THE ASSOCIATIVE FIELD OF MONGOLIAN SOMATISMS ‘ТОЛГОЙ’, ‘ГАР’, "Х0Л", ‘Н^’, ‘НУД’, ‘ЧИХ’, ‘ХАМАР’: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
In modern-day anthropocentric studies, the language and its interlingual expression have of paramount importance. The centerpiece of language culture is the words that are emerging from the linguistic worldview of a native speaker, which contains cultural reflection ingrained in their conscious mind. In the paper the author discusses results of directional association research, in which 7 somatic words with the meaning of “head’, “hand”, “feet”, “face”, “eye”, “ear”, and “nose” are chosen as stimuli. A total of 216 native Mongolian speakers have participated in this research. The obtained data are considered from the standpoint of stereotype, associative dominants and categorical distribution of reactions. The results of the research are compared with works with corresponding data obtained from Russian and Chinese native speakers [1]. The analysis made it possible to establish invariable and variable regions of the interlingual space of associative fields of somatism.