissociation we mean the phenomenon observed in our study: the actualization of one discourse is accompanied by a statistically significant decrease in the probability of another (others) appearances in the text, which in practice means the factual exclusion of these discourses from the quarantine concept.

This feature determines the tendentiousness (biasing) of the quarantine concept semantics. At the same time, we assume that such a dissociative «withdrawal» of semantics is not specific for quarantine concept and occurs during the formation of other linguistics concepts as well. Furthermore, we suggest this mechanism generally takes part in the verbal-logical operations by the means of linguistic consciousness categories. In this regard, we propose to recognize the corresponding discursive phenomenon and designate it as inter-discourse semantic dissociation (hereinafter - dissociation).

Along with the above, we believe that dissociation arises not only as a result of Saussure's negativism of the language, but also as a result of the natural process limitations of linguistic consciousness (Miller, 1956), which implements informational metabolism. Having conditionally designated the information maximum, which theoretically can be produced by a specific respondent in our experiment for - 1, the described inter-discourse semantic dissociation will have the following logical and mathematical expression:

In the above formula: D1, D2, D3 - discourses; k - non-discursive factors affecting the probability of certain discourses appearing in the quarantine concept, as in the case we observed with the example - ISOLATION OF INFECTED and HEALTH PRESERVATION (see Table 2).

On the other hand, returning to the identified features of the NUMBER OF DISCOURSE predictor, one cannot help but assume the existence of an association-like connection. This, at first glance, creates a paradox - dissociatively interacting discourses are simultaneously related associatively. This obvious contradiction can be resolved by a systemic distinction of layers (semantic spaces), where the indicated dissociations and associations have taken place.

The horizontal layer is represented by the functional interaction of discourses as structural components of the system (blue arrows with large dashed lines, Fig. 1). Note that at this level, the system also includes non-discursive factors (indicated in italics, Fig. 1). The vertical layer is formed through the meaning contribution by each discourse to the semantics of the quarantine concept as a supersystem. Thus, horizontal inter-discourse dissociation does not prevent the formation of positive connections - vertically integrated associations that are formed indirectly through the category of the supersystem (quarantine).

Fig. 1. The hierarchical structure of the discursive formation of the quarantine concept

In the proposed scheme (Fig. 1), the blue arrows on the inter-discourse connections indicate the object of dissociation (deactualized one).

Note that there have been two pairs of discourses with two-way blue arrows: VIRUS DISSEMINATION and SANITATION AND HYGIENE, as well as BUREAUCRATIC RESPONSE and CONTACT RESTRICTION.

The bilateral nature of dissociation, in our opinion, indicates of opposition-like relations between the respective discourses. Unidirectional dissociation, as discussed above, is due to the negativity of the language and the process limitations of informational metabolism as we prone to suggest. Although in the case of bilateral dissociation, it is logical to assume the participation of additional factors in the hierarchization of inter-discourse relationships. The stated hierarchical features impart to the discursive field a specific organization, which transforms the field into a discursive formation of the quarantine concept (Fig. 1). We believe that the proposed view of quarantine as a semantic category of linguistic consciousness might have a potentially useful applied perspective. For example, when conducting mass alerts of citizens, organizing educational communication of health authorities with the population, introducing a quarantine regime at enterprises and institutions, etc., it is important to consider that the rhetoric about controlling of the virus spreading automaticall y deactivates the topic of sanitary and hygienic measures. Obviously, discursive semantics is associated with cognitive focus, which, in turn, affects the direction and consequences of proper behavior. Therefore, considering the structural and semantic features of the discursive formation (Fig. 1) in above cases could help increase the productivity and effectiveness of informational anti-epidemiological policies.

Returning to the question of inter-discourse opposition-like relations, one ought to note the following. We did formulate a hypothesis regarding the nature of this phenomenon by researching the predictive effect of studied discourses on such dependent variables as DYNAMICS OF WELL-BEING, CHANGES IN EVERYDAY LIFE and respondents' preferences of quarantine strategies. So, an ordinal regression analysis was carried out (Table 3), according to which the VIRUS DISSEMINATION and the BUREAUCRATIC RESPONSE discourses were found among the reliable predictors of the SYSTEMIC STRATEGY choice by respondents.

