FACTOR OF “LINGUAL PERSONALITY” AND LINGUISTIC SKILLS OF MAHMUD KASHGARY

Abstract

The person who can conduct linguistic research or write high level scientific-literary texts in a certain language can be called as “lingual personality”. The high intellectual level of lingual personality and “Language picture of the World” in his mind result in creating a high level text or research work. In this article, some opinions are stated about language, factor of lingual personality, its types and levels, verbal-semantic level, cognitive level, pragmatic level, lingual personality of the prominent linguist – famous specialist in Turkic philology Mahmud Kashgary, his lingual individuality, his education, his process of researching and the process of writing the “Divan”."DivanuLugat-it Turk" is a magnificent monument of Turkic culture, language, literature, folklore and mentality of the Turkic peoples of Eurasia in 11th century. It is also a monument of high knowledge, patriotism and skill of the great Turkic scientist and thinker Mahmud Kashgary, who was the most famous linguistic personality among the Turks of his time.