LECTURE 1
MORPHOLOGY OF CULTURE.
LANGUAGE OF CULTURE
PLAN
• WHAT IS CULTURE? BASIC THEORETICAL APPROACHES
• CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
• CULTUROLOGY DEFINITIONS
• MORPHOLOGY OF CULTURE – STRUCTURE, FORMS AND TYPOLOGY
OF CULTURE
• THE LANGUAGE OF CULTURE - SIGNS, FORMS, SYMBOLS, TEXTS
THAT ALLOW PEOPLE TO ENTER INTO COMMUNICATION WITH
EACH OTHER
WHAT IS CULTURE?
BASIC THEORETICAL
APPROACHES
• CULTURE - FROM THE LATIN ROOT COLERE MEANS TO INHABIT, TO
CULTIVATE, OR TO HONOR
• "CULTURA ANIMI," CICERO TUSCULANAE DISPUTATIONES
• CULTURE IS "THE WAY OF LIFE FOR AN ENTIRE SOCIETY“? (THE
HARPERCOLLINS DICTIONARY OF SOCIOLOGY )
• E.B.TYLOR "CULTURE OR CIVILIZATION, TAKEN IN ITS WIDE
ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSE, IS THAT COMPLEX WHOLE WHICH
INCLUDES KNOWLEDGE, BELIEF, ART, MORALS, LAW, CUSTOM, AND
ANY OTHER CAPABILITIES AND HABITS ACQUIRED BY MAN AS A
MEMBER OF SOCIETY" (PRIMITIVE CULTURE)
"SET OF DISTINCTIVE SPIRITUAL, MATERIAL, INTELLECTUAL,
AND EMOTIONAL FEATURES OF SOCIETY OR A SOCIAL GROUP,
AND THAT IT ENCOMPASSES, IN ADDITION TO ART AND
LITERATURE, LIFESTYLES, WAYS OF LIVING TOGETHER, VALUE
SYSTEMS, TRADITIONS AND BELIEFS." (UNESCO, UNIVERSAL
DECLARATION ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY, 2007).
• VALUES, NORMS, AND ARTIFACTS
• VALUES COMPRISE IDEAS ABOUT
WHAT
IN
LIFE
SEEMS
OF
HOW
PEOPLE
WILL
IMPORTANT.
• NORMS
CONSIST OF EXPECTATIONS
BEHAVE IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS.
• ARTIFACTS—THINGS, OR MATERIAL CULTURE—DERIVE FROM THE
CULTURE'S VALUES AND NORMS.
• THE SYMBOLIC VIEW OF CULTURE, THE LEGACY OF CLIFFORD
GEERTZ AND VICTOR TURNER, HOLDS SYMBOLS TO BE BOTH
THE PRACTICES OF SOCIAL ACTORS AND THE CONTEXT THAT
GIVES SUCH PRACTICES MEANING.
• "SYMBOLIC GLOSS" ALLOWS SOCIAL ACTORS TO USE COMMON
SYMBOLS TO COMMUNICATE AND UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER
WHILE STILL IMBUING THESE SYMBOLS WITH PERSONAL
SIGNIFICANCE AND MEANINGS (ANTHONY P. COHEN, THE
SYMBOLIC CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNITY)
• "GIVE
REGULARITY, UNITY AND SYSTEMATICITY TO THE
PRACTICES OF A GROUP." (PIERRE BOURDIEU, OUTLINE OF A
• SOCIOBIOLOGICAL THEORY
• RICHARD DAWKINS HAS SUGGESTED THE EXISTENCE OF
UNITS OF CULTURE—MEMES—ROUGHLY ANALOGOUS TO
GENES IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY (THE SELFISH
GENE)
• THE MEME IS A UNIT OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION,
OR A UNIT OF IMITATION AND REPLICATION, BUT
LATER DEFINITIONS WOULD VARY
• ALFRED L. KROEBER AND CLYDE KLUCKHOHN CULTURE: A
CRITICAL REVIEW OF CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS.
