REFLECTION OF THE EURASIAN MENTALITY IN THE UNIVERSAL CONCEPTS
The article deals with the reflection of the Eurasian mentality formed in Kazakhstan in universal, human concepts. Eurasian mentality is a special type of mentality which has arisen as a result of prolonged contact of representatives of various ethnic groups living in the same area. Value concepts characteristic for Russian concept sphere retain their basic cultural values, but change connotations, expand or limit their meanings in accordance with the surrounding reality, under the influence of the Kazakh culture. One of the features of these concepts is representation in their meanings of Turkism actively operating in the Russian language in Kazakhstan. With an example of the universal concept house we can see a result of the cross-cultural communication, because of which not only the peripheral layers but also the conceptual layer can change.