The “Caucasian thesaurus” or “conceptosphere of mountaineer” in the S. Babaev’s short stories (“The Father’s Book”)
A.D. Atabieva
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Abstract. The purpose of this scientific research is to assess the semantic content of the short story prose of the Balkarian writer Suleiman Khyzovich Babaev in the aspect of reflecting the “conceptosphere of the mountaineer”, on the basis of which a recognizable “Caucasian thesaurus” emerges. To solve the proposed task, the following are involved in the work uses biographical, typological, ethnoontological, interpretative, structural and semiotic research methods. The article presents a detailed analysis of the cycle of short stories included in the “Book of the Father”; the nodal thematic lines and problems of the works are identified; the author’s idea in the interpretation of such value orientations as the connection of generations, the continuity of ethnic traditions, a set of ideological attitudes, etc. The philosophical reflections of the writer are built around the central image – a man representing the authentic appearance of taulu (balkarian/mountaineer), in whom the age-old foundations, experience, knowledge and wisdom of the people are synthesized. Through the prism of the worldview of the hero-narrator, the fundamental criteria by which the mountaineer is identified are measured. S. Babayev’s short stories allow us to bring together ideas fixed in the ethnic consciousness about national mentality, morality, ethics, connection with the family, love for the father’s land, the value of human words and deeds, the responsibility of everyone for the well-being of all. Strict compliance with moral imperatives is a necessary condition for the existence of an ethnic group for centuries, this principle is followed by the main character of the analyzed book.
Keywords: Suleiman Babaev, short stories, the image of the father, ethnic consciousness, the conceptosphere of the mountaineer, Caucasian thesaurus, generational connection
For citation. Atabieva A.D. The “Caucasian thesaurus” or “conceptosphere of mountaineer” in the S. Babaev’s short stories (“The Father’s Book”). News of the Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Center of RAS.2024. Vol. 26. No. 5. Pp. 273–282. DOI: 10.35330/1991-6639-2024-26-5-273-282
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Information about the author
Asiyat D. Atabieva, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Senior Researcher, Institute of Humanitarian Researches – branch of the Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
360000, Russia, Nalchik, 18 Pushkin street;
bolatovaatabieva@mail.ru, ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-6108, SPIN-код: 7303-0391