The concept of төрел ('relative') in the Tuvan linguistic world picture
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https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2019.3.12Keywords:
concept; relative; kindred; төрел; language world picture; kinship terms; Tuva; Tuvans; Tuvan language; Tuvan cultureAbstract
The article presents a linguistic and cultural analysis of the interpretations of the Tuvan concept ‘төрел’ (‘relative’). We see this concept as an integral unit of thought which describes kinship: what people are considered closely related, how they should be addressed and how to communicate with them in under various conditions and in different periods of life, etc. Our research is based on the data from dictionaries and from 10 works of fiction. Overall, 27 collocations containing the word төрел ‘relative’ have been discovered.
The analysis of the concept allows us to outline the details of Tuvan family life which form the core of their social and cultural existence. Generalization of lexical unit, which objectify this concept, has helped to distinguish several areas of its nominative field relevant to proximity and distance within the kinship - near, distant and remote. The distribution of selected expressions by areas is accompanied by a list of terms identified.
The whole nominative field of the concept includes separate words, loose collocations, authors’ phrases, idioms, proverbs, etc. It reveals the peculiarities of the Tuvan linguistic world picture, as well as the complexity of their multifaceted system of kinship.
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Kuzhuget Sh. J., Suvandii N. D., Dambaa Sh. V. and Lamazhaa Ch. K. The concept of төрел ('relative') in the Tuvan linguistic world picture. The New Research of Tuva, 2019, no. 3 [online] Available at: https://nit.tuva.asia/nit/article/view/871 (access date: ...). DOI: 10.25178/nit.2019.3.12
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Schenne Yu. Kuzhuget, Tuvan State University
Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Theory and Methods of Language Education and Speech Therapy, Tuvan State University.
Postal address: 13 Pedagogicheskaya St., 667004 Kyzyl, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (923) 388-69-99.
Email: kuzhuget-sh@mail.ru
Nadezhda D. Suvandii, Tuvan State University
Candidate of Philology, Dean, Philological Faculty, Tuvan State University.
Postal address: 13 Pedagogicheskaya St., 667004 Kyzyl, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (923) 268-93-69.
E-mail: suvandiin@mail.ru
Shenne V. Dambаa, Tuvan State University
Graduate student, Department of Tuvan Philology and General Linguistics, Tuvan State University.
ostal address: 13 Pedagogicheskaya St., 667004 Kyzyl, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (923) 385-22-42.
Email: shenne2242@mail.ru
Chimiza K. Lamazhaa, Moscow University for the Humanities
Doctor of Philosophy, Deputy Director, Institute of Fundamental and Applied Studies, Moscow University for the Humanities.
Postal address: 5 Yunosti St., 111395 Moscow, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (499) 374-73-90.
E-mail: lamazhaa@tuva.asia
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