THE PECULIARITIES OF PERCEPTION OF THE LEXEMES PEOPLE AND NATION BY THE UKRAINIAN YOUTH IN THE CONTEXT OF PRESENT-DAY CHRONOTOPOS

The article deals with the peculiarities of the perception by Ukrainian youth the lexemes people and nation. It also reveals social meanings linked in the minds of the Ukrainian youth with these lexical items at the present stage in the development of the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian society. The material of the article is based on the results of the associative experiment. The authors of the article offer their own vision of the mental and gender aspects in the perception of words stimuli people and nation by young people. They also prove the social precondition of the receptive activity of human consciousness, in particular the dependence of the perception of words as linguistic units on the conditions of social chronotopos.