Ethno-cultural Specificity Research Articles

THE RESEARCH POTENTIAL OF ASSOCIATIVE LEXICOGRAPHY: PROSPECTS OF DIACHRONIC RESEARCH IN KAZAKHSTAN

The article describes the history of the formation of world associative lexicography, examines the typology and electronic databases of various associative dictionaries, their meaning and purpose in the context of psycholinguistic studies of the content and ethnocultural specificity of the linguistic consciousness of ethnic groups; gives an interpretation of the terminological apparatus used in the study of cognitive and mental processes of speech activity using associative techniques. Using the example of comparing the contents of two Kazakh associative dictionaries – the Soviet (KRAD-78) and the post-reform period (KAD-2014) – the dynamics of changes in the content of the nuclear zones of linguistic consciousness of two generations of students, participants in mass associative experiments, is demonstrated, which is convincing evidence of the serious research potential of associative lexicography and predicts the prospects of this kind of diachronic associative research. Based on the predicted scientific and socio-cultural significance of diachronic comparative associative studies, the article proposes to create another associative dictionary, expanding the list of stimulus words from 120 to 1000 in order to obtain an associative thesaurus of the Kazakh language, which will reflect a certain transformation of the linguistic consciousness of the ethnic group, and elements of stability of its central nuclear zones.

Информативные возможности аудиовизуальных источников при изучении истории и культуры татарского народа

Cinema is the most valuable source in the study of socio-politicalsocio-cultural processes. This explains the popularity of using film documents in the research activities of scholars, including historians. The article provides a brief overview of the content of films made by Kazan filmmakers with an emphasis on films dedicated to the anniversaries of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The author identifies the main ideas promoted by the creators of the film and shows how they changed over time. The propaganda and agitation task, which is present in all films, is emphasized; in the conditions of a national region it was always accompanied by a demonstration of the historical and ethnocultural specifics of the region. Establishing the research activity on the principles of historicism, objectivity, complexity, as well as using the hermeneutic method when interpreting audiovisual sources, it was concluded that newsreel materials can serve as informative source material on the cultural, economic and political life of the republic in the Soviet times.

Етноніми в поемі івана котляревського енеїда

The semantics and functioning of ethnonyms in the poem Aeneid by Ivan Kotlyarevsky are covered in the article. It has been established that the text of the poem contains 44 ethnonym names referring to two time-spaces – the ancient (15 ethnonyms) and the early modern time of writing the Aeneid (29 ethnonyms). Ethnonyms are a reflection of inter-ethnic contacts, represent the linguistic picture of the world at the end of the turn of the 19th century. The text contains neutral and expressive ethnonyms, as well as ethnophaulisms. The ethnonyms of the Aeneid implicate the ethno-cultural specificity of peoples and at the same time are the historical and cultural realities of their time. The text contains the names of household items of ethnonymic origin. Literary ethnonyms record the connotative stereotyped images of peoples, in particular, the nearest neighbours of the Ukrainians. Against the background of other peoples, the self-identification of one's own people can be clearly traced, which the author designates with auto-ethnonyms – Cossacks, Our people, Baptized people. Literary ethnonyms reveal the linguistic identity of the author of the Aeneid as an educated Ukrainian who identified himself with the Cossack people.

The local and ethnic specifics of Yunnan in the work of modern Chinese artists: an "inside" and "outside" view

The article is devoted to the reflection of local and ethnic specifics (mainly Yunnan Province and the Tibetan borderland) in the works of Chinese artists of the Reform and Opening Up period – Jin Shangyi, Wang Yidong, Zhang Jian Jun, Yuan Yunsheng, Ai Xuan, Zeng Xiaofeng, Ma Yun, Mao Xuhui, Zhang Xiaogang, Liao Xinxue and Liu Ziming. Various cultural codes within which ethnic and local culture is interpreted in the paintings of visiting and local artists are identified. These differences in the perception and display of ethno-local specifics are especially evident when artists paint the same ethno-local object – for example, the life of Tibetan ethnic minorities. The glamorous characters of the Tibetan cycle of Zhang Jian Jun and Ai Xuan are strikingly different from the stern Tibetan women in the paintings of Zhang Xiaogang. The main conclusion of the study is that artists of various trends have their own ideological and aesthetic intentions, so they select individual figurative dominants from the whole variety of phenomena of tradition and everyday life of the ethnic group and build them into a new cultural code. It can be argued that the exotic cultural code (the view from the outside, characteristic mainly of visiting artists) presupposes “estrangement” and the dominance of aesthetic form to the detriment of ethno-cultural specifics, while the archaic code (the view from the inside) complements modern ethno-local elements with historical-cultural (folklore) examples. Artists of the esoteric type of coding possess “double vision”: they accurately reproduce the cultural landscape of Yunnan and the “life world” of ethnic minorities, but interpret it through individual optics, using world artistic experience.

