Doctor Habil. (Linguistics), Associate Professor, Head and Leading Re-search Fellow of the Centre for Emerging Practices, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pro-fessor at the Department of Applied and Experimental Linguistics, Mos-cow State Linguistic University, Russia, Moscow, komalova@inion.ru
The paper analyzes the fairy tale “The Snow Queen” by the Danish writer G.H. Andersen, who is considered one of the founders of the literary fairy tale gen-re. The research aims to test the hypothesis about the possibility of presenting a se-mantic map of the literature work based on the frequency analysis of the vocabulary presented in it. Manual and automatic text processing made it possible to determine the level of complexity of the fairy tale, identify its semantic core and characterize it as a fairy tale for girls aged 9–14. The “Snow Queen” fairy tale will be useful for educational purposes, since at the lexical level a wide range of semantic categories are presented describing the macro- and microenvironment that surrounds the char-acters, their cognitive characteristics and skills, and their emotional sphere. It can be concluded that a formal analysis of the fairy tale at the lexical level gives a parent only some grounds for making a choice, leaving uncovered the value and moral-educational potential of the fairy tale.
magic fairy tale; G.H. Andersen; Snow Queen; Gerda; Kai; frequency; semantic map.
Download textFor citing: Komalova L.R. (2025) Semantic map of “The Snow Queen” fairy tale: what word frequencies show us? Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow. INION RAN.Vol. 2 (62). pp. 69-88. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2025.02.04