Dialogic Character in the National Nonverbal Means
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article is dedicated to identifying the dialogic character in the national nonverbal means. Nonverbal means are the national-cultural peculiarity indicators of every nation. Although nonverbal means are characteristic of all the humankind, every nation has its own distinct system of nonverbal elements. Such differences are justified by unique routine, social life, and worldview of those nations. The aim of the article is to define the national dialogic nature in the nonverbal means. For this purpose, Kazakh customs, habitudes, and traditions underlying the nonverbal means are researched, and the theoretical works related to the mentioned phenomenon are reviewed. The value of the article is as follows: 1) nonverbal means related to the customs and traditions of the Kazakh people were identified in communicative acts, and it was confirmed that they possess a dialogical character; 2) nonverbal means with a dialogical nature in Abai's poems were identified; 3) it was determined that nonverbal means related to national attire also establish a dialogical character; 4) a dialogical character is observed through nonverbal means in fairy tale discourse. The scientific and practical significance of the article lies in the fact that the issues discussed and the results obtained can be utilized in the fields of text studies, discourse, cognitive linguistics, ethnolinguistics, and linguistic cultural studies in Kazakh linguistics, as well as in elective courses. During the research, methods for structuring dialogical fragments, structural-semantic analysis, communicative-pragmatic analysis, and comprehensive analysis of the text were employed. The sources of the research consist of scientific linguistic works related to nonverbal means and dialogue. Additionally, examples were collected from the traditional system of ethnographic categories, concepts, and terms of the Kazakh people.
Language: English
Topic: Language and Culture
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403310878