Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2022
Abstract
The Mongolian nomads' way of life and perception of the outside world is directly reflected in their thinking and use of language. In the following article, the author applies the ethnolinguistic approach to the study of the Mongolian language based on the ethnography of communication (Dell Hymes, 1962), which allows the communication behaviour of nomads to be revealed.
The given examples of ideophones, idioms, phrases, sayings, and proverbs relate to cattle breeding, that is the essence of nomadic life, and reveal the way of their metaphorical expression.