Abstract:

This scientific research is aimed at describing of semantic connotations of the emotional words joy, sadness, happiness, sorrow, anger, love, hatred, fear, envy, jealousy, conscience, hope in the Chinese language. To achieve the stated objective, the authors used the method of associative experiment as the most convenient way to visualize the linguistic consciousness of native speakers. With its help, one can judge about the features of the human linguistic consciousness functioning and the ways of constructing speech utterances, which are usually not recognized by native speakers and are not identified by other methods of investigation. Associations in this aspect are considered as one of the means of access to the human linguistic consciousness and the construction of the basic values of man and the ethnos as a whole on their basis. A large number of Chinese students in our university made it possible to conduct an associative experiment in a computer class where one hundred Chinese respondents aged 17-25, most of whom are atheists and do not represent any confessions, were asked to fill out a questionnaire translated into Chinese. According to the research ethics, the principle of anonymity was respected during the experiment. The questionnaires completed in Chinese were translated into Russian and thoroughly analyzed.

The article discusses some features of the mentality of Chinese students related to emotive vocabulary. The study of linguistic consciousness, the analysis of associative norms and the creation of associative dictionaries on their basis has recently become one of the priority areas in psycholinguistics. His most developed tool is the technique of a free associative experiment, with which one can draw conclusions about the peculiarities of the linguistic consciousness of one or another ethnos. The relevance of the topic of this work is connected with the study of language consciousness and the creation of associative dictionaries, which has recently become one of the priority directions in psycholinguistics. The purpose of the study is to describe the linguistic consciousness of the speakers of Chinese in the field of emotive vocabulary. The authors suggest that when working with Chinese, some features of the mentality of Chinese students in the field of emotive vocabulary should be taken into account.

Keywords:

Psycholinguistics, linguistic consciousness, associative field, associative experiment, semantic connotation.