Abstract
This article defines universal and national directions of oppositional cognition. If we consider that life itself consists of opposites, it is understandable why researchers search for the picture of the universe in oppositions. In the article we discuss universal notion that is common to the whole humanity as well as each nation’s own picture of the world appropriate to their culture and cognition. For the first time we prove that linguistic that linguistic units with opposite meanings is a tool that helps to convey common and national picture of the universe on the basis of materials in Kazakh language. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s2p448
Highlights
Picture of the world in human’s cognition is the complex of his personal life experience and contrasting features in his notion
We selected 426 Kazakh proverbs and sayings drawn from the collections paremias (Akkozin 1990), and 290 sentences with antonymous oppositions extracted from modern fiction
In conclusion we have proved that because of usual antonymous oppositions, on which paremias are based, versatile for different languages, they reflect a universal picture of the world
Summary
Picture of the world in human’s cognition is the complex of his personal life experience and contrasting features in his notion. According to the results of cultural and linguistic researches we can assume that the original forms of thinking are binary structures that are expressed in language in form of semantic oppositions They reflect substantial for human contrasting sides of events from national and social world around him. Researchers involved in the reconstruction of picture of the world of various ethnos use “set of basic semantic opposition that have practically cross functional nature for people of the world” (Anikina 1988). This way of description of picture of the world was not chosen accidentally. We selected 426 Kazakh proverbs and sayings drawn from the collections paremias (Akkozin 1990), and 290 sentences with antonymous oppositions extracted from modern fiction
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