ABOUT LINGUOCULTURAL SEMANTICS OF THE COSMONYUM "ASPAN" IN THE KAZAKH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article shows the lexical-semantic features, meaning-thematic groups of the cosmonym "Sky" in the Kazakh and English languages. In this regard, the purpose of the study is based on the cognitive aspect of the cosmonym "Sky" in the Kazakh and English languages. It aims to present the basis of astronomical knowledge of the nations by modernizing the meaning of the names currently in use through the method of semantic, linguistic, cultural, and partly etymological analysis.

"Aspan/Sky" is the world of astronomical names common to mankind, but each nation sees and understands this common world in its own way, creating a linguistic image of its national world. Understanding the peculiarities of each nation through its language is an important issue in modern language communication. Therefore, the research objectives: first describes the significant semantic features of the cosmonym "Aspan" in the Kazakh language. Secondly, it sets out to describe the meaningful semantic features of the concept of "sky" in the English language and compare the linguistic and cultural features of the cosmonym "sky" in unrelated languages.

The leading idea of the research is to determine the reason why the names included in the "Aspan" system are considered to be a witness of the lifestyle, life, and history of the representatives of Kazakh and English culture. The introductory part establishes the continuity of language and culture according to anthropocentric research, based on the analysis of studies about the linguistic layers of deep content that collected the manifestations of national culture in each period.

The main results were obtained by analyzing specific linguistic and cultural units related to the cosmonym "Sky" in unrelated Kazakh and English languages, which appeared in ancient times. The results of the search for the semantic features of the cosmonym "Sky" in the Kazakh and English languages make a significant theoretical and practical contribution to the development of the youngest field of onomastics - cosmonomics - in an anthropocentric direction. It allows for new insights into the fields of semasiology, linguistics, and cultural studies. In this respect, the value level of the research is determined. Research results in ethnolinguistics, linguistic and cultural studies, onomastics, etc., can be used as additional data in research, lectures, practical lessons, the compilation of dictionaries, and texts.