Ethnocultural semantics of plant names

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of plant names in the cultural-semantic direction. As it became known in the course of the study, plant names are closely related to the historical formation, the past, the mentality of the population, preserving the ancient stratum of the linguistic composition. Therefore, this article comprehensively studied the ancient lexemes contained in plant names as a system constituting the conceptual basis of the language. Attention has been paid to the development of national consciousness in interaction with folk language, along with a comprehensive in-depth study of the scientific ontological content of plant names on a linguistic-conceptual basis. A theoretical analysis of how the worldview of an ethnos is vividly expressed through phytonymic words and contributes to the formation of national consciousness was carried out. Ethno-cultural units containing cultural and cognitive information are collected in the composition of plant names, their cultural semantics is revealed; representative linguocultural information of encyclopedic character is presented. Language and cultural codes reflected in the content of plant names are revealed, phytonyms that penetrate into Kazakh culture and convey the history of the past of our people are studied. The cultural-semantic and conceptual structure of plant names is revealed, cultural meanings are comprehensively analyzed.