MODELING THE ASSOCIATIVE-VERBAL FIELD OF THE CONCEPT «STONE»

Zavgorodneva M.

The purpose of this study is to model the associative-verbal field of a concept «Stone». The material for the study was the reactions obtained as a result of a free associative experiment, in which 126 Russian-speaking subjects took part. The total number of received reactions is 763 units. The method of free associative experiment, classification technique, quantitative analysis, semantic interpretation of free associations were used in the work. In the aricle is shown a part of a model of the associative-verbal field of the concept «Stone», all reactions of which are distributed over 3 semantic modules and 28 micromodules, where the most frequent is the semantic module «PERSON» with micromodules «INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS», «ACTION / INACTION», «CHARACTER», «EVALUATION».

Keywords:category, associative-verbal field, free associative experiment, semantic module.