This article reviews a number of studies pertaining to associative linguography, including those conducted with the use of associative dictionaries. It also examines the current state of interdisciplinary applied research focusing on the associative-verbal network, in which a prominent area of scholarly interest is the comparison of associative norms with affective ones. Drawing on data from multiple languages, the extrapolation of the affective and semantic characteristics of words that are associatively related is examined. Significant advances in our understanding of the associative network properties have been achieved by foreign scholars through the development of affective and semantic norm databases. For the Russian language, databases of affective parameters (VAD) and abstractness/concreteness ratings have recently been compiled. Based on the systematized foreign and national approaches to the creation of associative dictionaries, the structure of a thesaurus-type dictionary entry for the New Associative Dictionary with markup according to the affective and semantic parameters is described.