SECONDARY LANGUAGE PERSONALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTU

The article is devoted to the functioning of a secondary language personality in the context of culture. The key notions “language and culture” and “bilingualism” are defined. The aim of the article is to analyze the linguistic and culture pictures of the world of the Russian-Greek bilinguals on the basis of comparative associations within the zoomorphic culture codes. One of the experiments we conducted was based on the zoomorphic code of the Russian and the Greek languages. This experiment made it possible to compare the pictures of the world of monolinguals – the bearers of the Greek and the Russian languages – and bilinguals possessing in different degrees both languages. The choice of zoonyms for the experiment was not accidental since they can be considered to be an entity of the most ancient literary symbols. 45 schoolchildren from 7 to 12 years old including 15 Russian-speaking monolinguals, 15 children who speak only Greek, and 15 RussianGreek bilinguals took part in this experiment. Bilinguals were asked to complete the assignment twice – in Russian and in Greek with an interval of 8 weeks. The results of the experiment have showed that the strategies of associating by the same bilinguals vary depending on the language used; associative reactions of bilinguals are richer than reactions of monolinguals; bilinguals successfully combine the images of two cultures since it is obvious that the same zoonyms are manifested and perceived differently in the compared languages.