АСҚАР АЛТАЙ ПРОЗАСЫНДАҒЫ ИНТЕРМӘТІН ЖӘНЕ ҰЛТТЫҚ СЕМИОСФЕРА

Abstract

A literary text is not only the result of an author’s cognitive activity, but also a manifestation of a multilayered semiotic system shaped by the historical memory, linguistic experience, cultural traditions, and worldview models of a particular ethnos. Therefore, in modern philology, the concept of intertext serves as an important theoretical category for identifying the internal structure of a literary work, its semantic layers, and its text-forming mechanisms. Intertextual relations are realized through the interaction of a text with other texts on semantic, structural, and cultural levels. In other words, although each literary work is perceived as an autonomous semiotic whole, its meaning is revealed through its connection with preceding texts, cultural codes, and precedent structures.

From this theoretical perspective, Askar Altay’s works Tuazhat and Casino represent a literary system that clearly demonstrates the interaction between intertextual relations and the national semiosphere in contemporary Kazakh prose. On the one hand, these works actively incorporate mythological models, folkloric reminiscences, proverbs, religious formulas, and elements of historical and cultural memory. On the other hand, they integrate precedent names from the global literary canon, European toponyms, international linguistic units, urban spatial markers, and signs of technogenic civilization. As a result, the convergence of diverse cultural codes within the text becomes the primary organizing mechanism of artistic semantics, reflecting both national and global semiotic layers and their dynamic interaction.