Raushaniya Sagdatzyanovna Nurmuhametova,
Kazan Federal University,
2 Tatarstan Str., Kazan, 420021, Russia,
rsagadat@yandex.ru.
Over the last few years, the main focus of linguistic research has been on the vocabulary that reflects cultural and ethnic characteristic features of nations, their understanding of the world. It is the feature of every language and can expand the worldview of people and get them interested in the culture of their ethnos. The following paper is dedicated to the research on ethnocultural vocabulary, the most important part of the language vocabulary. It touches upon the lexical units of material culture of the Tatar language, such as the names of food, clothes and living spaces. It gives a brief review of lexical- thematic sets, and describes some of the peculiarities of the studied phenomena. The object names of material culture reflect the life experience of the people. By studying such culturally marked vocabulary we can revive some of the forgotten traditions and point out common and specific elements in various ethnic cultures.
Key words: Tatar language, ethnocultural vocabulary, material culture vocabulary, lexicothematic set.