The Analysis of Associative Fields of Words-Stimuli МИР / МИР / МІР (PEACE) in East-Slavonic Languages

The free associative experiment is the traditional language awareness method ofstudying. Language consciousness investigations via associative experiments permit to represent thesystem of linguistic consciousness (not only the extent of a certain words in their reflections in mind) asa coherent andcohesive unit. It showsa unique picture of the world in each culture. The article isdevoted to comparative psycholinguistic analyses of the associative fields of the words-stimuli МИР /МИР / МІР (peace). Common and specific features of the corresponding parts of the world reflection inminds of the Ukrainians, the Russians and the Byelorussians are described in it. Associative gestalt wasused in our research to makea structure of all theresearchassociative materials. The nuclear andperiphery of the associative gestalt was defined in each language under analyses.The largest differencesare found: 1) in different number of zones among three gestalts; 2) in existence of separate zones just ina certain gestalt in contrast to others; 3) in different zones’ degree that defines their rank and position ingestalts; 4) in quantitative and qualitative zones’ composition; 5) in gestalt kernels. &nbsp