THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE LINGUOCULTUROLOGICAL STUDY OF KUI-ANYZ TEXTS: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, LINGUOCULTURAL UNIT, CONCEPT, SYMBOL, AND CULTURAL CODE

Abstract

This article examines kui-anyz texts as independent folklore-linguocultural texts in which the cultural memory, value system, and national worldview of the Kazakh people are verbalized. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that kui-anyz has mainly been considered in musical-historical and folklore-genre contexts, while its linguistic organization through linguocultural units, concepts, symbols, and cultural codes remains insufficiently systematized. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the theoretical foundations of the linguoculturological analysis of kui-anyz and to identify the mechanisms through which the Kazakh worldview is represented in its verbal structure. The material consists of published kui-anyz texts analyzed by linguoculturological, semantic, conceptual, and folklore-textological methods. The study shows that units such as zher, el, ata-baba, amanat, tagdyr, dombra, kui, tort tulik, zhylky, nar, kus, and an form semantic fields of land, kinship, memory, fate, moral duty, spiritual continuity, nomadic life, and the relationship between human beings and nature. The scientific novelty lies in interpreting kui-anyz as an independent linguocultural object where linguistic unit, image, concept, symbol, and cultural code function as an integrated system of meaning formation. The article identifies spatial-land, genealogical, ethical-axiological, mythopoetic, musical-semiotic, and zoocultural codes that incorporate individual events into collective cultural memory.