• TOPICAL: A LIST OF TOPICS SUCH AS SOCIAL STRUCTURE,
RELIGION, ECONOMIC SYSTEM, AND SO FORTH
• HISTORICAL: SOCIAL HERITAGE, OR TRADITION, PASSED FROM
GENERATION TO GENERATION
• BEHAVIORAL: SHARED, LEARNED HUMAN BEHAVIOR, A WAY OF
LIFE….
CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
• CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE ARE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF A
SINGLE ENTITY
• CIVILIZATION CAN BE VIEWED AS THE EXTERNAL
MANIFESTATION, AND CULTURE AS THE INTERNAL CHARACTER
OF A SOCIETY
• CIVILIZATION IS EXPRESSED IN PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES
• CULTURE REFERS TO THE SOCIAL STANDARDS AND NORMS OF
BEHAVIOR, THE TRADITIONS, VALUES, ETHICS, MORALITY,
AND RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES THAT ARE HELD IN
COMMON BY MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY.
CULTUROLOGY DEFINITION
• THE TERM "CULTURAL STUDIES" TO DENOTE THE SCIENCE OF
CULTURE WAS INTRODUCED BY AN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST
LESLIE ALVIN WHITE
• GROUP OF DISCIPLINES INCLUDING THEORIES OF LITERATURE,
SOCIOLOGY
OF
CULTURE,
RELIGION
OR
PHILOSOPHY,
PHILOSOPHIES
OF
HISTORY,
POLITICAL
SCIENCE,
AESTHETICS, SEMIOTICS, ETC.
• MORE IDEOLOGICALLY COMMITTED
NEXT
• SEMIOTICS OF CULTURE
• ANATOMY OF CULTURE
NURBEK, TAMERLAN, RIZABEK, VLAD, AXINIYA
THE CONCEPT AND ESSENCE OF
CULTURE
ANATOMY OF CULTURE
LECTURE 2
SEMIOTICS OF CULTURE
ANATOMY OF CULTURE
PLAN
- STRUCTURALISM AND SEMIOTICS IN CULTURAL STUDIES.
SEMIOTIC CONCEPTS OF CULTURE F. SAUSSURE, CHARLES
SANDERS PEIRCE, CHARLES MORRIS
- TEXTOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF CULTURE R. BARTH, O.
SULEIMENOV
- THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF CULTURE
STRUCTURALISM AND SEMIOTICS IN CULTURAL STUDIES.
SEMIOTIC CONCEPTS OF CULTURE F. SAUSSURE,
CH.S. PEIRCE, CH. MORRIS
• LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL SEMIOTICS INVESTIGATES SIGN
SYSTEMS AND THE MODES OF REPRESENTATION THAT HUMANS
USE TO CONVEY FEELINGS, THOUGHTS, IDEAS, AND IDEOLOGIES
• UMBERTO ECO "STUDYING EVERYTHING WHICH CAN BE USED IN
ORDER TO LIE"
(A THEORY OF SEMIOTICS.
1976, P. 7)
TRADITIONS IN MODERN SEMIOTIC THEORY:
• A EUROPEAN TRADITION AND WAS LED BY THE SWISS-FRENCH
LINGUIST FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE . HE SOUGHT TO EXPLAIN
HOW ALL ELEMENTS OF A LANGUAGE ARE TAKEN AS
COMPONENTS OF A LARGER SYSTEM OF LANGUAGE IN USE. THIS
LED TO A FORMAL DISCIPLINE THAT HE CALLED SEMIOLOGY.
• EMERGED OUT OF AMERICAN PRAGMATIC PHILOSOPHY
THROUGH ITS PRIMARY FOUNDER, CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE.
HIS INTEREST IN LOGICAL REASONING LED HIM TO INVESTIGATE
DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF SIGNS AND THE MANNER BY WHICH
HUMANS EXTRACT MEANING FROM THEM.
