THE CONCEPT OF “CHECHNYA” IN THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE PICTURE OF THE WORLD

Abstract

The article analyzes a concept of “Chechnya” through understanding and ways of its representation in the naive picture of the Chechen world. Concepts usually materialize in the most significant words-codes of national culture, since it is concepts that are the main components of a certain culture. They can be a subject of emotions, sympathy, in some cases, and the impetus for disagreements, because they represent the main core, the basis of culture in the cognitive (thinking) world of a person. The emergence of the concept of “Chechnya” has several versions. In Chechnya, such representatives of the concept under consideration are especially valuable, as dohnalla “dignity”, yahya “honor”, yuh “face”, kionahalla “exemplary”, mayralla “courage”, nohchiin mott “Chechen language”, daimohk “fatherland”, dune “world”. They come together according to the principle of family similarity. These lexemes form the main core of the concepts of the Chechen language picture of the world. They contain a life-affirming, positive and mobilizing meaning. These concepts are included in the basic part of the Chechen linguoculture. They specify the character of Chechens, coincide with their religious, ethnic and national values. This concept is actively used in various genres, folklore, fiction and journalistic literature. In Chechen folklore, proverbs and sayings, folk songs, fairy tales, the course of the verbalization movement of the concept in question is overlooked, which reflects the endless love for the fatherland, for Chechnya.