ASSOCIATIVE-SENSE FIELD OF THE LEXEMA “RUSSIA” IN REPRESENTATION BY MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE LINGUOCULTURE

Abstract

The article analyses models of associative-sense fields of the lexeme “Russia”, which are built on the basis of the material of the associative experiment. This experiment is carried out in two groups of representatives of the Chinese lingvoculture who speak Russian. One group is students from China, who have not visited Russia, the second one includes students who study in Russia. The research found significant similarities between the nuclear, near the nuclear and the near periphery zones of the associative-semantic fields of the lexeme “Russia” of the respondents of both groups. The nuclear zone in both cases is formed by the same proper names, in the nuclear zone there are language units of various thematic (“attractions”, “food”, drinks”, etc.) and grammatical groups (nouns, adjectives), and the zone of near periphery included words and phrases that name realities traditionally attributed to Russian reality. The similarity of the associative-semantic fields of the lexeme “Russia” of the two groups of respondents indicates a certain stability of cognitive structures (concepts) containing knowledge about any fragment of reality.