Russian ‘We’: From Sign to Image

The study is aimed at the intricate communicative nature of the Russian pronoun «russ. my» (eng. we). The author applies complex approach combining linguistic introspection and psycholinguistic experiment (association experiment) and reveals the image of pronoun «russ. my» (eng. we) evoked in the minds of native speakers when they use the pronoun is isolation and in self-created contexts. The most and least frequent experiment responses as well as contexts created are compared and evaluated.