Stimulus Word Friend as a Component of the Associative Field of Tolerance

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the survey of Tajikistan students. The students of Kulob State University (Kulob) and Kurgan-Tyube State University (Kurgan-Tyube), Khujand University named after B. Gafurov (Khujand), University of Central Asia (Khorog) participated in the association experiment. This survey is part of the study conducted by scientists of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the Russian-Tajik Slavonic University. The respondents were suggested to think on the reaction word friend (who? what?). They also had to write set expressions related to a stimulus word friend. The received reaction words were analyzed and divided into groups, each of which defined a stimulus word friend: a person (whom one may call a friend), type of a friend, quality of a friend, value of a friend, elements of friendship, result of friendship, enemy, money, time, etc. The novelty of this work is that for the first time the results of the association experiment with reactions to a stimulus word a friend in the youth environment of Tajikistan were analyzed. Keywordsfree associative experiment; stimulus word; reaction word; tolerance; respondent; association