COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FRAGMENTS OF RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN LANGUAGE CONSCIOUSNESS

The article presents the first results of the free associative experiment and examines the problem of interlingual equivalence between some stimulus words. We analyze the associative fields of the language units under consideration to reveal the similarities and differences between the images of Russian and Italian language consciousness. The results illustrate some peculiarities of the world image reflected in the consciousness of Italians and Russians.

language consciousness, associative field, lacuna, interlingual equivalence, world image, intercultural communication