THE LANGUAGE OF TATAR CHILDREN'S FOLKLORE: FEATURES OF THE FUNCTIONING OF THE TERMS OF BLOOD RELATIONSHIP

Abstract

The life of people, their way of life, spiritual and cultural development, life experience are determined, first of all, by the objects around them, phenomena, the names of these objects and phenomena. That is why in science special importance is attached to the study of lexical units of the language. The terms of kinship occupy the central and main place among them. This paper deals with one of the oldest layers of the lexical fund of the language – the names of kinship. The importance of studying this lexical-thematic group is determined by the fact that they denote vital concepts, have stability over the centuries, and serve as valuable material, both for diachronic learning of a language and for studying the history and ethnography of its speakers. That is why there is a growing attention of the scholars to this topic. The object of this study is the vocabulary of Tatar children’s folklore which is related to terms of blood relationship. The subject is the terms of consanguinity. Using the descriptive method in the study, the methods of linguoculturological, component and semantic analysis of lexical material, the authors revealed some features of the functioning of the terms of kinship relations in the texts of slumber songs, humorous sayings, counting-out rhymes, etc.