The associative field of the value ‘tolerance’ as a tool to describe the Russian language speaker picture of consciousness
In this article the definition and peculiarities of the value ‘tolerance’ functioning in Russian linguistic consciousness is specified on the basis of certain experimental data; the description of the value ‘tolerance’ and its representation in Russian linguistic consciousness are provided in order to reveal gender characteristics and age specific features of how this very value is realized in linguistic consciousness. the results of applying the association method, used to reveal the knowledge of language speakers about social realm, are described. the association experiment is understood as experimental psycholinguistic research aimed at examining language consciousness, giving a possibility to describe the content and the subject of language signs just the way they actually exist in consciousness. thus, the experiment gives a possibility to observe and specify that Russian consciousness bears and includes the image of respect to unfamiliar and foreign and the perception of unfamiliar and foreign without hostility and contradiction, which is determined as true tolerance.