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Kazakh Cultural Models of Family and Home in Contrast

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The aim of the paper is a presentation and discussion of a cluster of concepts of family and home in a cross-linguistic perspective, with a particular focus on their place and position in Kazakh cultural conceptualizations. The relevant Kazakh forms include the words otbasy, januıa, áýlet, shańyraq, úı. which are discussed with reference to British English. The first part of the paper presents the kinship relations in nuclear and extended family types in the analysed languages along with a discussion of the major family roles in Kazakh. The second part depicts the particular sets of relevant cultural dimensions (Hofstede in Culture’s consequences: international differences in work-related values. Sage, Beverly Hills, 1980), which describe some of the analyzed properties. The role of particular cultures and the cultural referential character of these categories will be discussed in the concluding part.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Compare Abukhanova & Utegaliyeva (2013, 2014), Utegaliyeva (2014) for a thorough discussion of the concept of maternity in Kazakh, contrasted with English.

  2. 2.

    Lakoff’s discussion is based on American English.

  3. 3.

    Ethnodemographic situation in Kazakhstan. Archived 2003-04-16 at the Wayback Machine on ide.go.jp.

  4. 4.

    Christopher Robbins In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared. London: 2007.

  5. 5.

    http://www.akorda.kz/ru/legal_acts/decrees/o-vnesenii-izmeneniya-v-ukaz-prezidenta-.

  6. 6.

    Some of the examples used in these sections are extracted from Kazakh Language Corpus (KLC) http://kazcorpus.kz/klcweb/en/search/. The KLC project is managed by Natural Language and Information Processing group of the Computer Science Lab of the Nazarbayev University Research and Innovation System. (formerly Astana, now Nursultan). The source of some other examples quoted in the present paper is an extensive study of Kazakh concept of collectivity by Aasland (2012). The examples are quoted both in the Cyrillic and Latin scripts. Some proverbs are quoted from Tleuberdi (2002).

  7. 7.

    Demographic situation in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2006, Agency on Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Internet Archive v. 11 October 2007).

  8. 8.

    See Australia, Project SafeCom, Western. “Mongolian Gers or Yurts: heritage of nomadic peoples”. www.safecom.org.au; “ger (dwelling house) - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus”. www.memidex.com.

  9. 9.

    As reported in Sarbassova (2015, p. 229) a set of Kazakh words referring to horses exceeds 600 forms, 358 of which define horse colour alone.

  10. 10.

    https://www.commisceo-global.com/resources/country-guides/kazakhstan-guide.

  11. 11.

    See https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/monarchy-in-the-uk-the-royal-family-s-uncertain-future-1.3500174: “Haigh estimates that the monarchy generates about £1.8 billion for the British economy each year, far outstripping the £300–350 million it costs the state.[…] the monarchy enjoys solid popular support”.

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Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B., Utegaliyeva, B.B. (2020). Kazakh Cultural Models of Family and Home in Contrast. In: Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B. (eds) Cultural Conceptualizations in Language and Communication. Second Language Learning and Teaching. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42734-4_6

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