STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF THE IMAGE EMPIREIN LINGUISTIC CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE MODERN ADOLESCENT (13-15 YEARS): EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

The article is dedicated to the problem of the influence of the computer games the linguistic consciousness of the modern adolescent. The subject of the research is the changing of the meaning of a word understood as a “subjective content of the sign image”. As a result of conducting a free associative experiment with adolescents aged 13-15 quantitative and qualitative changes were revealed in the content of the associative field of the word “Empire”.

linguistic consciousness, ontogeny, the meaning of a word, the influence of computer games the linguistic consciousness, associative experiment