Study of the Covid-19 Related Quarantine Concept as an Emerging Category of a Linguistic Consciousness Исследование концепта коронавирусного карантина как новой категории языкового сознания

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 socio-demographic 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.


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 fl u (Rosenwald, 2020). Despite to the century of scientifi c and technological acceleration that has passed since then, the main global response to the pandemic remains quarantine yet. The fi rst 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 scientifi c 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 fi rst wave of social and humanitarian studies. On the one hand, in the research community itself there is no consistency pertaining the semantic fi eld 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 signifi cant, both scientifi cally and theoretically, and from an applicability point of view as well. © Шимко Віт алій & Бабаджанова Анжел а

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, fi rstly, 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 offi ces 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 offi cially 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 defi nition 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 clarifi cation of quarantine defi nitions; (b) making reconstruction of the implied meanings of quarantine when the respondents borrowed the corresponding defi nitions 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). Specifi ed 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 defi nitions were classifi ed and quantifi ed 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 defi ned 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 identifi cation 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 fi rst and second ones the experts were engaged (four scientists, practical researchers with more than 20 years of professional background in the fi eld of applied psycholinguistics). At the fi rst step, each expert independently analyzed every text and formed the initial classifi cation of the identifi ed 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, clarifi ed the semantics of previously derived discourses and achieved terminological unifi cation, as a result of which the list was reduced to nine positions that form the discursive fi eld 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, fi fth 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.

SANITATION AND HYGIENE
Sanitary and hygiene products and their use, preventive measures. Quarantine behavior (awareness, caution, discipline), including social distancing, remote work and self-isolation. The internality aspect. Activity.
3. ISOLATION OF INFECTED Isolation of infected and sick people, as well as those who have been in contact with them (ones suspected of being infected). Segregation aspect.

(**) TOTAL ISOLATION
Isolation of healthy people. Bilateral, mixed, mass, territorial and/or any non-specifi ed isolation.

(**) HEALTH CARE
Preservation, maintenance and promotion of health. Treatment of patients, contribution to their recovery. Medicines and drugs in the aspect of the means of recovery/maintaining health.

(**) RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS INFRINGEMENT
Restriction (infringement, deprivation) of human rights and freedoms in connection with quarantine. The repressive aspect with «justifying» rationalization (for a good cause, in the name of a noble/useful goal, etc.).

BUREAUCRATIC RESPONSE
The introduction of offi cial standards and regulations by the authorities. Socio-legal and medical-infrastructural aspects of state (societal) regulation. Epidemic statistics and other studies. Organization of public awareness (alert system).
Note: (*) -hereinafter in the tables and statistical reports of the SPSS it is necessary to distinguish the numbering of discourses in the datasets for 9 and 7 discourses respectively; (**) -in wake of cluster analysis, the marked discourses were combined under the name HEALTH PRESERVATION and the dataset were rearranged accordingly, which caused a change in the general numbering of discourses in the statistics posted in the repository.
Separately we note that for the purpose of discourses quantifi cation 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 confi ne ourselves to setting out the most basic semantic characteristics of the discursive fi eld 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 signifi cance. Appropriate specifying parameters and details, as noted, are available online for review and study (Shymko & Babadzhanova, 2020).

