Concept FREEDOM/INDEPENDENCE in Oirat-Kalmyk language culture

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National consciousness is formed under the infl of certain social, historical, geographical conditions. Any national language focuses on some defi facts of reality that are important for the survival and prosperity of the linguistic society. Concepts as ”knowledge quanta“ are a concentrated expression of cultural and historical experience of a society or an individual. Nowadays, many researches have been published on the concepts of the Kalmyk language culture, such as: NOMAD, YOSTA ZALU (eng. REAL MAN), WOMAN, CLAN, etc. This article is the fi to study the concept of FREEDOM/INDEPENDENCE in the Oirat-Kalmyk language culture. The aim of the article is to reveal the ways of objectifiof the studied concept. In the course of the research, it was revealed that this concept is a construct rooted in the consciousness of the nomadic culture carriers, formed due to the specifi socio-economic relations. The analysis of the works of a number of historians and historical literature has shown that the concept was formed under particular historical and economic conditions. The semantic-conceptual analysis of the examples selected from lexicographic, folklore and literary sources has shown that the concept is represented by thought pictures, lexemes with antonymic seme. The concept acquires the direct nomination in the modern Kalmyk literature and it was revealed by the method of contextual, semantic and stylistic analysis. In accordance with the well-known theoretical position about the layered structure of the concept, several levels of the studied concept were identifi As a result, it was concluded that the concept of FREEDOM/INDEPENDENCE in the Oirat-Kalmyk language culture is indivisible. The value aspect of this concept is expressed in the fact that it is the key concept in the folk epic Dzhangar and is reflected in many proverbs and sayings. The lexeme ”suldhvr” as a representative of the concept appears in the modern Kalmyk literature. This lexeme actualises the concept of FREEDOM.

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Olga K. Bavaeva

Moscow University named after A.S. Griboyedov

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Email: olgabov97@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5508-7201
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Candidate of Philological Sciences, associate professor, Department of Translation and Intercultural Communication

Moscow, Russian Federation

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