Associative Dictionaries as an Ethnic Mental Phenomenon: Basic Values in the Core of Ethnic Group Language Consciousness

Introduction. Associative research is widely practiced in the field of sciences related to linguistics as an interdisciplinary approach study relationship language with consciousness, psyche, and human culture; corpus associative data we have created Kazakh replenishes lexicography context broad intercultural comparisons. 
 Materials methods. The dictionaries norms (Dmitryuk, 1978; Dmitryuk, Moldalieva et al., 2014), prepared on basis free experiments (SAE) 1000 students, contain unique information about mentality ethnocultural characteristics ethnic group Soviet modern period.
 FAE a well-known method employing experiment data, reliable way access person’s linguistic consciousness; statistical processing body provided for analytical comparison hierarchical sequence basic values consciousness core – its central peripheral zones post-Soviet periods.
 Results. Due diachronic interethnic comparative analysis: such religion beliefs, freedom, sovereignty, state symbols been subjected significant changes; cultural kernel preferences remained traditionally unchanged, constituting specific essence national mentality: attitude motherland, mother, elders, men, gender age peculiarities hierarchy family relations.
 Conclusions. intralingua dictionaries’ contents revealed very stable unchanging value priorities, indicating fairly strong vitality degree society.
 work contributes research, provides development promising Psycholinguistics Kazakhstan.