Kyrgyz and English Nomination of Children

Research relevance: this article examines the units of children nominations in the linguistic picture of Kyrgyz people world. The nominations of the concept child, in the language indicating certain aspects of this concept, reflect its real characteristics in different directions. Research objectives: study of children Kyrgyz and English nominations. Research materials and methods: in this work authors used methods based on the analysis of linguistic representations of the concept of a child and the ways of organizing the identified nominations of children into groups. Research results: certain nominations contain indications of the social characteristics in the child’s image, including the child’s status in the family and the child’s belonging to social institutions, in addition, nominations describing the birth conditions, life and family education received by the child were highlighted. Conclusions: the concept under study has relevant features corresponding to two different linguocultures.