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Narrative of Dispute in Kazakh Folklore: Litigation as a Cultural Concept in Oral and Epic Traditions

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This study examines the cultural and pragmatic logic of litigation in Kazakh folklore. It is inseparable from oral performance, ethical authority, and collective memory. The present study demonstrates how litigation reveals that justice was not merely administered but performed through storytelling, speech performance, rhetorical wisdom, and communal praxis. The study reviews examples across genres and shows that Kazakh folklore presents litigation as a narrative mechanism that serves as a signpost for a communicative strategy, a discursive performance, and a linguistic phenomenon. Litigation as a cultural concept is embedded in traditional genres through the activities of the Biy institution. The decline of the Biy institution marked the end of an era, but its narrative echoes still resonate in the folk stories, myths, and moral imagination of Kazakh culture.

Source: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies

DOI: 10.59045/nalans.2025.88

Authors: Yerzhan Aryn, Zhanalik Baltabayeva, Yerlan Kassen, Zharkynbike Suleimenova

Institutions: Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Kazakh National Women's Teacher Training University

Language: English

Topic: Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W7128820628

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