FERDINAND DE
SAUSSURE -
STRUCTURALIST SCHOOL
• A STRUCTURALIST LOOKS AT THE UNITS OF A SYSTEM AND THE
RULES OF LOGIC THAT ARE APPLIED TO THE SYSTEM, WITHOUT
REGARD TO ANY SPECIFIC CONTENT.
• THE UNITS OF HUMAN LANGUAGE COMPRISE A LIMITED SET OF
SOUNDS CALLED PHONEMES, AND THESE COMPRISE AN UNLIMITED SET
OF WORDS AND SENTENCES, WHICH ARE PUT TOGETHER ACCORDING TO
A SET OF SIMPLE RULES CALLED GRAMMAR.
• FROM SIMPLE UNITS HUMANS DERIVE MORE COMPLEX UNITS THAT ARE
APPLIED TO NEW RULES TO FORM MORE COMPLEX STRUCTURES
FERDINAND DE
SAUSSURE
• THE SMALLEST UNIT OF ANALYSIS IS THE SIGN, MADE UP OF
A SIGNIFIER (ОЗНАЧАЮЩИЙ/ОБОЗНАЧАЮЩЕЕ (ЗВУЧАНИЕ, НАПИСАНИЕ) OR
SENSORY PATTERN AND A SIGNIFIED (ОЗНАЧАЕМОЕ/ОБОЗНАЧАЕМОЕ
(СОДЕРЖАНИЕ), THE CONCEPT THAT IS ELICITED IN THE MIND BY
THE SIGNIFIER
• THE SIGNIFIER DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SIGN UNTIL IT IS
INTERPRETED
CHARLES
SANDERS
PEIRCE
• THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE SIGN TO THE OBJECT IS MADE IN
THE MIND OF THE INTERPRETER AS A MENTAL TOOL THAT
PEIRCE CALLED THE INTERPRETANT (COGNITIVE REACTION ELICITED
IN THE MIND OF THE INTERPRETER)
• SEMIOSIS (THE PROCESS OF SIGN INTERPRETATION) IS AN
ITERATIVE (REPETITIVE) PROCESS INVOLVING MULTIPLE
INFERENCES.
• THE SIGNIFIER ELICITS IN THE MIND AN INTERPRETANT THAT
IS NOT THE FINAL SIGNIFIED OBJECT, BUT A MEDIATING
THOUGHT THAT PROMOTES UNDERSTANDING
CHARLES MORRIS
• FOR MORRIS, SEMIOTICS INVOLVES "GOAL-SEEKING BEHAVIOR
IN WHICH SIGNS EXERCISE CONTROL" (MORRIS 1971 [1938], P.
85 MORRIS, CHARLES. (FOUNDATIONS OF THE THEORY OF SIGNS )
• THREE SUBFIELDS OF SEMIOTICS:
• SEMANTICS STUDIES THE AFFILIATIONS BETWEEN THE WORLD
OF SIGNS AND THE WORLD OF THINGS
• SYNTACTICS OBSERVES HOW SIGNS RELATE TO OTHER SIGNS
• PRAGMATICS EXPLAINS THE EFFECTS OF SIGNS ON HUMAN
BEHAVIOR
LEV SEMENOVICH VYGOTSKY
• APPLIED THE INSTRUMENTAL NOTION OF SEMIOTICS TOWARD COGNITION AND
LEARNING
• IDENTIFIED THE PIVOTAL ROLE LANGUAGE PLAYS DURING THE EXERCISE OF
COMPLEX MENTAL FUNCTIONS
• ANALYZED THE ROLE OF SPEECH IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN
CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF LANGUAGE TO COMPLEX
THINKING IN HUMANS
TEXTOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF CULTURE R. BARTH,
O. SULEIMENOV
• BARTHES'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK, MYTHOLOGIES, CONTINUES TO HAVE AN
INFLUENCE ON CRITICAL THEORY IN THE EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
• IN MYTHOLOGIES, BARTHES DESCRIBES MYTH AS A WELL-FORMED,
SOPHISTICATED SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATION THAT SERVES THE IDEOLOGICAL
AIMS OF A DOMINANT CLASS.
