Articles and research findings

This study examines how the concept of Mother Earth is constructed in Chingiz Aitmatov’s prose as a semantic, cultural, and ecological category. To address this gap, the study analyses four prose works: Plakha (The Scaffold), Qosh Bol, Gülsary (Farewell, Gulsary!), Belyy Parokhod (The White Ship), and I Dol’she Veka Dlitsya Den’ (The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years). The study uses a qualitative conceptual-semantic analysis of 37 passages where natural elements acquire ethical, emotional, or symbolic meaning. The passages were selected through close reading and grouped by recurrent lexical, metaphorical, narrative, and culturally marked features. The analysis reveals four interconnected conceptual models: Mother Earth as a source of life, as a maternal protector, as a moral authority, and as a keeper of memory. These models show that nature in Aitmatov’s prose functions not merely as a setting or poetic image, but as an ethical framework through which human responsibility, cultural continuity, ecological vulnerability, and moral judgment are articulated. The study contributes to cultural linguistics and literary ecocriticism by showing how Mother Earth operates as a structured conceptual model within Aitmatov’s artistic worldview.

This article examines the theoretical and methodological foundations of using corpus data in values-based Kazakh language teaching. Values-oriented education is considered an effective approach to fostering learners’ moral, cultural, and social responsibility. The study analyzes linguistic units representing national values based on data from the Kazakh National Corpus, the Akhmet Baitursynuly Kazakh–Russian Parallel Corpus, and the Folklore Text Corpus. The frequency and contextual use of concepts such as honor, dignity, patience, kindness, and generosity were investigated through the Keyword-in-Context (KWIC) method. Based on corpus evidence, a three-stage model for selecting and integrating value-oriented content into language teaching is proposed. The findings demonstrate that corpus-based instruction enhances not only language proficiency but also learners’ cultural awareness and axiological worldview. Keywords: values-based education, corpus linguistics, Kazakh language, national values, language corpus, axiological approach. // // «Тіл мен әдебиетті құндылық бағдарлы оқыту: тәжірибе, мәселелер және перспективалары» атты ғалымдар мен мұғалімдердің халықаралық ғылыми- практикалық конференциясы материалдарының жинағы. 2 томдық., 2-том. – Астана: Л.Н. Гумилев атындағы ЕҰУ, 2025..17-21 бб.

In line with the main strategy of our country aimed at the digitalization of the humanities, in recent years, there has been a growing interest in creating textual databases. This trend is recognized as part of global developments of contemporary importance. This article explores the opportunities for scientific text analysis and research offered by the development of “The Kazakh Folklore Corpus.” The study aims to analyze the significance of systematizing samples of Kazakh oral literature through corpus linguistics methods in order to identify their linguistic, structural, and semantic features. The main areas of the study include the collection of texts, their digitization, morphological and semantic annotation, concordance creation, and statistical analysis of linguistic units. The scientific significance of the research lies in establishing the prerequisites for building a linguistic corpus database that enables the study of Kazakh folklore at a new level, analyzing its textual structures using modern methodologies, and introducing the rich layers of the language into academic circulation. The key results include the presentation of a corpus model of Kazakh folklore texts and the demonstration of its potential for comprehensive linguistic analysis. This study opens up a new research space in Kazakh linguistics by adapting the theory and practice of corpus linguistics to national folklore and contributes a methodological basis to the development of Kazakh folklore studies.