Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol 15, No 3 (2022)

LANGUAGE CONSCIOUSNESS OF YAKUT LANGUAGE SPEAKERS

Marina Ilyinichna Kysylbaikova

Abstract


The paper proposes results of the analysis of the language consciousness through the concepts “Culture”, “Language”, “Nature”, “History”, “Love”, “Beauty”, “Family”. The aim of work is to reveal the core component of the language consciousness of Yakut language speakers. The main method of study is the associative experiment (questioning), which was held among more than 2000 people. Respondents of experiment are people of 25-65 ages, students, different specialties, for example teachers, engineers, doctors, businessmen, designers, actors, accountants etc. As a result, the analysis of associations shows that the language consciousness of Yakut people is totally connected with the national traditional culture. Most of associations to different concepts are related to the Yakut traditions, culture, literature, beliefs, nature, science etc. The analysis of the data obtained from the results of a free associative experiment depicts that the structure of different concepts under study clearly shows the ethnocultural features of the representation of Yakut language speakers. Results of research work can be used as the material for future study of Psycholinguistics, General Linguistics, Theory of Language etc.