ASSOCIATIONS AS REFLECTIONS OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S CONSCIOUSNESS

Abstract

This article is an overview of the results of the associative experiment in revealing some specific linguocultural peculiarities of a notion “request” in the consciousness of the representatives of the Russian and the English linguocultures.For this purpose, a free associative experiment among Russian and American students was carried out. The results of the experiment demonstrated that the Russian respondents have a different image of “request” in comparison with the one of the American respondents. The methodology described in the article allows to unveil the inner contents of the notion “request” and the peculiarities of individual assessment of a request in the consciousness of native speakers.

Keywords

• ассоциативный эксперимент
• сознание
• лингвокультура
• associative experiment
• consciousness
• linguoculture