linguistic consciousness

The article considers the thematic group "Supernatural beings" in the associative-verbal network of Russian native speakers. Russian associative dictionaries, as well as the texts of the Russian National Corpus (the main subcorpus, the period from 1950 to present time), were used as the research material, which allowed us to compare associative data with discourse, to establish correlations between the functional features of the group's units and their associative connections in the minds of Russian native speakers.

The article discusses the potential of a psycholinguistic association experiment in the study of professional and personal distinguishing features of language consciousness in physicians. Research findings support the idea of associative reactions being professionally determined and of their congruency with the parcels recorded in the lexical-semantic field «Disease».