Developing paremiological competence of international students within the framework of a Russian-Korean lexicographic project

The article examines the current issues of developing Korean students’ paremiological competence in the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language. The article shows the possibilities of implementing this task within the framework of a student lexicographic project. The participants in the project were Korean students of Russian and Russian-speaking students studying the Korean language and culture. The project activity was aimed at creating a bilingual (Russian-Korean) dictionary of proverbs. We describe the progress of the project and its results. In addition to the dictionary of proverbs published in Korea, the students developed precise interpretations of Russian proverbs, selected Korean equivalents of these proverbs and identified their ethnocultural specifics. Based on authoritative sources, linguocultural comments on proverbs of both languages were developed and included in the dictionary entries. This is how we realized the cross-cultural aspect of the paremiological material description. In the course of working on the project, the students developed the following parameters of paremiological competence: skills of disclosing the meaning, skills of establishing equivalence and providing a linguocultural commentary on proverbs. The final control section confirmed an increase in the students’ development level of these parameters, which allowed us to draw a conclusion about the effectiveness of the project work as a means of developing the international students’ paremiological competence. The article makes a conclusion about the possibility of using research materials in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language and in compiling educational paremiological dictionaries.

Problems of formation of socially mature students in the educational space

The article studies peculiarities of the formation of socially mature students in the educational space. The following problems of this phenomenon may be mentioned: unplanned pregnancy, prematurity of a child, rejection of a child by one or two parents, aggravating heredity, postnatal disorders in physical or mental development, individual features of a child, negative impact of environment and people, lack of educational influence and social maladaptation, as well as other political, socio-economic, and ethnocultural specifics. In the research, attention is paid to procedural aspects of forming social maturity of students in the educational space. Besides, the article presents its model, main aspects of model creation and implementation are reflected. In addition, the author provides the purposes, objectives, factors, and psycho-pedagogical conditions of the considered occurrence. Some of the given factors of the research affecting a child in early preschool, school, and student age can prevent its favourable formation in any educational institution which happens in such a direction as the natural teaching and educational process. The specifics of the faculty are traced in disciplines and competencies that correspond to the characteristics of social maturity of students.

He Modern Ethnic Identity of the Kalmyk Ethnic Group: the Influence of Material Culture and Ritual Practices

The article is devoted to the influence of material culture and ritual practices on the modern ethnic identity of the Kalmyk people. Currently, a kind of ethnic “renaissance” is taking place in Kalmykia, which manifests itself both in the transformation and reactualization of existing ethnic trends, as well as in the construction (reconstruction) of neo-ethnics, the search for new motives of ethnic identity. In addition, there is a local “local” identity, an association of oneself with the administrative region of residence, each of which has its own established ethnocultural specifics. Such ethnotransformation processes were reflected in the related religious and civic affiliation, in the view of one's own history and one's own place in this world. The specificity of the ethnic “renaissance” in modern Kalmyk society is associated with the processes of ethnocultural adaptation of Kalmyks among the peoples of the Volga region and the North Caucasus after their arrival on the Volga in the XVII century. In the XIX–XX centuries, the reduction of pasture lands led to a crisis of nomadic economy and caused the gradual transition of the Kalmyk people to a sedentary lifestyle. However, the Kalmyks did not copy the way of life of neighboring sedentary peoples, but adapted it to their needs based on their own ideas about the world order. Ethnic specificity is reflected in the rituals of the life cycle, as well as calendar rituals. Currently, there has been a change in the maternity rite only in the methods and place of delivery. However, during the prenatal period, food and behavioral prohibitions imposed on a woman persist. Thus, the isolated residence of Kalmyks in the Lower Volga region in a non-ethnic, non-confessional and foreign-speaking region, connected by common origin, common history, customs and aware of themselves as a whole since the 19th century, led to the formation of their ethnic identity. Since the second half of the twentieth century, when the Kalmyks gradually lost some of their specific features, this led to a change in ethnic identity. The processes of changing various aspects of ethnic culture represent the life of an ethnic group, a living process of its development and transformation.

