Experience Of Creating An Associative Dictionary Of The Uzbek Language
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The article reports the experience of creating an innovative dictionary in Uzbek linguistics -the first associative dictionary. Opposing to other associative dictionaries, this one chooses national-cultural lexemes for stimulus words. The following issues connected with the structure of the dictionary are dealt with: the choice of the national-cultural lexemes as stimulus words, type of the associative experiment, and practical significance of the dictionary. The relations to the existing in the world associative dictionaries are expressed, the order of creating the dictionary, experimental methods justifying the dictionary have been studied. The difference between a free associative experiment and a contextual associative experiment are given, the choice of the contextual associative experiment is explained. There are data on correspondence to the tried and tested procedure of creating a dictionary. National and cultural peculiarities of some associations have been disclosed. Basing on the analysis a conclusion has been done that the Uzbeks have associative thinking, on their perception of the national-cultural lexemes, level of knowledge and relation to cultural values. The importance of the dictionary as a source of necessary examples of the folklore, Uzbek national traditions, national-cultural ideas studied in folklore science has been given. The reaction words represent socio-political, religious, historical terms which reflect political, religious views of the native speakers which are important for these fields. Important material for such spheres of linguistics as lexicology, semantics, grammar as well psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, cultural linguistics, pragmalinguistics, sociological linguistics, ethnolinguistics has been shown.