An Experimental Study of the Lingual Consciousness of Ukrainians and Russians (Dynamic Aspect)

Abstract. The study of the lingual consciousness of various ethnic group representatives does not lose its topicality in psycholinguistic investigation for decades. During the period of the formation and development of psycholinguistics, scientists have gained considerable experience in doing associative experiments, the results of which are reflected in associative dictionaries and individual scientific investigations. This material is valuable in several aspects of the investigation in particular as an object of the study of the lingual consciousness of the certain language speakers for the duration of the experiment; in the comparable aspect for the identification of common and distinguishing features in the lingual consciousness of the representatives of different ethnic groups as well as to find out the changes in the lingual consciousness of the representatives of a certain ethnic group according to the experimental data received at a certain time interval, etc. The article focuses on revealing the dynamics of the lingual consciousness of two East Slavic language speakers – Ukrainian and Russian. The material resulted from a series of experiments recorded in lexicographic psycholinguistic works and self-conducted studies held in 2000 and in 2012 representing the changes in the corresponding fragments of the world image of the Ukrainians and Russians.