THE PERCEPTION OF LEXICAL UNITS OF THE SEMANTIC FIELD "PUBLIC CATERING" IN THE PRESENT-DAY RUSSIAN SPEECH
Any lexical unit serves as the means to transfer the knowledge about outside reality. The article below examines the perception of nine lexical units which are considered to belong to one common lexical field. The described language units are united into one group, in the basis of which there is the concept of «public catering». Undoubtedly, the current cultural and historical environment affects the listener’s word perception. The received experimental data testify that the relevance, frequency and semic structure of the examined lexical units are not identical. The results effort an opportunity to see how the lexical units are not equal. The given results gave an opportunity to see how the lexical units could be used and understood by the Russian language native speakers and listeners nowadays.