METAPHOR AS A REPRESENTATION OF TATAR CULTURE IN CHILDREN FOLKLORE

Abstract

Currently, to study cognitive processes, they often turn to folklore texts, since in them people have long since recorded knowledge of the world around them. This article discusses the linguistic approach to the study of Tatar children's folklore. The authors argue that the study of the language of children's folklore is an extremely urgent problem of modern linguistic-folkloristics of the Tatar language. An attempt is made in the article to reveal the specifics of children's folklore from the perspective of cultural knowledge, linguistic features, etc. The idea is substantiated that the metaphor in Tatar children's folklore is one of the ways to form a linguistic picture of the world and, at the same time, one of the ways of its reflection and cognition. It is proved that the metaphor should be considered as one of the main means of human thinking, as a product of human thought. The scientific novelty of the work is determined by the consideration of Tatar children's folklore that has been little studied in this perspective. As a result of the analysis of the original text of children's folklore through partial sampling, the types of metaphors that were used by the authors were identified and determined. It is concluded that animalistic metaphors are the most frequent for lullabies and petals. It is shown that in the texts of children's folklore, a plant metaphor is used to nominate children.