From the experience of studying the concept "beauty":a free associative experiment

Abstract

The article considers the results of a free associative experiment of the stimulus word "beauty". An associative experiment was carried out in this study, the respondents were given the task: “Write your associations with the word “beauty”. The respondents were the adult population of the Karaganda region aged 18 to 50 years (students, education workers, service workers, pensioners, etc.). The education of the respondents was not taken into account. The total number of respondents is 100 people. The aim of the experiment was to observe the semantic fullness of the concept of "beauty" at the present stage of the functioning of Russian language in the Karaganda region, as well as to identify the dynamics of the linguistic and cognitive content of this concept.