Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices (Dec 2008)
VERBAL ASSOCIATIONS AS THE CULTURAL PHENOMENON. ASSOCIATIVE EXPERIMENT
Abstract
The aim of the article is to analyze verbal associations as the cultural phenomenon and to show, that an associative experiment is one of the most reliable and objective means to study the language conscience of an individual and ethnic nation as a whole. The analysis is based on the data from the Dictionary of the associative norms and my own associative experiment.