ECOLOGICAL COMPONENT OF THE ASSOCIATIVE-VERBAL FIELD NATURE IN THE LINGUISTIC CONSCIOUSNESS OF NATIVE RUSSIAN SPEAKERS (ACCORDING TO DICTIONARIES OF ASSOCIATIVE NORMS)

Abstract

It is well known that environmental issues related to the protection of nature and the environment have become very important for the modern society, and therefore it seems relevant to identify its place in the linguistic consciousness of native Russian speakers based on the data of psycholinguistic experiments. With this objective in view, it is attempted in the article to reveal the volume and nature of associations related to the ecological perceptions of native Russian speakers, that is to human activities aimed at nature and to the value-evaluative attitude towards it. The method of thematic modeling of the associative-verbal field nature, recorded by three reputable dictionaries of associative norms of the late 20th – early 21st centuries, is used for this purpose. It is concluded that in the minds of native Russian speakers, the value-evaluative perception of nature prevails over the activity-oriented attitude towards it.