LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION OF THE STIMULUS-WORDS OF THE CONCEPT “CULTURE” IN THE LANGUAGE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE SPEAKERS

The article is devoted to the semantic analysis of stimulus words of the concept "culture" in the lan- guage consciousness of English language speakers. There are 15 stimulus words, which were revealed as a result of the analysis of 25 Russian and 25 English definitions of the word “culture”. The associative experiment is the basic method to get the world image of language speakers. Analysis of stimulus-words nature, creation, monu- ment, clothes, talent is presented in this article. Comments on the received reactions to stimulus-words are of interesting material, revealing the content and meaning of the stimulus-word