Time in People’s Models of Linguistic Categorization
Time in People’s Models of Linguistic Categorization

Summary/Abstract: The paper is dedicated to the linguistic categorization of the concept of time. Based on the Kazakh language, the authors studied the models of people’s conceptualization of time, which reveal particularities of the phenomenological experience of the Kazakhs and the role of natural and scientific knowledge in the language representation of this concept by the example of the following units: second, minute, hour, day, week, month, season, year and era. According to scientists, the concept of time reveals the perception of environment by Kazakh people. Language descriptions and the concepts they cover are associated with different aspects of everyday life: time of cooking meat, boiling milk, boiling tea, milking mares, etc.

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