Kushmar L. The Vocabulary of the Economic sphere in the Ukrainian Language World

Object: fragments of the Ukrainian’s linguistic and conceptual pictures of the world reconstructed by means of comparison of lexical and associative meanings of the concepts in the economic sphere; the aim: to reproduce the fragment of Ukrainian’s linguistic picture of the world and to compare it with the conceptual picture of the world by comparison semantic and associative meanings of the concepts in the economic sphere; methods: descriptive, compative and design method, statistical methods, analysis of lexicographic definitions, elements of component analysis, and also receptions of comparative and historic-etymological analysis. Empiric material has been collected by the associative experiment; novelty: the method of the free associative experiment has been applied for studying vocabulary of the economic sphere; there has been discovered and formally presented similarities and differences in the structure of the appropriate fragments of the linguistic and conceptual pictures of the world on the basis of the comparison of lexical and associative meanings; results: The collected material is the basis for the conclusion of the associative meanings dictionary of the economic sphere words.