FREE ASSOCIATIVE EXPERIMENT OF THE WORD “RESPONSIBILITY / 责任” EMBODYING LINGUISTICCONSCIOUSNESS IN MODERN CHINESE STUDENTS

Abstract

This article discusses how ethnic and cultural image of «responsibility / 责任» is embodied in linguistic consciousness of Chinese students by means of the free associative experiment, analyzes its associative field,and identify the similarities and differences of associative field of Chinese students in terms of gender. Chinese traditional system of values is expressed by the concept of “responsibility”. In Chinese traditional society, Responsibility can be directly materialized by the norms of ethical behavior. National culture is an important aspect of the study of language consciousness; and free association experiment can effectively identify the characteristics of the national culture in human’s linguistic consciousness and embodies human’s linguistic psychology development.

Keywords

• Responsibility / 责任
• free associative experiment
• the image of the Chinese ethnicculture