THE CONCEPT OF BEAUTY What is concept

THE CONCEPT OF BEAUTY

What is concept? Сoncept can be understood as a mental formation, which possesses a specific cultural value, and represents elements of the world for people in the course of reflection and communication (Neroznak, 2008) The study of concepts is valuable because it helps us to identify the culturally specific world view of a certain lingual-cultural community. It also allows us to understand the word (as a lexical unit) in the context of culture, cognition, and communication.

THE CONCEPT OF BEAUTY Beauty” is one of the key concepts in a culture, which has an existential significance both for an individual person and for a lingual-cultural community. The concept "beauty" can be found in every ethnic culture, its existence is universal.

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In England the term ‘beauty’ can be defined as: 1) the combination of qualities that give pleasure and joy to the senses (vision and hearing) and mind; 3) as an especially good feature; 2) as a set of qualities glorifying the soul; 5) something that is very good and impressive 4) as an elegant, superb quality.

In Kazakh language the term ‘beauty’ can be defined as: Келбеттiлiк, өңдiлiк, ажарлылық. Қыз сұлулығына жанары арбалып қалды (Т. Нұртазин). Әсемдiк, әдiмiлiк. Бұл қоныс Оразға табиғат сұлулығымен ыстық (Арыстанов). Алтын айдар, жiбек шашты [шоқ белбеу] - қиссадастандардағы сұлулық бейнесi. Алтын асықтай әдемi, сүйкiмдi. Қыз деген сұлулық символы (Канахин).

Metaphors used to identify beauty English: As fair as a lily-beautiful as a flower lily; as graceful as a swan, pretty as a picture, Kazakh: қырдың қызыл түлкісіндей, еліктің лағындай, (as) beautiful as a Greek- beautiful as Greek Goddesses, кер маралдай керілу, a sunset over the sparkling ocean, қырмызыдай ажарлы, spring flower blossoming after the rain, ақ маралдай әдемі; You are sunshine. A light in a sea of darkness қордың қызындай,

Metaphors for women`s face These two languages has different associations with the concept beauty. Englishmen prefer green eyes as a beautiful, whereas Kazakh people think that black and brown eyes are beautiful. For example: velvet dark eyes, inky eyes, eyes like a blue sky, like sapphire and so on, in Kazakh language қарақаттай көз, жәудір көз, күлім көз, көген көз, қой көз, қоңырқай көз, тұнық, мөлдір көз, мойылдай көз, тұнжыр көз, нәркес көз. They have preferences in the forms of eyes too like тостағандай жанары, елегізеген еліктің жанарындай, қос жұлдыздай қос жанары, тана көз, бота көз, бадана көз, айна көз,

Among English the stereotypical image of beauty is connected with antique idols, natural elements and flowers, Kazakhs ideal beauty are folklore characters like Kyz Zhibek, Bayan Sulu etc, flowers, some birds.

In both languages the beauty of sound is characterized with the sound of a bird, soughing of water, sounds of music.

In Kazakh the sign of a beauty and health is long and rich hair. They appreciate long lock of hair, F. ex: жібектей майда шаш, сүмбіледей қара шаш, қолаң жібек шаш, толқынды қою қара шаш, білектей қос бұрым, тізесіне төгілген білектей. IN English brown hair is like a chocolate river. when straight, the fountain goes straight down the river. when curly, its going down hills and over rocks.

In both cultures people have a fear of ugliness, but tne number of negative lexemes are less than of positive: Kazakh: жаман түйенің жабуындай, бетінің кіріне бес ит тойғандай, жүнін жұлған тырнадай, мойны ырғайдай, биті торғайдай, инеліктей бұралған, тайлақ түйедей тарпаңдау, сиырша тұру, сөзі түйеден түскендей, аюдай қорбаңдау, даңды судай тасқызды т. б. In English: As dry as a mummy, as fat as a pig, as limp as a glove, bandy as a bandicoot, done up like a dog’s dinner, or dressed up like a dog’s dinner

HERE ARE PROVERBS IN TWO LANGUAGES: 1. Сұлу сұлу емес, сүйген сұлу. 2. Жаны сұлудың, тәні сұлу. 3. Сұлулық адамның жүзінде емес, жүрегінде болады. 4. Әсіре сұлу тез оңар. Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is only skin deep. Beauty. . . when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.

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Conclusion In the future, when the concept of beauty has been forcefully corrected, and everything else too that humanity has managed to twist through its spiritual blindness, Earth will once again be inhabited by beautiful humans only, in the most complete meaning of the word. All of life will once again be beautiful; it will be as marvelous and as pretty as it once was in the beginning. The way it should have stayed.