Scientific activity
The research work of the Department of Kazakh Linguistics covers a comprehensive area titled “The Formation and Development of the Kazakh Literary Language, Its Study, and Culture of Use.” Within this framework, the department’s faculty members carry out systematic research in the fields of Kazakh grammar, language history, language culture, functional styles and their communicative features, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, linguoculturology, psycholinguistics, and current issues of teaching the Kazakh language.
The department regularly holds a scientific seminar on topical issues of Kazakh linguistics. There is also a circle of students (Linguists of the XXI century) (head: Ph.D., associate professor Omirbekova Zh.K.).
The chair organizes conferences, symposia, congresses at the national and international level.
Annually, the traditional international theoretical and theoretical conference "Akhmet Baitursynov's Readings", devoted to the scientific founder of Kazakh linguistics, to the educator, to the figure Alash Akhmet Baitursynuly, is conducted by direct participation and organization of the members of the department. In addition to Russian scientists, well-known scientists from Turkey, Germany, Russia, intellectuals involved in Akhmetology, residents of Astana, students, doctoral students and undergraduates take part in the conference.
| Indicators |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
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| 1 |
Total number of publications: including ThomsonReuters and Scopus |
4 | 6 | 6 |
| 2 | The share of Faculty members that published articles in journals not entered into ThomsonReuters and Scopus ( %) | 81 | 85 | 91 |
| 3 | Scientific publications in a series of conferences held in Kazakhstan: | 52 | 56 | 40 |
| 4 | Number of scientific events held by the department: | 9 | 13 | 11 |
| 5 |
Total number of publications of students: including students: |
83 | 83 | 84 |
| 6 |
The total number of students who won republican and international competitions of scientific projects:
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24 | 23 | 25 |
| 7 | Number of concluded agreements on international scientific and technical cooperation with universities and research centers | 1 | 1 | 1 |
For 2019, the share of teaching staff participating in funded fundamental and applied and educational projects is 53% of the total.
In 2020, Sarseke Gulnar Adebietkyzy participated in the competition and became a visiting scholar, specialist in linguistics at the University of Maryland (USA).
The department submitted 3 applications for participation in the competition for grant funding of scientific and (or) scientific and technical projects. 2 applications for the competition for 2020-2022 (27 months):
1. Historical dictionary of the Kazakh language (Scientific adviser: Kenzhalin K.K.);
2. Expansion of the information and cultural space of the state language in a multilingual environment. (Supervisor: Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor Sarekenova K.K.);
1 application for the competition for 2021-2023:
1. New directions of Kazakh lexicography: theoretical and practical problems of compiling modern multilingual dictionaries (Supervisor: Doctor of Philology, Professor G. Sagidolda).
Currently, scholars of the department are implementing nine scientific projects funded by state grants:
- “An Interdisciplinary Study of Endangered Turkic Languages: The Khoton Ethnic Group in Mongolia” – Project leader: Prof. Zh.A. Zhakupov;
- “Linguistic Manifestations of the Ethnocultural Consciousness of Kazakh Youth” – Project leader: Assoc. Prof. M.K. Akhmetova;
- “Innovative Technologies for Value-Oriented Teaching of the Kazakh Language and Literature” – Project leader: Prof. Sh. Kapantaiqyzy;
- “Digital Humanities: Creating a Corpus of Academic Kazakh Language” – Project leader: Prof. G. Sarseke;
- “Compilation of Kazakh Names into a Digital Platform and Their Adaptation to New Technologies” – Project leader: Prof. B. Abduäliuly;
- “Ethnocultural Codes and Cognitive Structures of the ‘Nature – Human – Life’ Triad in Linguistic Representation (A Comparative Analysis of Everyday Vocabulary in Kazakh and Other Turkic Languages)” – Project leader: Prof. G. Sagidolda;
- “Corpus of Folklore Texts: Linguistic and IT Solutions in the Digitization of the Kazakh Language” – Project leader: Prof. K. Sarekinova.
In addition, under the “Young Scientist” project, two young researchers are conducting grant-funded studies:
- D. Baltabay – Etymological Thesaurus Dictionary of the Work “Shezhire-i-Terakname”;
- S. Zhanzhigitov – A Pedagogical Model for Developing the Linguo-Conflictological Competence of Lawyers (the project is being implemented within the framework of the “Listening State” concept).
All faculty members of the department actively participate in research projects, with 100% involvement in scientific work.
The research results of the department’s scholars are regularly published in journals indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and other international bibliometric databases. In 2024, nine articles authored by the department’s faculty were published in Scopus-indexed journals.
Furthermore, six doctoral students of the department successfully defended their dissertations in 2024, and eleven more are expected to do so in 2025. Today, these graduates are successfully working in higher education institutions and research centers across the country.
