Representation Of The Law Concept In The Language Consciousness Of Modern Students
Abstract
Legal consciousness is the subject of research in many sciences: philosophy, jurisprudence, psychology, psycholinguistics, etc. The basis of this study was the hypothesis that in the process of studying and gaining knowledge of law the students understand the lexical unit of law as representations or images that expressed by associative bonds with the words from their lexicon formed during the learning process. The purpose of the study was to model the semantic field of the lexical unit of law in the language consciousness of modern students and to assess the state of their legal consciousness. To interpret the data of the association experiment, the following procedures were carried out: all word-reactions of the subjects were distributed into thematic groups – associative (semantic) fields (AF); calculated, built from the most common word reactions (frequency) to single, statistically processed (the percentage of each reaction was revealed with respect to the entire number of responses and individual groups of subjects); the content of images and representations in the consciousness of students, reflecting associative (semantic) bonds in each group of subjects was analyzed; the associations (word-reactions) of students of non-legal fields of training and law department were compared. These methods made it possible to conduct a meaningful analysis of images of consciousness revealing the understanding of the lexical unit of law and characterizing the internal psychological component of legal consciousness.
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29 November 2021
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978-1-80296-116-4
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European Publisher
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117
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1st Edition
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Cultural development, technological development, socio-political transformations, globalization
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Yakovleva, T. A. (2021). Representation Of The Law Concept In The Language Consciousness Of Modern Students. In D. K. Bataev, S. A. Gapurov, A. D. Osmaev, V. K. Akaev, L. M. Idigova, M. R. Ovhadov, A. R. Salgiriev, & M. M. Betilmerzaeva (Eds.), Social and Cultural Transformations in The Context of Modern Globalism, vol 117. European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences (pp. 1685-1692). European Publisher. https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2021.11.222