• BARTHES CONCEIVED OF MYTH AS A SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED REALITY THAT
IS PASSED OFF AS NATURAL.
• THE ROLE OF THE MYTHOLOGIST IS TO IDENTIFY THE ARTIFICIALITY OF
THOSE SIGNS THAT DISGUISE THEIR HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL ORIGINS.
OLZHAS OMAROVICH
SULEIMENOV
• KAZAKH NATIONAL, BILINGUAL BUT PREDOMINANTLY RUSSOPHONE BY VIRTUE
OF EDUCATION AND CREATIVE PREFERENCE
• "I NOW BOLDLY DECLARE THAT MANY OBSCURE ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY OF
LITERATE PEOPLES CAN NOT BE EXPLAINED WITHOUT SOME KNOWLEDGE OF
THE HISTORY OF THE TURKS. I AM CONVINCED THAT AT SOME POINT THERE
WILL APPEAR A GENUINE, REALISTIC BOOK, 'THE TRUE HISTORY,' AND THAT
WE TOO WILL BE COMPLICIT IN ITS BIRTH. ONLY POETS CAN EXPLAIN THE
MEANING OF WORDS, CREATED BY THE ANCIENT FORGERS OF LANGUAGE.
KNOWING ONE'S NATIVE HISTORY IS THE ESSENTIAL CONDITION FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERNATIONALIST CONSCIOUSNESS"
AZ I IA. THE BOOK OF A WELLINTENTIONED READER
• FIRST HALF IS DEVOTED TO REREADING A CELEBRATED
LITERARY ARTIFACT OF MEDIEVAL RUSSIA, THE SONG OF IGOR'S
CAMPAIGN. BY CLAIMING TO HAVE UNCOVERED TURKIC LEXICAL
AND NARRATIVE ELEMENTS IN THE MOST REVERED OF EARLY
RUSSIAN TEXTS, SULEIMENOV SEEKS TO REWRITE THE EARLY
HISTORY OF THE RUSSO-TURKIC ENCOUNTER FROM A TURKIC
PERSPECTIVE
• AZ I IA - MIGHT BE TRANSLATED "I AND I"
• "THE IGOR TALE NEEDS TO BE READ NOT BY A COLLECTIVE OF
WE'S (SLAVIST, TURKOLOGIST, HISTORIAN, POET), BUT BY A
COLLECTIVE OF I'S [КОЛЛЕКТИВНОЕ Я]. THE SAME PERSONS, BUT
UNITED WITHIN ONE INDIVIDUAL [ТЕ ЖЕ ПЕРСОНАЖИ, НО
ОБЪЕДИНЕННЫЕ В ОДНОЙ ЛИЧНОСТИ] ." SULEIMENOV, AZ I IA,
Р.8
• КОЧУЮ ПО ЧЁРНО-БЕЛОМУ СВЕТУ.
МНЕ ДОМ ДВУХЭТАЖНЫЙ ПОСТРОИТЬ СОВЕТУЮТ,
А Я, КАК УДАСТСЯ КАКАЯ ОКАЗИЯ,
МОТАЮСЬ ПО АФРИКАМ, ФРАНЦИЯМ, АЗИЯМ.
В НЬЮ-ЙОРКЕ С ДАСТАНАМИ ВЫСТУПАЮ,
В АЛЕППЕ АРАБАМ ГЛАЗА ОТКРЫВАЮ,
ВЕРНУСЬ, И В КАРМАНЕ ОПЯТЬ — НИ КОПЬЯ;
КОПЬЁ ЗАВЕДЁТСЯ — ОПЯТЬ НА КОНЯ!
