ENVIRONMENTAL CONCEPTS IN THE LINGUISTIC CONSCIOUSNESS OF RUSSIAN AND CHINESE STUDENTS (BASED ON THE DATA OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC EXPERIMENTS)

Abstract

Since the issues of nature preservation and environmental protection have become one of the most important for all mankind, it seems relevant to trace the attitude of representatives of different cultures to environmental issues, in this case, that of Russian and Chinese students. In view of this, the purpose of the article is to identify and compare environmental concepts that exist in the linguistic consciousness of representatives of different cultures. The research uses the method of psycholinguistic experiment. In accordance with the stated goal, the following tasks are performed: using thematic modeling, a comparison is made of the associative-verbal fields of the stimuli ecology and green (reflecting the most important environmental concepts of respondents), which were recorded in a free associative experiment conducted among Russian and Chinese students of Saint Petersburg universities, an identification of both the general directions of association related to the universality and globality of environmental issues as well a the discrepant concepts of Russian and Chinese students caused by the uniqueness of national cultures, traditions and mindsets is carried out.