XXIII Winter Scientific School: the 75th Anniversary of Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages (Almaty, 19-23 December, 2016)
The XXIII International Winter Scientific School "Cognitive linguistics and conceptual research" was organized on December 19-23, 2016. This school was conducted on the basis of the Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages (Almaty). School participants were graduate students, undergraduates, university professors from four countries: Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan. The lecturers at the School were the Professors Olga Igorevna Brodovich (Rector of the Institute of Foreign Languages, St. Petersburg, Russia), Zamira Kasymbekovna Derbisheva (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), Vladimir Ilyich Karasik (Volgograd), Olga Niko-laevna Morozova (Saint Petersburg), Marina Vladimirovna Pimenova (Saint Petersburg), Karlyga Taskalievna Utegenova (Uralsk, Kazakhstan). The themes of the lectures at the School were the issues of cognitive linguistics, conceptology, cultural linguistics, linguistic personology, conceptual, linguistic, folklore worldview. The beauty of the former capital, magnificent mountains, the living scientific communication, extensive cultural program - these are the main factors that attract scientists from different countries, who came to this school from the Baltic Sea to Issyk-Kul Lake.