SYNCHRONIC-DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS OF “I” IN THE LANGUAGE CONSCIOUSNESS OF MODERN CHINESE AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES

Abstract

(on the basis of associative experiments). The article presents the ways of representation of the image of “I” in the linguistic consciousness of modern Chinese and Russian speakers on the material of free associative experiments. The study analyzes the results of statistical processing and classification of word-reactions of Russian and Chinese subjects, and structures the associative field of the word-stimulus “I”. Ethnocultural features of the language are manifested in the units, characteristic only for this language – words, word forms and their combinations, as well as in the rules of their use, which is reflected in one way or another in the associative experiment. When comparing the core of the linguistic consciousness of speakers of different languages, it is possible to reveal the systematic nature of their worldview. By means of synchronic and diachronic comparison of the proportions of each semantic zone the similarities and differences in the content and structure of the associative gestalt of the word-stimulus “I” are examined, and the ethno-cultural features of the representations in the Chinese and Russians are revealed.