Nature in the «mirror» of a metaphorical comparison of Russian and Kazakh writers
Journal Title: Scientific journal «International Journal of Philology» - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue 225
Abstract
Nature which is typical of the territory where a nation inhabits as well as climate and topography affect the national character, which is so-called stereotypical behavior. Linguocultural situation is determined by the climatic and geographical conditions of a particular area surrounding the human, animal and plant life affects the formation of a naive view of the world of an ethnicity. Stereotypes associated with the images of natural objects are interdependent elements of linguocultural system. Natural universals are ethnic universals; they are connected with the territory of the localization of a particular ethnic group. Analysis of natural universals is used as objects of comparison, allows us to set the importance of a particular reality in the economic life of the ethnic group and identify the cognitive strategies of naming, that is, to establish which properties are perceived and reflected by the people in the language connecting them with a certain natural universal. The article deals with the work of such authors as K. Paustovsky, M. Prishvin, D. Doszhanov, T. Ahtanov, A.Kekilbaev. Landscapes of ethnic territory are imprinted as an idea of "native land" in the minds of the people who inhabit it. The fact that Kazakh people lived in the steppe for a long time is reflected not only in the material and spiritual culture, but also reflected in the language, the mentality of the people. As for the territory of the localization of the Kazakh people the great steppe and the sands are common. As an agent of comparison such lexeme as the sea is used by Kazakh authors rarely, while in the Russian stories, this lexeme occurs quite often. Due to the fact that the Kazakh mountains have been natural borders and most reliable refuge from external enemies, their importance in the minds of the Kazakh people is proved by the fact that any rock or mountain range have had their names. That is why this agent of metaphorical comparison is used by the authors quite often. Also common feature of the works of Russian writers is the lexeme island, through which a metaphorical comparison of the autumn garden or fallen leaves floating on the river is created. Common to the works of Kazakh and Russian writers is the use as an agent of comparison lexeme ocean which has been seen in movies or known as having been described in books, and completed by the author's imagination. Also both Kazakh and Russian writers often use the lexeme river. In the stories of Russian authors a river is comparable to music, the sound of footsteps of many people, as well as person’s mood. This image is more valuable in the works of he Kazakh authors because life in a steppe or a desert depends on the presence of rivers there. Research shows that imaginative comparison through geographic realities often but not always has denotative character, in which the comparison device is generated by reality surrounding a person. To a greater extent, they reflect the inner world of a writer, system of their values, ethical and aesthetic ideas of an author.
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M Rumiantseva
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