«Кедей» ұғымына қатысты тілдік бірліктердің этномәдени ерекшелігі (қазақ, қырғыз және түрік тілдерінің материалдары негізінде)

This article is devoted to the consideration of the ethno-cultural specificity of linguistic units in relation to the concept of "poor", which is part of the human macrosystem. Language provides insight into the identity, culture, spiritual and material values, way of life, knowledge and understanding of the people. Therefore, the main goal of the research article is to identify the cognitive nature of the concept of “poor”, to consider the specifics, the semantic meaning of this word in the Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Turkish languages, and to show their differences and similarities. The article presents knowledge and thoughts, vocabulary, proverbs, phraseology and catchphrases related to the concept of the “poor”. The analysis of the semantics, linguocognitive meaning of the words baikus, zhalshi, zharly, zharly-zhakybay, beggar included in the Kazakh microconcept of the poor, and phraseological units formed by these words was carried out. The etymology of the Turkish word "yoksul" (poor), set phrases associated with this name, has been ethnolinguistically differentiated. Differences in similar phraseological units found in three languages were compared and demonstrated. Having learned the inner meaning of the language as a whole, one can recognize a whole ethnic group, people. In modern linguistics, the study of the relationship between language and culture is considered as an urgent problem. The study of ethnocultural units related to the concept of the poor, the definition of the history of their origin, the consideration of the scope of their application at the present time, as well as the definition of their place in the historical vocabulary, culture, customs and traditions of our people emphasize the relevance of the article.

COMPREHENSIVE METHODOLOGY FOR TRANSLATION ANALYSIS OF CROSS-CULTURAL INCONGRUITY IN ENGLISH ANECDOTES

The article substantiates the problem of performing translation analysis of cross-cultural incongruity in English anecdotes in Ukrainian translation using the methodology consisting of four methodological blocks (qualification, linguocultural, linguistic, and translation ones). The purpose of the article is to justify the presented cognitive and discursive methodology for translation analysis of cross-cultural incongruity when transferring the comic in English anecdotes into Ukrainian. The tasks of the research are the following: to characterize the methods of linguistic and cultural analysis in the study of the ethnocultural specificity of the conceptual picture of the world embodied in English anecdotes; to describe the methods of linguistic analysis of verbal means of expressing the comic in English anecdotes; to analyze the strategies and tactics of rendering the comic in Ukrainian translation of English anecdotes. The research material is taken from anecdotes in translation, presented in the collections Awesome Jokes by S. Keller and the resource 1001 Jokes by R. Wiseman on the Internet site, which were rendered into Ukrainian mostly by amateur translators, and in which comic effect was adequately represented in translation. 1112 anecdotes were studied, including 807 context realization of key concepts of the comic in original and translation. The research methodology of translation analysis of cross-cultural incongruity in English anecdotes during their translation into Ukrainian, in addition to the application of general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, systematization, and induction, relies on the methodological base of linguocultural studies, cognitive linguistics, and translation studies. The cognitive and discursive nature of the research determines the choice of presentation of the research methodology in the form of methodological blocks, which include qualification, linguistic and cultural, linguistic and translation blocks. The qualification methodological block is a selection of relevant empirical material and general characterization of the phenomenon of the comic from the perspective of linguocultural, linguistic, and translation studies aspects of the incongruity of the English anecdote and supposes the method of continuous sampling. Further, the study of crosscultural incongruity caused by the ethnocultural features of the conceptual worldviews of the English and Ukrainian peoples presupposes the use of methods of linguocultural analysis constituting the linguocultural methodological block: the method of cultural and historical analysis, linguocultural analysis, interpretive and textual analysis, conceptual analysis, comparative analysis. Cross-cultural incongruity caused by the systemic and structural features of the linguistic world pictures of Englishmen and Ukrainians determines the use of methods of linguistic analysis in the linguistic methodological block: methods of contextual, distributive, component, and linguostylistic analysis. The study of the means of translation of verbal means of creating the comic in the translations of anecdotes into Ukrainian determines applying translational and transformational analysis which constitute the translation methodological block. The article argues that using the described methodology consisting of four methodological blocks (qualification, linguocultural, linguistic, and translation ones) allows us to draw the regularities in solving the problem of cross-cultural incongruity when translating English anecdotes into Ukrainian, thus connecting the type of incongruity with the means of its representation in translation.

