LEXICOGRAPHIZATION OF ETHNO-CULTURAL UNITS OF THE NATIONAL CORPUS

Abstract

The article addresses the issue of lexicographing ethnocultural units in accordance with the national corpus of the Kazakh language. It focuses on the ethnocultural values – worldview-related, spiritual-material, and sociocultural – preserved in the language and shaped by the historical and social development of the Kazakh people, their way of life, traditions, and interaction with their natural surroundings. This research is relevant within the framework of the modern anthropocentric paradigm, which also seeks to reveal the functional significance of the native language. The study aims to systematize ethnocultural units in the Kazakh language and substantiate their representation in the national corpus from a scientific and methodological perspective.

The research employs descriptive, comparative-historical, structural-semantic, and corpus-linguistic methods. The main focus and challenge of the study lie in systematizing ethnocultural units within the structure of the national linguistic corpus, identifying their semantic characteristics, and exploring ways to preserve and utilize these units in digital format.

The scientific and practical significance of the research is that the accumulation of ethnocultural units in the national corpus of the Kazakh language and the elucidation of their semantic structure contribute to expanding the body of linguistic knowledge. In this regard, the cultural and spiritual attributes of traditional Kazakh items such as kebezhe (a wooden chest), qazan (a large cauldron), and torsyq (a leather flask) can be understood through ethnocultural units. The study’s findings and conclusions involve the collection and semantic analysis of ethnocultural units, as well as their preparation for integration into the corpus database. Furthermore, these units have been incorporated into the theoretical framework of an ethnocultural subcorpus.

The theoretical and practical significance of the research lies in its contribution to ethnolinguistic and linguocultural studies within Kazakh linguistics, based on the national corpus of the Kazakh language. The findings enhance the cognitive potential of linguistic units and emphasize the role of language in reflecting national culture and identity. This issue is particularly important for the development of the national corpus of the Kazakh language as a comprehensive cognitive information resource and an advanced linguistic technology aligned with contemporary paradigms.