National and cultural features of phraseological dialecticisms in Karachay-Balkar language

In the article, based on lexical and semantic analysis, dialectal phraseological units of the Karachay-Balkar language are systematized and established for the first time within the framework of its national and cultural specificity.

Aim. The study is to identify the socio-cultural potential of dialectal phraseological units that convey the ethnic characteristics of the linguistic worldview of speakers of the tsok dialect.

Materials and methods research. The theoretical and methodological basis of this study was provided by the works of Russian scholars and linguists engaged in the study of dialectal phraseology in the Karachay-Balkar language. The following lexicographic sources have been used: “Explanatory Dictionary of the Karachay-Balkar Language” (in three volumes); “Brief Dictionary of the Malkar Central/West Dialect”; “Karachay-Balkar Phraseological Dictionary”, as well as materials from the fiction of D. Taumurzaev and I. Gadiev. The study primarily uses methods of structural-semantic, contextual analysis, and the descriptive method.

Results. Based on the collected factual material, the distinctive national and cultural characteristics and nuanced meanings of dialectical phraseological units have been analyzed and identified. From a functional and semantic perspective, the object of the study is dialectal phraseological units characteristic of the tsok dialect in all their diversity and richness.

Conclusion. The practical significance of this work lies in the fact that the results and conclusions of the study can be applied in lectures and seminars on the modern Karachay-Balkar language and in the compilation of translated dictionaries of Turkic languages.