LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL SUBCORPUS: CULTURAL SEMANTICS OF THE RELIGIOUS WORDS

The article discusses the lexical and cultural semantics of religious words. The cultural semantics of religious words is revealed in connection with the knowledge, faith, and national existence of the people and additionally includes information of religious content. The reason is, traditional religious knowledge is the core of our national identity. It is known that the daily life, customs, beliefs and existence of the Kazakh people are connected with the religion of Islam. In this regard, religious words are found in oral and written literature, fairy tales, proverbs and sayings. The article analyzes the religious words found in the works of “Word of the Ancestors”. Descriptive, ethnolinguistic, lexico-semantic methods were used. The lexical and cultural semantic analysis of religious words in the article is of theoretical and practical importance. In particular, it is useful research for creating a Linguistic and Cultural dictionary, replenishing the National Corpus Base, and the work of doctoral and undergraduate students.