Thread: National specificity of abstract concepts in English

Hello!

My name is Alex, I'm from Russia and I write my degree work. I need to make an associative experiment. The theme is “National specificity of abstract concepts in English”.

The task of the experiment is to show a field of associations of the given concept in current English language. There are some questions below. Answer several questions, which are written below, please. Or your may send privat message to me.

The questions:

1. Please, write your gender, age, occupation and country.
2. Please, give your first 5-7 associations to the word BELIEF
3. Please, give about 5-7 adjectives, connected with the word BELIEF
4. Please, give about 5-7 verbs, connected with the word BELIEF
5. Give a metaphor, comparison or phraseological units (idioms) connected with the word BELIEF
6. What is BELIEF actually?

I would be very glad, if you take part in the experiment!

1. Please, write your gender, age, occupation and country.
male, old, unemployed, USA

2. Please, give your first 5-7 associations to the word BELIEF
faith
God
religion
knowledge
understanding
relation

3. Please, give about 5-7 adjectives, connected with the word BELIEF
faithful
Godly
religious
knowledeable
understanding
relating

4. Please, give about 5-7 verbs, connected with the word BELIEF
to know
to feel
to understand
to believe
to confide with

5. Give a metaphor, comparison or phraseological units (idioms) connected with the word BELIEF

?

6. What is BELIEF actually?
faith in something or someone (usually god)


I guess I am bored.
alex_lasto, are you learning English?
This does not seem to be the right forum for your question.

1. male, 18, NZ, student
2. god, faith, worship, understand, explanation, truth
3. godly, understanding, faithful, religious, descriminating
4. worship, believe, understand, descriminate, say
5. And God said unto John, come forth and ye shall recieve eternal life, but John came fifth and won a toaster (sorry can't think of anything else)
6. Belief is the mental acceptance of and conviction in the truth, actuality, or validity of something

Originally Posted by basurero

1. male, 18, NZ, student

Basurero, I think you're the New Zealand-ese version of me.

Wow, we even have the same shoes!

Originally Posted by basurero

5. And God said unto John, come forth and ye shall recieve eternal life, but John came fifth and won a toaster

Quality.

Originally Posted by BlackMage

Originally Posted by basurero

1. male, 18, NZ, student

Basurero, I think you're the New Zealand-ese version of me.

Originally Posted by kwatts59

I guess I am bored.
alex_lasto, are you learning English?
This does not seem to be the right forum for your question.

Thank you for answering the questions!
Actually I'm learning German, but English too.

What forum should be right then?