Interdisciplinary approach to studying written nomadic sources in the context of modern historiology

Ibrayeva A. Temirkhanova A. Kartova Z. Sadykov T. Abuov N. Pleshakov A.
December 2021 Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Heritage Science
2021 #9 Issue 1

This article uses an interdisciplinary approach to analyze textual sources from nomadic civilization. Linguistic analysis has been increasingly used due to the emergence of a huge array of autochthonous and authentic written sources. It is impossible to extract the necessary historical information from those sources without using a new research method. This study aims to apply discourse analysis to medieval textual sources called edicts published in 1400–1635 by the leaders of the Central Asian states. This approach is expected to enable a detailed study of the structure of edicts, as well as speech patterns and terms used in the text. The results of the study revealed the structure of the examined edicts, as well as socio-cultural, economic, and communicative features of the nomadic society. First, the discourse repertoire of Edicts from Sygnak is rather unique, as evidenced by comparative analysis of patents from the cities of Sygnak, Sayram and Turkestan located in the Syr Darya basin. Second, edicts in this study reflect the result of the mutual influence of sedentary and mobile lifeways. Third, the arguments behind certain speech patterns used in the examined edicts emerged under the influence of Turkic traditions.

Discourse analysis , Document structure , Edicts , Nomadic civilization , Oral historiology

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Department of History of Kazakhstan and Socio-Humanitarian Disciplines, M. Kozybaev North Kazakhstan University, Pushkin Street, 86, Petropavlovsk, 1500000, Kazakhstan
Department of History of Kazakhstan, L. Gumilyov, Eurasian National University, Pushkin Street, 11, Nur-Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan

Department of History of Kazakhstan and Socio-Humanitarian Disciplines
Department of History of Kazakhstan

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