THE CONCEPT “TIME” AND ITS REFLECTION IN THE ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN-SPEAKING WORLD IMAGES

Abstract

The article presents results of associative and receptive experiments among native speakers of English and Russian. A total of 200 people took part in the experiment. The concept “time”, which is one of the main concepts in the picture of the world of any nation, acted directly as an incentive word. This experiment allows to compare the language world image of native speakers of English and Russian, to identify their similarities and differences today. The material allows to conclude that the national specifics of the concept “время/ time” reflects the peculiarities of the perception of this phenomenon by native speakers of English and Russian languages, where the signs of actualism prevail in the English-speaking world image, and in the Russian-speaking world image – signs of a futuristic perception of time.