REPRESENTATION OF ASSOCIATIVE FIELD OF THE LEXEME “PLAY” IN THE CHILD’S LINGUISTIC WORLDVIEW: COMPARATIVE ASPECT

The article examines linguistic representation of the associative field of the lexeme “play” in the lin- guistic worldview of a child ? the hero of the autobiographic stories of childhood and his contemporary living at the beginning of the XXI century. The author identifies how common the lexeme “play” is among modern chil- dren, discovers the specifics of the world perception and linguistic worldview of the children of the past and modern children and provides a comparative analysis of appropriate thematic groups. The autobiographic stories by S. T. Aksakov “Childhood Years of Bagrov-Grandson”, N. G. Garin-Mikhailovsky “Tyoma's Childhood”, A. N. Tolstoy “Nikita's Childhood”, V. P. Astafyev “The Last Bow” and a free associative experiment data served as material for the research