LEXICO-PHRASEOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE INTELLECTUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A PERSON IN THE BASHKIR LANGUAGE: LINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE ANALYSIS

Abstract

The article presents a linguocognitive analysis of lexical and phraseological means representing human intellectual characteristics in the Bashkir language. The relevance of the research is determined by the need for further development of the linguocognitive approach to the study of the Bashkir language, as well as the need to identify the ethno-cultural specificity of the Bashkir linguistic worldview in the sphere of intellectual characteristics. The paper examines the lexicographic representation of key lexemes, antonymic relations in the intellectual sphere, phraseological units and the proverbial fund objectifying the concepts of «mind» and «stupidity». Special attention is paid to metaphorical modeling of intelligence: spatial, objective, and light models are identified, as well as somatic and zoomorphic codes. Based on phraseological and paremiological material, the inseparable connection of intellectual characteristics with moral and ethical categories is revealed, which constitutes the ethno-cultural specificity of the Bashkir linguistic worldview. The connection between the linguistic conceptualization of intelligence and the traditional economic and cultural type of the Bashkir ethnos (nomadic cattle breeding), reflected in zoomorphic metaphor, is established.