(АЙНАЛАЙН, 1964)
NEXT
• NOMADS’ CULTURE OF KAZAKHSTAN.
• CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE PROTO-TURKIC PEOPLE
PLAN
- STRUCTURALISM AND SEMIOTICS IN CULTURAL STUDIES.
SEMIOTIC CONCEPTS OF CULTURE F. SAUSSURE, CHARLES
SANDERS PEIRCE, CHARLES MORRIS, L. S. VYGOTSKY
- TEXTOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF CULTURE R. BARTH, O.
SULEIMENOV
- THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF CULTURE
• SEMIOTICS OF CULTURE IS A RESEARCH FIELD WITHIN SEMIOTICS THAT
ATTEMPTS TO DEFINE CULTURE FROM SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE AND AS A
TYPE OF HUMAN SYMBOLIC ACTIVITY. HERE CULTURE IS UNDERSTOOD AS A
SYSTEM OF SYMBOLS OR MEANINGFUL SIGNS.
• ANATOMY OF CULTURE STUDIES ISSUES OF THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF
CULTURAL SYSTEMS (SPACE OF CULTURE, DIMENSIONS OF CULTURE, FORMS
OF CULTURE ….)
STRUCTURALISM AND SEMIOTICS IN CULTURAL STUDIES.
SEMIOTIC CONCEPTS OF CULTURE F. SAUSSURE,
CH.S. PEIRCE, CH. MORRIS
• LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL SEMIOTICS INVESTIGATES SIGN
SYSTEMS AND THE MODES OF REPRESENTATION THAT HUMANS
USE TO CONVEY FEELINGS, THOUGHTS, IDEAS, AND IDEOLOGIES
• UMBERTO ECO "STUDYING EVERYTHING WHICH CAN BE USED IN
ORDER TO LIE"
(A THEORY OF SEMIOTICS. 1976, P.
7)
TRADITIONS IN MODERN SEMIOTIC THEORY:
• A EUROPEAN TRADITION - FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE . HE
SOUGHT TO EXPLAIN HOW ALL ELEMENTS OF A LANGUAGE ARE
TAKEN AS COMPONENTS OF A LARGER SYSTEM OF LANGUAGE IN
USE. THIS LED TO A FORMAL DISCIPLINE THAT HE CALLED
SEMIOLOGY.
• AMERICAN TRADITION - CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE. HIS
INTEREST IN LOGICAL REASONING LED HIM TO INVESTIGATE
DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF SIGNS AND THE MANNER BY WHICH
HUMANS EXTRACT MEANING FROM THEM.
FERDINAND DE
SAUSSURE -
STRUCTURALIST SCHOOL
• A STRUCTURALIST LOOKS AT THE UNITS OF A SYSTEM AND THE
RULES OF LOGIC THAT ARE APPLIED TO THE SYSTEM, WITHOUT
REGARD TO ANY SPECIFIC CONTENT.
• THE UNITS OF HUMAN LANGUAGE COMPRISE A LIMITED SET OF
SOUNDS CALLED PHONEMES, AND THESE COMPRISE AN UNLIMITED SET
OF WORDS AND SENTENCES, WHICH ARE PUT TOGETHER ACCORDING TO
A SET OF SIMPLE RULES CALLED GRAMMAR.
