The National-Cultural Code is a Phenomenon that Makes Up Linguistic Consciousness (Based on the Kazakh and Turkish Languages)

Abstract

The article explores in detail the interaction between humans and nature in the process of achieving material and spiritual values that form the unique culture of each society. Due to its dynamic, collective, and systemic nature, the cultural knowledge accumulated by society from the past to the present is preserved within cultural memory. The transmission of this knowledge from generation to generation is carried out through language. The language of each nation has different codes that encrypt data. This cultural information plays a key role in the study and recognition of various nationalities and their cultures. The scientific and practical significance of this work lies in the function of cultural codes. These universal and national values are called “cultural codes”. At the end of the 20th century, linguistic research began to shift from structural approaches to those based on an anthropological perspective. This direction opened the way for examining language and culture as closely interconnected phenomena. At the intersection of these two fields, new sub-disciplines emerged within linguistics. Within this context, new theories and findings arose in the fields of linguoculturology and cognitive linguistics, reflecting the relationship between language, culture, and cognition. On this basis, the main purpose of the article is to analyze cultural codes reflecting the worldview, mentality, national and cultural values of the Kazakh and Turkish people. The study focuses on the characteristics of the national-cultural code in Kazakh and Turkish languages. The following methods are used in the article: generalization, classification, interpretation and analysis. As a result of the study, the linguistic features of the national-cultural codes in the Kazakh and Turkish languages were analyzed, and their common and specific characteristics were identified. The value of this work lies in its contribution to the development of contemporary Kazakh linguoculturology through the classification of cultural codes in the Kazakh and Turkic languages.