Ассоциативная лексикография и исследования языкового сознания

The article discusses the genesis of associative lexicography in Russian psycholinguistics and its impact on the development of studies in the area of language consciousness in speakers of different languages. Special attention is paid to the use of an associative experiment in the associative dictionary compilation. The article reviews computer technologies used in creating associative database, analyses the language consciousness of Russian speakers, and its change over the last 50 years. The data of the Dictionary of Associative Norms of the Russian Language, Russian Associative Dictionary, and Russian Regional Associative Dictionary are compared.