This article is based on the principle of determining the associative field of the word "friend" from the linguistic point of view of the specifics of verbal associations on the example of the associative field "friend". The associative field of Uzbek words and their points of connection with the stimulus word were considered in the work. Several manifestations of the associative field are abalyzed in connection with various factors: general and  personal according to the character of the language owners; such as permanent (traditional) and temporary in terms of actuality. It was observed that the associations with the stimulus word appear grammatically in the same form, sometimes in different forms, and the properties of associations belonging to different levels in the same field were studied.

associative field, Uzbek language, actuality, language owners, connection, linguistic consciousness, thinking, psyche, linguistics, pragmalymphistics, sociolinguistics

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