The Image of the Family in the Minds of Russian-Speaking Representatives of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan

The article deals with the identification of the image of the family in the minds of the Russian-speaking representatives of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan and with the comparison of the resulting image with the image of the family in the minds of representatives of Russian culture. The relevance of the study is determined by the insufficient research of the Kyrgyz linguistic picture of the world from the point of view of psycholinguistics.
Free association experiment and semantic gestalt technique were key research methods. The author analyzed 259 associations obtained in the course of a free associative experiment and the results of a directed associative experiment in which 82 participants took part. The identification of the image of the family concept in the minds of the bearers of Russian culture was based on the the associations recorded in the associative dictionaries of the Russian language (the Russian Regional Associative Dictionary Thesaurus and the Slavic Associative Dictionary) were analyzed. A total of 1130 associations from two dictionaries were analyzed. The data obtained during the free associative experiment, as well as the associations recorded in lexicographic sources, were analyzed using the semantic gestalt technique of Yu. N. Karaulov.
As a result of the study, the structure of the associative field of the stimulus word family among representatives of modern Kyrgyz culture was determined. In the course of a comparative analysis, similarities and differences in the associative gestalt of representatives of Russian and Kyrgyz culture were identified.
The theoretical and practical significance of the work is due, first of all, to the fact that the methodology used in the work, can be successfully applied in organizing and conducting further psycholinguistic research of both the Kyrgyz and any other culture. The obtained results can be used in the course of studying courses in the theory of language, psycholinguistics, linguoculturology, intercultural communication.

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