Psycholinguistic Peculiarities of the Use of Angloamericanisms in Ukrainian

The article deals with the problem of psycholinguistic peculiarities of the use of the American-English loans. The main task of the research is to educe the features of their assimilation by the students in the conditions of educational bilingualism. The knowledge of a foreign language can affect the perception of the loans and can distort their understanding. As an examinee the students of foreign languages and flight operations faculties were involved, as the example of the carriers of artificial bilingualism. The psycholinguistic and associative experiments are used. It contains such procedures: preselection of the newest loans, and also producing to the participants of the experiment of the list of the tasks, including the description of associations. An experimental list consists of twenty-three words related to the most frequent thematic subsystems in the adopting language: business, economy, entertainments, sport and fashion. Free associative experiment provides the material for building associative fields of certain concepts, reconstruction of fragments of language and conceptual pictures of the world.

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Tetiana Leleka has an academic title of Ph.D. in Philology. She is an Associate Professor of the Translation, Applied and General Linguistics Department ofVolodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University, Ukraine.