Academician A. Kaydar: language memory as a storage of ethnic history

Abstract

The issues of cognitive linguistics today form an interdisciplinary aspect of understanding the problems of language and human physiology. A person is an object of integral perception. He also creates a core of transformational projections around himself, identifying the system of scientific theoretical canons, their symbolic nature, and pragmatic discourse. Among modern conceptual approaches, human mnemonic activity is of particular linguistic interest. It means the dominance of semantic and contextual issues in storing, memorizing, and reproducing information. Memory, being a cognitive mechanism for storing vocabulary and logical information, has prompted scientists to update concepts such as linguistic memory, ethnic memory, national memory, folk memory, historical memory, etc. This article aims to systematize the scientific ideas of the famous Kazakh academician A. Kaidar and define the processes of processing and storing knowledge among ethno-mental and culturally marked meanings. Linguistic units in the works of A. Kaidar appears both from the position of diachronic-historical judgments and in the format of synchronic-modern interpretations. The role of "folk and public memory" ("eldin zhady, kogam zhadysy") in linguistic cumulation as a source of historical information is highlighted. The scientist's distinctive feature is the isolated perception and analysis of language material against the background of the problems of ethnogenesis, genesis, and the "world of language". Therefore, the study of "inter-language contacts" through the genesis predetermined the author's approach to issues of linguistic assimilation and its results. The linguist described homogeneous similarities and heterogeneous differences in languages by comparing the Arabic-Persian, Mongolian, and Russian linguistic elements in the Kazakh language. Thus, with the help of idio-ethnic elements, the transition of linguistics to inter-scientific interpretations is outlined. This is evidenced by the author’s active use of such concepts as “tanym”/knowledge, “kozkaras”/view, “kor”/fund, “sana”/consciousness, “dünietanu”/worldview, “zhady”/memory, “zerde”/mind.

Keywords: cognitive linguistics, memory, chronotopy, historical knowledge, historical chronicle.