NATIONAL PECULIARITIES IN PERCEPTION OF THE SEASONS IN THE RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES (on psycholinguistic experiment data)

The article presents the results of a psycholinguistic experiment, aimed to identify and describe the conceptual layer of the concepts summer and autumn in the minds of modern native Russian and English lan- guages speakers and thus to show the difference in perception of the concepts of the seasons. As the concept is a multidimensional unit, which includes not only meaning and definition, but also connotative, figurative, evalua- tion, associative characteristics so all of them must be taken into account when describing the concept. These characteristics may be considered as signs of difference in mentality of different nations