ETHNO-CULTURAL FEATURES OF REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT "KONOK" ("GUEST") IN THE KYRGYZ LANGUAGE
The article analyzes the concept of «konok» («guest»), which refers to humanity universals. It’s been revealed that the concept takes one of important places in the cognitive space of the Kyrgyz people and is referred to key concepts of the Kyrgyz national culture. As a result of the analysis it was defined that actualization of the concept «konok» is closely related with the concept of nomads’ house- the symbol of the their culture – yurta. The concepts structure formed at the level of perception, its content consists of information about social realm, interrelations in society obtained by a nomad in the process of cognitive reality. The content of the concept of «konok» («guest»), which can be verbalized and reflected in the linguistic picture of the world, is realized depending on the regulation associated with tradition and religious precepts. The structure diversity of the mentioned concept is conditioned by its social and communicative value in the people’s life. The full conceptual volume of this concept can be described by various and multi-structural units of the Kyrgyz language. As a result of the analysis it has been also revealed that the lexical unit «konok» («guest») and «meiman» («guest»), defined in the dictionary entries as equivalent, interchangeable and synonymous, have specific shades in semantics and are used to differentiate of various types of guests in life of the Kirghiz people.