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NATIONAL FEATURES OF THE CONCEPT В‘WOMANВ’ IN THE I. YESENBERLINВ’S ROMAN В‘THE CHARMED SWORDВ’В’

M. Yerkhodzhayeva

Abstract

In the last decades linguocultural sciences, cognitive linguistics (concept), anthropocentric paradigm, such young branches of linguistics has led to the identification of ethnos and national culture by language. The role and place of the "woman-mother" in the fate of modern Kazakh language, as well as in the past, is very important. However, in the national outlook of the Kazakh people, the image of a woman in the Kazakh culture was not fully resolved. In this connection, it is important to prove that the concept of a woman's identity through the national knowledge fund is related to the identity of the nation, its attitude to the world and its spiritual and cultural values, its relationship with the social activities of the society and the family. In accordance with its vital character, determining the dynamics of development of the concept of "Kazakh woman" in the modern Kazakh society and the process of updating determine the relevance of the article. An outstanding historian of 20th century, writer I. Yesenberlin wrote about the history of the formation of the “Kazakh Khanate” in his trilogy "Nomads", a true and figurative story about the battlefields, khans, heroes, their way of life and culture. The role of Trilogy in the history of Kazakh literature and history in general is high. This article considers the dynamically developing cognitive linguistics concept of modern linguistics and it provides interpretation of the concept of "woman", including the concept of the "Kazakh woman". In order to make the theme effective, the fragments of the concept of "woman" in the roman "The Charmed Sword" are given and the national specifics of the Kazakh people are studied by studying the facts that decribe the concept of "Kazakh woman".

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