Evaluative and quality assessment nominations in the Yakut Linguoculture

Abstract

The article considers the national and cultural specifics of evaluative and quality assessment nominations in the Yakut linguoculture. The results of a free associative experiment highlight the systemic nature of images in a person's linguistic consciousness, as well as the national characteristics of words in the Yakut culture. The experiment materials representing a fragment of a person's verbal memory reveal the systemic nature of associative and semantic connections based on syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships. It is necessary to associations that have special semantics, including a wide cultural and historical background. Extensive associative and semantic links develop both stable traditions and the peculiarities of mindset: devotion to the origins revealing the deep meaning of each word. Evaluative nominations as part of the language can become the key to understanding a person and their values-based worldview.