THE EVOLUTION OF THE STRUCTURE, CONTENT AND GRAPHICS OF AKHMET BAITURSYNULA'S PUBLICATIONS "OKU KURALY"

Abstract

The article compares twenty-three editions of books called "Oku Kuraly" by Akhmet Baitursynula, analyzes their structural, meaningful and graphic development, and determines the evolution of these publications. Until now, Kazakh linguistics has not conducted a comparative analysis of the publications of "Oku Kuraly", a complete bibliography has not been compiled, and textual features have not been considered. Even the complete editions of the work were not published in Cyrillic. Therefore, textbook publications have become the object of special research. The analysis was divided into three stages: at the first stage, twenty-three editions of "Oku Kuraly" were divided into four groups, and their structural and documentary features are considered; at the second stage, the substantive features of the publications of "Oku Kuraly" are analyzed; at the third stage, a comparative study of the graphic features of publications is conducted. As a result, changes in the structure and system, additions and corrections in the content, as well as the graphical evolution of the work "Oku Kuraly" were identified. In addition, on the basis of archival research, unknown versions of the Oku Kuraly editions have been identified, which modern linguists do not know about, as well as evidence of errors indicated by some researchers in previous editions. The study was conducted on the basis of the original publications of Oku Kuraly. Comparative historical, textual, and descriptive methods in an integrative combination were used at all stages of the study. In conclusion, the reasons for the changes and development of the Oku Kuraly publications and their results were assessed, as well as the final conclusions were drawn.