Functioning of the concept «alcoholic beverages» in the naive worldview of the Russians according to the association experiment

The article deals with one of the methods of language representation with the help of verbal associative network - the method of association experiment. The experiment carried out by the author of the article is described. 100 Russian respondents took part in the experiment. The analysis of the materials obtained during the experiment is presented. The experiment is based on a word combination «alcoholic beverages». The purpose of the experiment is to describe a fragment of the naive worldview of the Russian linguistic personality.