Abstract
The paper describes the culture-bound concept of ق د ر destiny identified through the association experiment. It suggests linguo-cognitive analysis of reactions obtained during the experiment with native Arabic speakers. The study demonstrates words, lexemes and expressions, which reflect the concept of destiny in the Arabic linguoculture. It also presents phrases and sentences obtained during questionnaire survey, which show the national specifics of this concept. The work provides classification of associations and analyzes the obtained results. All associations, including single ones, were considered in the experiment. The novelty of this work includes the description and identification of cognitive features, semantic pattern of key national elements of a macroconcept ق د ر destiny in associative consciousness of native Arabic speakers, which represents a component of the Arabic linguoculture.
Highlights
The destiny is the most real and objective concept and category of life directly linked to span of a person and the nation
The stimulus word masir-natijatun (19), huwa ma yaktubaha Allahu lana (17) an-nihayat (11), al-mavt (12), al-janat (7), qaḋa wa qadar (7), mal (6), al– insan (6), al-xatimatu (6), mustaqbal (3), huwa ma qadara laka min waqa’yi (1), as-Sudan (1), al-mawta insha Allah (1), al-Asad (Bashar al-Asad ar-rais asSuriya) (Al-Asad (Bashar al-Asad – president of Syria) (1), asmaru-al-masir (1), ma yantaha ilayha al-amri (1)
Destiny) (21), az-zawaj (18), annasibu fi-al-hayati (15), ha ḋḋ un (13), alha ḋḋ u fi ad-dunyayi (11), Al-adl (7), ma qismatu Allahu lana min ar-rizqi wa al-ma’ishati (4) al-waẓifatu (3), min muqaddirat al-mawla ‘aza wa jalla (3), min al-taqsim (2), huwa nasibu alfardi (2), katabtu wa lam afkaru fiha ba’da huma ucnayni, jannatun wa narun, ayuhuma taxtarat (I have written, but I don’t think that there are concepts of paradise and hell and that there will be a choice) (1)
Summary
The destiny is the most real and objective concept and category of life directly linked to span of a person and the nation. The everyday human life includes positive and negative connotations of this concept. According to Losev A.F., “The destiny is a rigid image of life”, “the harshest clamps pressing our life ” [1,148]. The destiny refers to the most ancient key concepts of all cultures, and despite social and linguistic development the human worldview always remains in the consciousness of a person, and the representative words of this concept exist in all linguocultures
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