Results
The results are focused on the discourses that were distinguished by experts in the textual defi nitions of quarantine. The fi rst orienting idea about the functional structure of the discursive fi eld, as well as the existence and nature of the discourses interconnections with other parameters studied, can be formed from the results of correlation analysis (Shymko & Babadzhanova, 2020: ZORR3U). At the same time, binary logistic regression is the most interesting and informative one. Its statistically signifi cant results are presented in Table 2. Note that in addition to the traditional criteria for assessing regression models fi tness, the Hosmer and Lemeshow Goodness-of-Fit Test was also used (in all cases we found out p> .050, i.e., the hypothesis of acceptable levels of models' fi tness were accepted). Note: (*) -displays the signifi cance of improving the regression model; (**) -part of the dispersion covered by logistic regression (maх = 1); (***) -the proportion of reliable predictions based on the model.
A general assessment of the results draws attention to several specifi c points. Firstly, statistically reliable predictors of discourses, predominantly, turned out to be other discourses. Moreover, the corresponding relationships with independent variables have been always negative. That is, for example, the presence in the quarantine defi nition of discourses VIRUS DISSEMINATION and / or CONTACT RESTRICTION signifi cantly reduces the probability of the SANITATION AND HYGIENE discourse emergence. This feature resembles the data distribution structure observed when ranking variables. For example, in our study, respondents had rated their preference out of four quarantine strategies. At the fi rst step of the assessment, when one of the strategies, for example, was evaluated by maximum rank (4), the other three automatically «moved down» to a lower ranking position. At the next evaluation step, one of the remaining strategies received rank (3), which again lowered the ranking position of the two other alternatives and so on. Such an assessment technology naturally determines the negativity of statistical relationships between ranked variables. However, we have observed a similar picture in a fundamentally different situation -the distribution of binomial variables, the values of which in this case objectively could not depend on the experimental conditions and the measuring scale used for the parameter. In our opinion, this might indicate the naturally presence of such discourse interaction mechanism, which is similar to the just described infl uence of the ranking procedure onto the empirical data distribution. In other words, we suggest that discourses are hierarchically organized. In the next section of this article, we will return to discussing this nuance, and now we continue to review the general results of binary logistic regression.
Secondly, the NUMBER OF DISCOURSES appeared to be a positive predictor for the most discourses. However, there are two exceptions -ISOLATION OF INFECTED and HEALTH PRESERVATION. The prediction of these parameters is not related to the NUMBER OF DISCOURSES. The described statistical features suggest that the variables reliably dependent on the NUMBER OF DISCOURSES (i.e. -CONTACT RESTRICTION, SANITATION AND HYGIENE, VIRUS DISSEMINATION, LIFESTYLE CHANGES, and BUROCRATIC RESPONSE) are associatively related between themselves. And that lead to an increase in the probability of their emergence as the pithiness of defi nitions grow. We believe that these discourses form a stable semantic core of the quarantine concept in the linguistic consciousness of respondents.
Therefore, thirdly, those discourses and their predictors that are not included in the specifi ed core are of particular interest. The dependent variable ISOLATION OF INFECTED connected with the non-discursive predictor CHANGES IN EVERYDAY LIFE, the negativity of which (see Table 2) is conditional. So, this parameter has an ordinal measuring scale that displays the degree of changes in everyday life routine, according to the respondents' ratings: from 1no changes to 4 -dramatic changes (Shymko & Babadzhanova, 2020: HO7EWG). Thus, the probability of the ISOLATION OF INFECTED discourse emergence in the quarantine defi nition is the higher, the less changes in the daily life of respondents have been and vice versa. This feature makes us suggest the play of some egocentric attitude of the respective respondents, manifested by the principle: «quarantine is for infected ones». In other words, we are implying on reluctance of those respondents to identify themselves with the diseased ones. An indirect confi rmation of the indicated egocentrism of this category of respondents might be found as well in the following observation. The discourse ISOLATION OF INFECTED, in turn, acts as a negative predictor in relation to the discourses VIRUS DISSEMINATION and BUREAUCRATIC RESPONSE (see Table 2). That is, respondents who had not been experiencing changes in everyday life routine and discussing isolation of infected ones are not inclined to actualize any other collective aspects of the quarantine problem.
It is noteworthy that the non-discursive criterion CHANGES IN EVERYDAY LIFE also acts as a positive predictor for the discourse CONTACT RESTRICTION, increasing its probability together with the two already mentioned negative predictors (VIRUS DISSEMINATION and BUREAUCRATIC RESPONSE) and another negative one -HEALTH PRESERVATION (see Table 2). At the same time, the last parameter as a dependent variable is positively predicted by independent non-discursive variable -SELF-ISOLATION (DAYS). That is, quarantine concept will most likely be defi ned in the context of maintaining and promoting health by those respondents who have got some experience of being on self-isolation.

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 (affi rmative) 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 fi nd 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 defi ned 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) refl ect 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 specifi city 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 signifi cant 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 specifi c 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 specifi c respondent in our experiment for -1, the described inter-discourse semantic dissociation will have the following logical and mathematical expression: (1) 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 identifi ed features of the NUMBER OF DISCOURSE predictor, one cannot help but assume the existence of an association-like connection. This, at fi rst 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 connectionsvertically integrated associations that are formed indirectly through the category of the supersystem (quarantine). 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 fi eld a specifi c organization, which transforms the fi eld 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 automatically 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 signifi cant 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 profi le and to consider a discourse as an operator of characterological semantics. Note: (*) -displays the signifi cance of improving the regression model; (**) -part of the dispersion covered by logistic regression (maх. = 1); (***) -There are signifi cant amount of cells > 60% (i.e., dependent variable levels by observed combinations of predictor variable values) with zero frequencies, which affects the parameter χ 2 . In this regard, we assessed the respective quality of the current and other regression models by the Pearson criterion (in all cases, the level p> .050, necessary for the applicability of the analysis, was observed).
We emphasize that both theses can only be partially justifi ed, 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). We believe that for further empirical verifi cation of these issues it is necessary to signifi cantly increase the sample -both in quantitative and in linguisticcultural 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 defi nitions 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 signifi cantly 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 fi rst 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 confi dently 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 fi eld, 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 signifi cant 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 fi lling of the quarantine concept. Inter-discourse semantic dissociation, as well as the infl uence 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», that forms the stable semantic core of the quarantine concept.
Partial empirical confi rmation 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 profi le and consider discourse as an operator of characterological semantics.
We consider the prospects for further studies of the quarantine concept with, fi rstly, 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 infl uence on the quarantine concept semantics by the corresponding category of non-discursive factors, including the differential psychological characteristics of linguistic consciousness subjects.