Linguistic explication of rational and irrational knowledge types in the content of toponyms (on the material of the linguocultural dictionary)

The processes of objectification of rational and irrational types of knowledge in the cultural semantics of toponyms as a product of the mental activity of the subject (individual and ethnolinguistic collective) are considered. The analysis is carried out on the material of toponyms that involve col...

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Main Authors: Rysbergen Kyzdarkhan, Uali Nurgeldy, Fazylzhanova Anar, Kuderinova Kuralay
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Published: De Gruyter 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2024-0031
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Uali Nurgeldy
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Kuderinova Kuralay
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description The processes of objectification of rational and irrational types of knowledge in the cultural semantics of toponyms as a product of the mental activity of the subject (individual and ethnolinguistic collective) are considered. The analysis is carried out on the material of toponyms that involve colour values, numerals and phytonyms, mythonyms, etc. The rational type of knowledge contains rich empirical information with diverse cultural semantics. The irrational type of knowledge represents mythological, esoteric, animistic, religious ideas, superstitions, customs, and various folk beliefs with profound ethnosemantics. In rational knowledge, various aspects of the economic and practical life of nomads in the development of the surrounding reality are detailed. The irrational type of knowledge concentrates on value orientations, stereotypes and prejudices, and moral and ethical norms of the nomadic Kazakh ethnic community in the past, represented in the cultural semantics of the language matrix of folk geographical names. For the first time, the ethnoecological, ethnobotanical knowledge of the Kazakh people is presented in the language matrix of toponyms, in which the emphasis is shifted not to lexical features, but to the cultural aspect, to cultural semantics.
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spelling doaj-art-c1994be797524d73a7f207fbfc8ba64c2025-01-02T06:03:38ZengDe GruyterOpen Linguistics2300-99692024-12-0110141410.1515/opli-2024-0031Linguistic explication of rational and irrational knowledge types in the content of toponyms (on the material of the linguocultural dictionary)Rysbergen Kyzdarkhan0Uali Nurgeldy1Fazylzhanova Anar2Kuderinova Kuralay3Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Republic of KazakhstanDepartment of Anthropology and Ethnology, Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Republic of KazakhstanDepartment of Anthropology and Ethnology, Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Republic of KazakhstanDepartment of Anthropology and Ethnology, Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Republic of KazakhstanThe processes of objectification of rational and irrational types of knowledge in the cultural semantics of toponyms as a product of the mental activity of the subject (individual and ethnolinguistic collective) are considered. The analysis is carried out on the material of toponyms that involve colour values, numerals and phytonyms, mythonyms, etc. The rational type of knowledge contains rich empirical information with diverse cultural semantics. The irrational type of knowledge represents mythological, esoteric, animistic, religious ideas, superstitions, customs, and various folk beliefs with profound ethnosemantics. In rational knowledge, various aspects of the economic and practical life of nomads in the development of the surrounding reality are detailed. The irrational type of knowledge concentrates on value orientations, stereotypes and prejudices, and moral and ethical norms of the nomadic Kazakh ethnic community in the past, represented in the cultural semantics of the language matrix of folk geographical names. For the first time, the ethnoecological, ethnobotanical knowledge of the Kazakh people is presented in the language matrix of toponyms, in which the emphasis is shifted not to lexical features, but to the cultural aspect, to cultural semantics.https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2024-0031toponymcolour designationsrational knowledgeirrational knowledgelanguage matrixcultural semantics
spellingShingle Rysbergen Kyzdarkhan
Uali Nurgeldy
Fazylzhanova Anar
Kuderinova Kuralay
Linguistic explication of rational and irrational knowledge types in the content of toponyms (on the material of the linguocultural dictionary)
Open Linguistics
toponym
colour designations
rational knowledge
irrational knowledge
language matrix
cultural semantics
title Linguistic explication of rational and irrational knowledge types in the content of toponyms (on the material of the linguocultural dictionary)
title_full Linguistic explication of rational and irrational knowledge types in the content of toponyms (on the material of the linguocultural dictionary)
title_fullStr Linguistic explication of rational and irrational knowledge types in the content of toponyms (on the material of the linguocultural dictionary)
title_full_unstemmed Linguistic explication of rational and irrational knowledge types in the content of toponyms (on the material of the linguocultural dictionary)
title_short Linguistic explication of rational and irrational knowledge types in the content of toponyms (on the material of the linguocultural dictionary)
title_sort linguistic explication of rational and irrational knowledge types in the content of toponyms on the material of the linguocultural dictionary
topic toponym
colour designations
rational knowledge
irrational knowledge
language matrix
cultural semantics
url https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2024-0031
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