Ethno-linguistic peculiarities of semantic perception of language competence of Tatar bilingual children

Abstract

In this article the authors study the phenomenon of interaction between the two systems in the linguistic consciousness of a bilingual. These systems encode the same items and phenomena of social reality. Moreover, they describe the mechanism for the implementation of language interference in the situation of artificial bilingualism, taking into account a number of linguistic and extralinguistic factors. As an example, the researchers take the ethnolinguistic space of Tatarstan and Tyumen Region, because the Tatars are the indigenous people in these areas. The phenomenon of mass regional bilingualism among the Tatar population is considered in the boundaries of psycholinguistic and cognitive approaches. The paper contributes to the examination of such problems as cross-cultural communication, Russian as a foreign language, comparative linguistics with a glance to the peculiarities of national world-view. This may promote such issues as relation between language and thought, language and culture and interaction between sensory and rational components in the categorization of the world. © IDOSI Publications, 2013.