• FROM SIMPLE UNITS HUMANS DERIVE MORE COMPLEX UNITS THAT ARE
APPLIED TO NEW RULES TO FORM MORE COMPLEX STRUCTURES
FERDINAND DE
SAUSSURE
• THE SMALLEST UNIT OF ANALYSIS IS THE SIGN, MADE UP OF
A SIGNIFIER (ОЗНАЧАЮЩИЙ/ОБОЗНАЧАЮЩЕЕ (ЗВУЧАНИЕ, НАПИСАНИЕ) OR
SENSORY PATTERN AND A SIGNIFIED (ОЗНАЧАЕМОЕ/ОБОЗНАЧАЕМОЕ
(СОДЕРЖАНИЕ), THE CONCEPT THAT IS ELICITED IN THE MIND BY
THE SIGNIFIER
• THE SIGNIFIER DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SIGN UNTIL IT IS
INTERPRETED
CHARLES
SANDERS
PEIRCE
• THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE SIGN TO THE OBJECT IS MADE IN
THE MIND OF THE INTERPRETER AS A MENTAL TOOL THAT
PEIRCE CALLED THE INTERPRETANT (COGNITIVE REACTION ELICITED
IN THE MIND OF THE INTERPRETER)
• SEMIOSIS (THE PROCESS OF SIGN INTERPRETATION) IS AN
ITERATIVE (REPETITIVE) PROCESS INVOLVING MULTIPLE
INFERENCES.
• THE SIGNIFIER ELICITS IN THE MIND AN INTERPRETANT THAT
IS NOT THE FINAL SIGNIFIED OBJECT, BUT A MEDIATING
THOUGHT THAT PROMOTES UNDERSTANDING
CHARLES MORRIS
• FOR MORRIS, SEMIOTICS INVOLVES "GOAL-SEEKING BEHAVIOR
IN WHICH SIGNS EXERCISE CONTROL" (MORRIS 1971 [1938], P.
85 MORRIS, CHARLES. (FOUNDATIONS OF THE THEORY OF SIGNS )
• THREE SUBFIELDS OF SEMIOTICS:
• SEMANTICS STUDIES THE AFFILIATIONS BETWEEN THE WORLD
OF SIGNS AND THE WORLD OF THINGS
• SYNTACTICS OBSERVES HOW SIGNS RELATE TO OTHER SIGNS
• PRAGMATICS EXPLAINS THE EFFECTS OF SIGNS ON HUMAN
BEHAVIOR
LEV SEMENOVICH VYGOTSKY
• APPLIED THE INSTRUMENTAL NOTION OF SEMIOTICS TOWARD COGNITION AND
LEARNING
• IDENTIFIED THE PIVOTAL ROLE LANGUAGE PLAYS DURING THE EXERCISE OF
COMPLEX MENTAL FUNCTIONS
• ANALYZED THE ROLE OF SPEECH IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN
CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF LANGUAGE TO COMPLEX
THINKING IN HUMANS
TEXTOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF CULTURE R. BARTH,
O. SULEIMENOV
• BARTHES'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK, MYTHOLOGIES, CONTINUES TO HAVE AN
INFLUENCE ON CRITICAL THEORY IN THE EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
• IN MYTHOLOGIES, BARTHES DESCRIBES MYTH AS A WELL-FORMED,
SOPHISTICATED SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATION THAT SERVES THE IDEOLOGICAL
AIMS OF A DOMINANT CLASS.
• BARTHES CONCEIVED OF MYTH AS A SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED REALITY THAT
IS PASSED OFF AS NATURAL.
• THE ROLE OF THE MYTHOLOGIST IS TO IDENTIFY THE ARTIFICIALITY OF
THOSE SIGNS THAT DISGUISE THEIR HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL ORIGINS.
OLZHAS OMAROVICH
SULEIMENOV
• KAZAKH NATIONAL, BILINGUAL BUT PREDOMINANTLY RUSSOPHONE BY VIRTUE
OF EDUCATION AND CREATIVE PREFERENCE
• "I NOW BOLDLY DECLARE THAT MANY OBSCURE ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY OF
LITERATE PEOPLES CAN NOT BE EXPLAINED WITHOUT SOME KNOWLEDGE OF
THE HISTORY OF THE TURKS. I AM CONVINCED THAT AT SOME POINT THERE
WILL APPEAR A GENUINE, REALISTIC BOOK, 'THE TRUE HISTORY,' AND THAT
WE TOO WILL BE COMPLICIT IN ITS BIRTH. ONLY POETS CAN EXPLAIN THE
MEANING OF WORDS, CREATED BY THE ANCIENT FORGERS OF LANGUAGE.
