THE SEMANTIC SPACE OF THE CONCEPT OF "TIME" IN THE LANGUAGE PICTURE OF THE WORLD (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF BASHKIR FOLK TALES ABOUT ANIMALS)

The article is devoted to the study of the concept of "time," revealed on the material of Bashkir folk tales about animals, as the oldest and universal category of being and as a concept of consciousness with the peculiarities of its reflection in the Bashkir language picture of the world. A linguistic and cultural analysis of the concept of "time" was carried out, which is implemented in the texts of fairy tales with the meaning of time units and time segments as a fragment of the Bashkir language picture of the world. It is noted that the main means of reflecting the concept of "time" in the fairy-tale text is verbalization, various language units that carry the cultural information of society participate in it.