The system of values of the Russian image of the world in the psycholinguistic aspect (based on the results of a free associative experiment)

The aim of the research is a psycholinguistic substantiation of the systemic nature of the representation of the Russian person’s personal value nominations at the present stage of society development. The article considers the linguistic realization of values in the form of value names, which are represented in the soft hierarchy of system elements. The most significant values were identified on the basis of a pilot survey of respondents, ranked, in accordance with the participants’ assessments. The names of values create a system of a soft hierarchy, where the closest connections in the form of interrelated dyads are observed in the core. The associative experiment showed the presence of associative connections between the analyzed names of values. The zone of the near periphery is represented by several dyads and a triad, the zone of the near periphery is represented by values with weak connections between the elements. The scientific novelty of the research is that it provides, for the first time, an analysis of the systemic nature of the axiological sphere of the early 21st century on the basis of the Russian language as one of the spheres of the Russian image of the world. As a result of the research, the dynamics of the axiological sphere was revealed, which manifests itself in changes in the associative components in its structure, which, under the influence of various factors, leads to a change in the content and the very structure of the value space of the Russian native speaker and Russian culture in the 21st century as a whole.