Эмотивная суггестивность в современном китайском художественном дискурсе (на примере романа Юй Хуа «Жить», 1992)

Introduction. The study examines some theoretical aspects and outlines practical approaches to the analysis of emotive density and its suggestiveness in contemporary Chinese fictional discourse. The work’s shift of attention focus to stylistic emotive attractors and points of structural tension in the text has formed a research interface, and makes it possible to identify some approaches to the analysis of emotive density in contemporary Chinese fictional discourse. Goals. The study aims to determine the functions of emotivity in the language of literary text in terms of ethnocultural specificity and semantic realization through the example of Yu Hua’s To Live (1992). Materials and methods. Theoretically, the work contains traces of integral and suggestive linguistics related to functional syntax and pragmatics, all that to yield an interdisciplinary approach. The artistic agenda of the novel acts as an isolated subjective world model and is viewed as a cognitive set of emotive attractions, the latter’s understanding and perception be determined by personal and social experiences along the axis ‘author–character–reader’. Results. Emotivity and emotional modes of Chinese fictional discourse are characterized by spatial connectivity between structural tension elements, the function of plot-building, individual features inherent to the speakers’ speech portraits, and actual speech effects on the recipient. Becoming a central element of text, emotivity acts as a meta-entity. The systemic stylistic relations of the multi-level linguistic units of the literary text and discourse tend to reflect the general correlation potentials between the functional/semantic fields of emotivity, expressiveness and modality.

Этно-культуральные факторы востребованности альтернативных практик в сфере физического и психического здоровья

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Objective. </strong>Study aims to investigate the ethno-cultural factors of demand for alternative practices in the sphere of health and psychological well-being among Russian youth. <br><strong>Background. </strong>The decision to seek help is critical to the health and psychological well-being of the individual and society. Turning to non-conventional practices (psychic, paranormal, etc.) to solve problems in the field of both physical and mental health and psychological well-being can be associated with potential risks. <br><strong>Study design. </strong>Quantitative cross-sectional study of adolescents and youth in several Russian regions: Saint-Petersburg and Leningradskaya region, Irkutsk, Murmansk and Tomsk regions, Kamchatka and Krasnoyarsk regions, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Data collection was carried out in the form of an online survey in November-December 2020. <br><strong>Participants. </strong>The study sample consisted of 1258 adolescents and young people aged 14 years and older, of which 671 are adolescents and young people who identify themselves as indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation. Young men constituted 33% of the sample, mean age – 22,1 years (<em>min =</em> 14, <em>max =</em> 35; <em>SD =</em> 6,26). <br><strong>Measurements. </strong>The several scales for assessing the help-seeking and related attitudes towards alternative practices, self-assessment of mental health (HBSC scale). Descriptive statistics, contingency tables to assess differences by ethnicity and gender and a logistic regression model predicting intention to future use of the services were calculated. <br><strong>Results. </strong>Young people's appeal to providers of alternative practices of help (magicians, fortune-tellers, psychics, etc.) has no ethno-cultural specifics. The youth of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East significantly more often than the youth of another ethnicity turn only to shamans, who are part of the unique spiritual culture of these ethnic groups but not to any other group of practitioners. <br><strong>Conclusions. </strong>Asking for help from different representatives of alternative assistance is interconnected, which may be the result of "teenager experimentation" in different areas of life, or openness to new experience, including in relation to the search for different types of help. The second important factor of use of alternative services is the distrust of official medicine, which motivates people to use alternative types of health care (turning to shamans, fortune tellers, magicians, sorcerers, etc.).</p>

Russian and Chinese phraseological units of religious themes with components-numerals five, seven and ten

This article is devoted to the comparative analysis of the numbering phraseological units with a religious component in the Russian and Chinese linguistic cultures. The object of the study is phraseological units of the Russian and Chinese languages of religious themes containing components-numerals five, seven and ten. The subject of the study is the linguistic and national-cultural features of Russian and Chinese phraseological units with a religious component. In order to identify and describe the similarities and differences in the vision of the world peculiar to the Russian and Chinese peoples, such research methods and techniques as linguistic and cultural analysis, comparative method, descriptive method, etymological analysis, etc. were used. The tasks of this article are carried out with the help of linguistic and cultural analysis of some fragments of the national mentality reflected in the mirror of phraseology. The scientific novelty of the work consists in a detailed study of numeral phraseological units with a religious component in two languages. It seems that Russian phraseological units containing components- the numerals seven and ten, mainly carry a connotative meaning, denoting completeness and perfection. In Chinese, phraseological units with the above components have a closer connection with Taoist teaching than with Buddhism and Confucianism. The comparative study of numeral phraseological units in both languages contributes to the penetration into a different cultural reality, the understanding of the ethnocultural specifics of the numerical code associated with the religious sphere.

