PECULIARITIES OF LEXEME MANKIND PERCEPTION BY UKRAINIAN YOUTH IN THE CONTEXT OF PRESENT-DAY CHRONOTOPOS

The article deals with the peculiarities of perception of the lexical unit mankind by the Ukrainian youth. It also dwells upon the social senses associated with the semantics of this lexeme taking into account the present stage in the development of the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian community. The materials of the article are based on the results of the associative experiment. The authors suggest their own vision of gender and mental aspects of the young people perception of the word stimulus mankind as well as they prove the social conditionality of the receptive activities of human consciousness, in particular the dependence of perception of the word as the language unit on the conditions of social chronotopos