Linguocultural Features of Proverbs in Kazakh, English and Chinese Languages
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proverbs and sayings, linguocultural aspects, Kazakh, English, and Chinese languages.Özet
This article explores the linguocultural features of proverbs and sayings in three genetically unrelated languages: Kazakh, English, and Chinese. Proverbs and sayings reflect a nation’s worldview, spiritual values, historical experience, culture, and social norms. In this respect, they are not merely linguistic units, but complex linguocultural phenomena that represent the identity, mentality, and way of thinking of a particular ethnic group. Specifically, the article analyzes proverbs rooted in nomadic traditions in Kazakh culture, Anglo-Saxon pragmatism in English culture, and Confucian philosophy in Chinese culture using linguocultural and comparative analysis methods. This allows the identification of how each nation's worldview and cultural values are reflected in their proverbs. Additionally, the article focuses on specific themes across the three languages – such as family values, education, patience, and labor – and highlights culturally marked lexical units specific to each theme. The linguocultural features of the proverbs are compared based on a model developed from scholarly analysis. The concepts of “proverb” and “linguoculture” are clarified from a theoretical perspective. The scientific objective of the article is to identify, compare, and analyze the linguocultural characteristics of proverbs in Kazakh, English, and Chinese, and to determine their similarities and differences. The article concludes with suggestions for future research.
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