KNOWING ONE'S NATIVE HISTORY IS THE ESSENTIAL CONDITION FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERNATIONALIST CONSCIOUSNESS"
AZ I IA. THE BOOK OF A WELLINTENTIONED READER
• FIRST HALF IS DEVOTED TO REREADING A CELEBRATED
LITERARY ARTIFACT OF MEDIEVAL RUSSIA, THE SONG OF IGOR'S
CAMPAIGN. BY CLAIMING TO HAVE UNCOVERED TURKIC LEXICAL
AND NARRATIVE ELEMENTS IN THE MOST REVERED OF EARLY
RUSSIAN TEXTS, SULEIMENOV SEEKS TO REWRITE THE EARLY
HISTORY OF THE RUSSO-TURKIC ENCOUNTER FROM A TURKIC
PERSPECTIVE
• AZ I IA - MIGHT BE TRANSLATED "I AND I"
• "THE IGOR TALE NEEDS TO BE READ NOT BY A COLLECTIVE OF
WE'S (SLAVIST, TURKOLOGIST, HISTORIAN, POET), BUT BY A
COLLECTIVE OF I'S [КОЛЛЕКТИВНОЕ Я]. THE SAME PERSONS, BUT
UNITED WITHIN ONE INDIVIDUAL [ТЕ ЖЕ ПЕРСОНАЖИ, НО
ОБЪЕДИНЕННЫЕ В ОДНОЙ ЛИЧНОСТИ] ." SULEIMENOV, AZ I IA,
Р.8
• КОЧУЮ ПО ЧЁРНО-БЕЛОМУ СВЕТУ.
МНЕ ДОМ ДВУХЭТАЖНЫЙ ПОСТРОИТЬ СОВЕТУЮТ,
А Я, КАК УДАСТСЯ КАКАЯ ОКАЗИЯ,
МОТАЮСЬ ПО АФРИКАМ, ФРАНЦИЯМ, АЗИЯМ.
В НЬЮ-ЙОРКЕ С ДАСТАНАМИ ВЫСТУПАЮ,
В АЛЕППЕ АРАБАМ ГЛАЗА ОТКРЫВАЮ,
ВЕРНУСЬ, И В КАРМАНЕ ОПЯТЬ — НИ КОПЬЯ;
КОПЬЁ ЗАВЕДЁТСЯ — ОПЯТЬ НА КОНЯ!
(АЙНАЛАЙН, 1964)
THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF
CULTURE
• THREE DIMENSIONS OF CULTURAL SPACE ACCORDING TO THE MAIN TYPES OF
MEANINGS
• TYPES OF MEANING: 1) KNOWLEDGE, 2) VALUES, 3) REGULATIVES
• THEY CORRESPOND TO THREE INTERSECTING "COORDINATE AXES": 1)
"COGNITIVE", 2) "VALUE", 3) "REGULATORY".
X-Y SPIRITUAL CULTURE
X-Z TECHNOLOGICAL CULTURE
Y-Z SOCIAL CULTURE
NEXT
• NOMADS’ CULTURE OF KAZAKHSTAN.
• CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE PROTO-TURKIC PEOPLE
THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF
CULTURE
• THREE DIMENSIONS OF CULTURAL SPACE ACCORDING TO THE MAIN TYPES OF
MEANINGS
• TYPES OF MEANING: 1) KNOWLEDGE, 2) VALUES, 3) REGULATIVES
• THEY CORRESPOND TO THREE INTERSECTING "COORDINATE AXES": 1)
"COGNITIVE", 2) "VALUE", 3) "REGULATORY".
X-Y SPIRITUAL CULTURE
X-Z TECHNOLOGICAL CULTURE
Y-Z SOCIAL CULTURE