The latter, according to our initial assumptions at the planning stage of the study, should have been the preferred choice of respondents with an obsessive-compulsive (pedantic) type of character (Reich, 1990). The leading mechanism of psychological defense of this character type is an affect isolation (Reich, 1990). The work of this protective mechanism is accompanied by the disengagement of ego-consciousness from emotional experiences and the formation of intrusive patterns of cognitive activity, which rationalized by representatives of an appropriate character as means of streamlining, structuring, controlling and ensuring predictability of their lives under uncertainty and chaos conditions. Substantial correspondence of the discourses semantics of VIRUS DISSEMINATION and BUREAUCRATIC RESPONSE to cognitive and behavioral features of the character type under consideration is obvious and indicative. Moreover, both of these discourses found a power of statistically significant negative prediction of respondents' preferences for a DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY (see Table 3).

This strategy, according to our assumptions, is associated with the antipode of the obsessive-compulsive character - the hysterical (demonstrative) one (Reich, 1990), which psychodynamics is due to the mechanism of psychological defense - bodily-motor reaction (Reich, 1990). In this regard, it is logical to suppose the existence of: (a) the relationship between discourses and psychological defense mechanisms, that contributes to the construction of hierarchical structure of discursive formations; (b) the differential interaction of discourses and psychological defense mechanisms, that allows us to assert of the discursive aspect of the characterological profile and to consider a discourse as an operator of characterological semantics. psychological quarantine consciousness

We emphasize that both theses can only be partially justified, since the results of ordinal regression (Table 3) do not allow extrapolating the corresponding conclusions to another dialectically interconnected pair of characters - narcissistic-phallic (dominant) and passive-feminine (passive), which form the structural basis of characterological diversity all together with mentioned above two types (Reich, 1990).

Table 3. Ordinal regression (predictors - discourses)

We believe that for further empirical verification of these issues it is necessary to significantly increase the sample - both in quantitative and in linguistic- cultural relations. At the end of the publication, let us pay attention to some others interesting, in our opinion, results of ordinal regression. Positive changes in psychological well-being during the quarantine period are reliably predicted by the conciseness of the corresponding definitions and the reverse tendency in texts, that describing the opposite of quarantine (anti-quarantine). We believe, this feature correlates with the results of text studies within the framework of the psychosemiotic approach, which reveal the respective relationship between the texts volume and the subjective attitude of the authors to the textual content, whether pleasant or traumatic (Novikova-Grund, 2011).

Another interesting observation is that the respondents' well-being improves significantly with the increase in the number of days spent on self-isolation and by the number of their sick acquaintances (see Table 3). It can be assumed that in the first case, respondents at least partially associated the corresponding experience with vacation (the time of self-isolation for each respondent was paid by the employers in full, regardless of the period of quarantine related absence out of the workplace). In the second case, in our opinion, it might be occurred a decrease of anxiety (and, as a result, improvement of well-being) due to the projective mechanism - «this did not happen to me». One way or another, both phenomena should be studied more deeply and thoroughly, because in our study there are no data that would allow confidently to avoid inadvertent speculations for the matter.

Conclusions

Covid-19 related quarantine is represented in the linguistic consciousness of Russian-speaking Ukrainians by a discursive field, which includes at least nine recognizable, semantically autonomous discourses. Empirically found and described such phenomenon as - inter-discourse semantic dissociation. Its essence is a statistically significant reduction in the probability of some discourses appearing in the texts when others are actualized there. This feature is associated with the negativity of the language and determines the tendentiousness (biasing) of the semantic filling of the quarantine concept. Inter-discourse semantic dissociation, as well as the influence of non-discursive factors constitute the discursive formation of the quarantine concept, which is qualitatively characterized by the hierarchical relationship of its components. Partial empirical confirmation has been found of the previously put forward assumptions about:

(a) the existence of such a relationship between discourses and psychological defense mechanisms (as characterforming factors) that contributes to the hierarchical structure construction of discursive formations;

(b) the differential interaction of discourses and mechanisms of psychological defenses, that makes it possible to single out the discursive aspect of the characterological profile and consider discourse as an operator of characterological semantics.

We consider the prospects for further studies of the quarantine concept with, firstly, an increasing in the empirical sample, both in quantitative and linguistic-cultural relations and providing the possibility of comparative cross-ethnic research of the actual subject matter. Secondly, a deeper study of the influence on the quarantine concept semantics by the corresponding category of non-discursive factors, including the differential psychological characteristics of linguistic consciousness subjects.

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