AP25795485 Project Leader: Dautkulova A.K.

AP25795485 The linguocognitive nature of hydronyms in the West Kazakhstan onomastic space

Project implementation period: 2025–2027

Project Leader: Dautkulova A.K.

Project Objective - Determination of the location of indigenous hydronyms in the onomastic space of western Kazakhstan on the basis of folk names, restoration, modernization, disclosure of linguistic and cognitive character. Defining their role in the ethnological, national and cultural space.

To achieve the goal of the project, the following main tasks were set:

• Decoding of national, cultural, and ethnolinguistic codes in macro and micro-hydronyms of Western Kazakhstan;

• Promotion of the general public by uploading information on the linguocognitive nature of hydronyms of Western Kazakhstan to the open Wikipedia encyclopedia;

• Determination of the frequency of hydronyms of Western Kazakhstan within the framework of a research project;

• To conduct a comparative study of local hydronyms and new hydronyms on a geographical map;

• Departure to regional expeditions to create an information and reference base on hydronyms;

• Provide information about the hydronyms of Western Kazakhstan in a QR code and an electronic version to the regional office of Onomastics;

• The study of national and cultural features of cognitive, ethnolinguistic, linguocultural, semiotic, perceptual, psychopathological, precedent properties of hydronyms in the West Kazakhstan onomastic space;

• Collection of information related to the early course of the hydronyms of Western Kazakhstan for the prevention of the consequences of natural disasters, floods using methods of statistical linguistics and cognitive analysis.