Образы русских писателей в языковом сознании молодежи Ярославской области

The article describes the specifics of the perception of anthroponyms of the lexico-semantic group "Russian Writers" by the youth linguistic consciousness (the recipients are residents of the Yaroslavl region). The anthroponyms A. S. Pushkin, M. Y. Lermontov and I. S. Turgenev served as the material for the study. The study was conducted using the method of directed associative experiment, according to the results of which the associative fields of all the studied stimuli were compiled. It is shown that the semantic groups that were identified in the analysis of associative fields generally coincide in all three studied anthroponyms. These are such groups as "The meaning of the poet and his work", "Qualities attributed to the poet", "Perception of creativity by the reader", "Literary activity". The semantic groups "Appearance" and "Origin" became specific semantic groups for the anthroponym A. S. Pushkin, and for the anthroponym M. Y. Lermontov - "Appearance" and "Facts of biography". No specific semantic groups have been identified for the anthroponym I. S. Turgenev. The psycholinguistic meanings of anthroponyms are formulated after processing the experimental data obtained. It has been established that all anthroponyms are characterized by semes with both an approving and disapproving assessment, while the evaluative characteristics are diverse. Conclusions about the high mastery of anthroponyms by the linguistic consciousness of the youth of the Yaroslavl region are drawn, and the anthroponym A. S. Pushkin turned out to be the most mastered.