Symbolism of the number “four” in English and Kazakh Languages

The article considers the comparative study of the symbolism of English and Kazakh stable combinations, as well as proverbs and sayings with the numerical component “four”. The study revealed both similarities and differences in the symbolism of the number “four” in English and Kazakh languages, which is explained by the universality of the character of the symbols on the one hand and the fact that there is an ethnocultural specificity in the connotative meaning, which is reflected in the culture and language of the people. The universality of the symbolization of numbers is determined by the anthropocentric worldview and the universalsystem of human development, as well as the desire of a person to explain the structure of the world through the sacred power of numbers. At the end of the article the authors came to conclusion that the numerals with the component four as part of stable combinations in English and Kazakh Languages acquire a symbolic meaning. Stable combinations with the numeral component characterize various aspects of human life: its external qualities and internal properties, behavior, relationships with other people, as well as ideas related to the quantitative and spatial development of the world and the universe.

Коммуникативные тактики ведения конфликтной дискуссии (на примере медийной репрезентации заседаний Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН и Еврокомиссии, посвященных специальной военной операции в Украине)

The article examines the features of political discourse within the framework of the military conflict in Ukraine. The relevance of the study is due to the need to identify communicative and speech strategies and their tactics in the positions of opposing sides to resolve the conflict. The purpose of the article is to analyze the strategies and tactics of the communicative behavior of politicians in a military conflict based on the material of reports at the thematic and linguistic levels. The work was carried out using the method of contextual analysis, descriptive method. The research material was the texts of speeches by the official representative of Russia to the UN General Assembly and the EU representative to the European Commission. The authors come to the conclusion that the communicative behavior of politicians within the framework of non-controversial speeches has its own characteristics at the thematic as well as at the linguistic level. The topic of Ursula von der Leyen’s speeches during this period is reduced to the general theme “The future of Europe”, where the main threat to the future may be “Russian aggression” along with the energy crisis. In the speeches of S.V. Lavrov’s main topic is “the policy of the “collective West”” and “The Ukrainian regime”. As a result of the analysis, it was revealed that in official speeches there are emotional evaluative vocabulary, periphrases, evaluative adjectives, metaphorical models that implement such communicative and speech tactics as persuasion, condemnation, appeal to facts, support for the affected state, promises using the techniques of “reference to authorities”, “reinforcement”, “quoting”, “giving examples”, “introducing elements of informality” and others. The authors of the article show that the ethno-cultural specificity of the communicative behavior of politicians involved in the military conflict of countries on the part of European politicians is manifested in such features as “preservation of democracy”, “protection of democratic values” from autocrats. The Russian side in its speeches appeals to the preservation of traditional values calls for the fight against discrimination on religious grounds, with aggressive derussification.

The Role of the Associative Experiment in the Formation of the Linguacultural Concept "HARBIN"

The article is based on the theories of the concept of Yu.S. Stepanov, V.V. Kolesov, S.G. Vorkachev, V.A. Maslova and others. The author analysis HARBIN in the linguacultural context. It is described an associative free and directed experiment conducted by the method of I.A. Sternin in order to isolate the core of the concept and its periphery. The respondents of different age groups among both Russians and Chinese named 3‒6 associates on the stimulus word Harbin, which allowed to summarize all the associations and to allocate to groups on the genus-species principle. Our hypothesis is confirmed: subject-conceptual or material associations depend on nationality, level of education, as well as on the age of the respondents. Comparison of associative brings us rich material for mastering and understanding the language in its ethno-cultural specificity. As well as the use of associative-semantic fields of words as a verbal expression of concepts can be used in teaching the language in a national audience.

Малая проза Ильи Одегова в контексте транскультурности

The article presents a study of the flash fiction written by the contemporary Kazakhstani writer Ilya Odegov from the perspective of the theory of translingualism. The aim of the article is to consider peculiar features of author’s individual view of the world that was formed in the conditions of Kazakh reality by a bilingual writer of the Russian origin; to determine the nature of the influence of artistic transculturality on the cognitive view of the world of a creative person. The article focuses on identifying images of the Kazakh linguistic culture explicated in the flash fiction of Ilya Odegov. These images manifest ethno-cultural specificity of the writer’s transcultural creative personality and his individual author’s view of the world. The study of the fiction written by a representative of the “borderland literature” in the context of translingualism will allow us toconsider it in the light of the general trend in the development of world literature gravitating towards transculturality.

