PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PORTRAIT OF THE KALMYKS: PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
The article analyses the features of the character of the Kalmyks, their attitude to other people, to themselves, to other objects. The basis of the description was the lexical means selected by the method of continuous sampling from lexicographical sources of the Kalmyk language. The authors analyzed various lexical means of the Kalmyk language which denote such features as endurance, inner fortitude, courage, stress resistance, bravery, pride, self-criticism, modesty, vanity, etc. The article proves that endurance, perseverance, persistence, highlighted by psychologists as the main national-psychological features of Kalmyks are characterized by the density of lexical-semantic designation.