Peculiarities of toponymic reflexes of Kazakhstan

Abstract

Toponyms are considered as the certain ethnocultural text bearing relevant information on the historical past of nations, on the borders of their resettlement, on the cultural, trade and geographical centers, etc. Thus, the problem of forming a particular -toponymic -worldview is an urgent task of modern linguistics due to its ethnocultural significance and integrative status as toponymic mapping of the world around represents one of the backbone methods of verbalizing the reality. It reflects the correlation between historical and social, language and ethnocultural aspects of the development of the people. The name serves not only as means of naming objects, but also contains information about the historical and cultural development of a society in which various social processes proceed. The research work is directed at observing the place names, realizing the process of interpretation of these names from the point of metalinguistic consciousness and determining the results. It is obvious that toponymic names are met when we are on the way or make a trip to a neighboring town, village, mountain, rivers, and lakes. Every traveler tries to define the meaning of the names they faced. The reason for that may be just curiosity or subject tries to define the properties of a geographical object, sometimes to learn the history of the object. The article aims to describe the language process that happens between the perception of the toponyms considered a geographical object by an ordinary native speaker and their interpretation and reflection. Key words: reflection, linguistic consciousness, toponymic reflection, ordinary consciousness, ordinary metalinguistic consciousness IntroductionAs science is developing year by year, there are some changes in linguistics. New views, new information, new research methods in linguistics, and also the integration of language with other sciences and sub-fields in different ways caused new turn and new search in science. One of its results is that native speaker focuses attention on his language, behavior, interpretation ability. It is an approach that has become an object of the research over the last thirty years. In this sense the reflection of the relations of language and thinking, language and consciousness can be observed from the language behavior of a person or ability to express his opinion. It is a representation of researching a language from the anthropocentric viewpoint. Describing the initial element in learning the environment, perceiving, conceptualizing it, adding his opinion, giving his evaluation is a sign of realization of reflection in ordinary metalinguistic consciousness. Reflex is a term peculiar in general to science. It became a research object in natural sciences (biology, neurology, physiology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc.) as well as in humanitarian sciences (philosophy, linguistics, sociology, etc.) in psychology that has the features peculiar to both sciences.

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“…Further, not many studies in the recent years deeply exploring the political economy of toponymic practices to understand the economic factors that influence place naming. Therefore, there is a lack of research on toponymic practices in specific regions in Asian territories (Boribayeva et al, 2018). Investigating the peculiarities of toponymic reflexes in different cultural and linguistic contexts would contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between place names and identity.…”