FEATURES OF THE NOMINATION OF LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL INFORMATION IN THE WEDDING PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF KARACHAI AND BALKARS

In Russian linguistics in recent decades, special attention is paid to the study of problems associated with such concepts as ethnicity, language and culture. Culture appears as an indicator of the diversity of the world, the understanding of which depends on an adequate understanding of the information received by ethnic groups in the process of mastering the surrounding reality and its conceptualization. In this context, it is interesting to study cultural phenomena that reflect the specifics of the worldview, the worldview of native speakers, one of which is the wedding ceremony, which is a cultural universal, formed in General terms due to intensive interethnic interaction, and one of the most important components of ethnic language consciousness. The article is devoted to the study of ethno - and linguo-cultural significance of language means representing the wedding ceremony of Karachai and Balkar people. The analysis of empirical material allowed to allocate several thematic groups reflecting various stages of a wedding ceremony. The results of the associative experiment, as well as lexical-phraseological and paremiological means extracted by the continuous sampling method from lexicographic sources served as the material for the study.