Representation of the Linguistic and Cultural Concept of Maslenitsa in Neurotexts: a Contrastive Study with Language in Traditional Cultural Contexts

The representation of the linguistic concept of Maslenitsa in AI-generated texts is examined through its value, figurative, and cognitive dimensions. Maslenitsa, as a significant linguistic and cultural construct, serves as an effective instrument for elucidating the characteristics of concept formation in texts produced by neural networks. The objective of this study is to analyze the various components of the linguistic and cultural concept of "Maslenitsa" within neuralgenerated texts. This article examines the cultural and valued aspects (such as identification, unity, family, kindness), the figurative and symbolic elements (including blins, scarecrows, folk festivals, troikas, and sleigh rides), and the cognitive dimensions (comprising holiday, enjoyment, tradition, memory, seasonal changes, cyclical nature of life and social interactions) associated with the concept. A comparative analysis is conducted between its manifestations in folk speech and the data derived from the Russian National Corpus, the Tomsk dialect corpus, and recordings of Western Transbaikalia. The article further discusses characteristics and interpretations that diverge from conventional understandings of the holiday, while emphasizing the continuity of its core concepts amid the processes of desacralization and derivation of the Maslenitsa tradition. It investigates the semantic expansion surrounding the concept, exemplified by the symbolism attributed to blins as representations of labor and love, as well as the burning of effigies signifying mutual support. The study additionally uncovers significant distortions in the interpretation of traditional symbols, such as the perception of blins as "sun pobryakushka" and scarecrows as "matryoshka," which stem from stereotypes embedded in LLM at various levels of conceptual structure.

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