THE UNIQUE FEATURES OF THE CONCEPT «WOMAN" IN THE KYRGYZ CULTURE

Abstract

The work was done in the context of new fields of linguistics, such as cognitive linguistics, ethnolinguistics and linguocultural studies. On the base of the concept «woman» an in-depth analytical study was made. Such study is unique and first in its kind which is based on the conceptual, figurative features of the concept «woman» in Kyrgyz linguistics. The concept «woman»  has not been studied at the conceptual level in  Kyrgyz linguistics and the most of the conceptual researches have been conducted in Russian and English. Therefore, the need to research the unique features of the concept «woman» in the Kyrgyz language demonstrates the relevance of this paper.

Cognitive research is aimed at recognizing the universal experience formed in the cultural memory of the people and provides a deeper understanding of the national mentality and its values. This paper reviews the literature, justifies the need for research, describes the state of cognitive linguistics in the modern anthropocentric paradigm of language, the current state of conceptual research in cognitive linguistics, the conceptual field of concept and various ways of conceptual analysis, the scientific works of foreign, Russian and domestic scientists were assessed. And we  define the characteristics of women as national values through various psychological, associative surveys conducted by the concept «woman» in this work.