ETHNOCULTURAL IDENTITY IN LITERARY TEXT

Structural and also other formal differences between the translated text and the original work are analyzed in the article. Contradiction in meaning has been revealed due to the impossibility of translating individual elements of the original text which is recognized as inevitable in the conditions of ethnocultural specificity, differences in the sets of expressive means peculiar in different languages. Moreover the personality of a translator, his experience and skills also affect the completeness and accuracy of the translation of the original work. The relevance of the study consists in the fact that since ancient times, translation has been a source of necessary knowledge and the foundations of culture. The role of the translation lies in mediation between different cultures and languages. Meaning of translation of prosaic text is constantly growing. This procedure that involves translating into another language what is contained in the text of the original language is a complex operation and requires suitable skills. At translation of prosaic texts one should be guided, firstly, by the principle of communication. It is necessary to emphasize three most important rules which are should be followed when translating ethno-markers in prosaic texts: information must be transmitted clearly and in a responsible manner; the target-oriented text should be adopted for recipients; it is important that the translation can fulfill its role, i.e, to convey information with respect to ethnical realities of the language being studied. Aim of the study is to consider the role of ethnical aspects and challenges in translation of prosaic texts. This type of translation requires thematic linguistic and cultural competency.

Крымско-татарский мир в «Солнце мертвых» И.С. Шмелева

The purpose of the article is to examine the Crimean Tatar world depicted by I.S. Shmelev in the story “The Sun of the Dead” in an imagological aspect; to show the relationship of representatives of various nationalities living in the Crimea during the Civil War. The content of the study is an analysis of the Crimean Tatar image in Shmelev’s story and a description of intercultural communication in Crimea. The analysis reveals the ethnocultural specifics of Russian and Tatar in the historical and literary context, shows the convergence and unification of different ethnic groups and faiths at a crucial social moment.

Nakhichevan Armenian Colony on the Don (1779-1870)

The article is devoted to the study of the Armenian colony of New Nakhichevan on the Lower Don with an emphasis on institutional aspects, which should help in solving the general task of analyzing the mechanisms and methods of effective self-organization of ethno-cultural groups in a foreign environment in different times.
 The author assumes that the system of self-government, formed on the basis of Catherine the II’s letter of grant, was an important tool for ensuring the identity and preserving the ethno-cultural specificity of the residents of Nakhichevan-on-Don and five Armenian villages of the Armenian district.
 A characteristic feature of its public administration was its formation on an ethnic basis – it united the Armenians (urban and rural residents) who had migrated from the Crimea. The legal basis of the colony was, in addition to the all-Russian laws, the Armenian “rights and customs”. At the same time, from the very first years of the colony’s foundation there started a process of its quite close integration into the all-Russian system of administration as well as gradual limitation of the granted privileges and benefits in other issues. Limitation of independence of the colony occurred in connection with the gradual unification of urban governance, and it was also associated with an increase in the Orthodox (Russian) population of the city. Full and final transition to the all-Russian model occurred in the era of “great reforms”.
 Nevertheless, until the February Revolution of 1917 and the radical democratization of suffrage (“four-tail”) the Armenian element entirely dominated the city authorities. After the complete loss of influence in the city Duma, the Armenian community had to create the “Nakhichevan on the Don Armenian Community” in the form of national-cultural autonomy in order to preserve its ethnic identity.
 The self-government of Nakhichevan provided internal stability and the possibility to preserve the ethno-cultural identity. The rapid socio-economic development of the region and the ethno-demographic changes inevitably led to assimilation processes. The loss of autonomy and actual dominance in Nakhichevan-on-Don by the Armenian part of the population only accelerated these processes.

Герменевтический аспект лингвокультурологического анализа этнофилософских концептов

This article analyses the concept as a unit of the worldview experience of collective consciousness, which has a linguistic expression and is marked by ethnocultural specificity. The author comes to the conclusion that the study of the systemic relations of ethnophilosophical concepts in language, myth, epic, traditional culture, as well as the national semantic space is at the same time a modelling of the linguistic view of the world and the ethnophilosophical paradigm, which represents a promising field for further research.