Yessenbayeva A.M.

M.Kh.Dulaty Taraz State University, Kazakhstan

 

ÒHE FEATURES OF  KAZAKH LINGUISTICS IN THE XX - EARLY XXI CENTURIES

 

Linguistics is the scientific  study of human language [1.30]. Linguistics can be broadly broken into four categories or subfields of study: interlinguistics, external linguistics, history of Kazakh language, the law standard of language.

The first subfield of linguistics is interlinguistics. It is the study of language structure, or grammar. This focuses on the system of rules followed by the users of a language. It includes the study of morphology (the formation and composition of words), syntax (the formation and composition of phrases and sentences from these words), and phonology (sound systems). Phonetics is a related branch of linguistics concerned with the actual properties of speech sounds and nonspeech sounds, and how they are produced and perceived. Lexicology is the part of linguistics which studies words. Function of stylistic that investigates speech on the level of phonetics is called phonostylistics. It studies the functional differentiation of pronunciation. Morphonology  is a branch of linguistics that studies the structure, the system of phonemes and morphemes variation of a language is not completely out of the output characteristics of its phonology, and the totality of the phenomena of nature morphonological specific to the language. Word formation is the formation of new words (derivatives) of cognate words and arose as a result of the formal semantic relationship between the derivative and producing his word [4.112].

The second subfield of linguistics is   external linguistics. Linguistics also looks at the broader context in which language is influenced by social, cultural, historical and political factors. It is divided into two fields: 1) sociolinguistics, which investigates   language as it functions in society; the study of the interaction between linguistic and social variables. This includes the study of  ethnolinguistics, graphical linguistics, cultural linguistics, comparative - historical linguistics.2) metalinguistics which explores branch of linguistics that studies the features of the substantive aspect of language in relation to thought and social life of the speaker's staff as essential insights into the nature of linguistic units and regularities of their functioning. It includes the study of psycholinguistics, which explores the representation and function of language in the mind, neurolinguistics, which looks at language processing in the brain, aesthetics, logical-grammar, linguistic philosophy, cognitive linguistics.

The third is the history of Kazakh language. It investigates formation and development of language. It is divided into two fields, such as historical grammar and history of literature. The fourth is the law standard of language.

The last years Kazakh linguistics is developing, it has own ideas, new branches, methods and new investigation objects. Linguistics is not communication tool in XX-XXI centuries, it is also evolution of linguistic ideas.

External linguistics is a branch of linguistics, founded in XX century and the beginning of the XXI emerging new areas of its ideas and methods, and begins full development of these new targets.

The primary importance and research facilities, the perception of the environment and human qualities by communicating the value of open discourse fields of external linguistics:

- Ethno- linguistics

- Cognitive linguistics

 - Computational linguistics

- Psycholinguistics

- Sociolinguistics

- Neurolinguistics

- Generative linguistics

- Anthropology linguistics   

- Pragmalinguistics

- Paralinguistics and etc.

1. Ethnolinguistics (sometimes called  cultural linguistics) is a field of linguistics which studies the relationship between language and culture, and the way different ethnic groups perceive the world. It is the combination between ethnology and linguistics [2].

2. Cognitive linguistics (CL) refers to the branch of linguistics that interprets language in terms of the concepts, sometimes universal, sometimes specific to a particular tongue, which underlie its forms. It is thus closely associated with semantics but is distinct from psycholinguistics, which draws upon empirical findings from cognitive psychology in order to explain the mental processes that underlie the acquisition, storage, production and understanding of speech and writing.

3. Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective.

4. Psycholinguistics or psychology of language  is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language.

5. Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and the effects of language use on society. Sociolinguistics differs from sociology of language in that the focus of sociolinguistics is the effect of the society on the language, while the sociology of language focuses on language's effect on the society [2].

6. Neurolinguistics is the study of the neural mechanisms in the human brain that control the comprehension, production, and acquisition of language. As an interdisciplinary field, neurolinguistics draws methodology and theory from fields such asneuroscience, linguistics, cognitive science, neurobiology, communication disorders, neuropsychology, and computer science.

7. Generative linguistics is a school of thought within linguistics that makes use of the concept of a generative grammar. The term "generative grammar" is used in different ways by different people, and the term "generative linguistics" therefore has a range of different, though overlapping, and meanings [3].

8. Anthropological linguistics is the study of the relations between language and culture and the relations between human biology, cognition and language.

9. Paralinguistics is a branch of linguistics studying sound features that accompany speech but do not pertain to language. Paralinguistics studies, for example, loudness of speech, uncodified variations in intonation, the distribution of pauses, and sounds used to fill pauses [3].

10. Pragmalinguistics is a branch of linguistics studying theory and practice.

The relevance of external linguistics to the fields like anthropology, cognitive science, language study, philosophy, psychology, and sociology and etc. has been recognized for a long time. It has been investigated clearly in  the XX-XXI centuries.   These fields are main problems of Kazakh linguistics XX - early XXI centuries.

Bibliography:

1.    Kaydarov.A.T. The problems of Kazakh linguistics.-Almaty: 1998.-181 áåò

2.    Kazakh Soviet Encyclopedia. 7 volume,-544p.

3.    Kazakh Soviet Encyclopedia. 5 volume,-532 p.

4.    Problems of linguistics. ¹4,1956