Abstract:

Annotation. In the light of the oral theory of Perry-Lord, it is the first time to systematically investigate the poetic technique of Kazakh zhyrau of the XV-XVIII centuries, the oral-stylistic methods developed by multifaceted practices of akyns and zhyrau, their images, motives, ideas, the structure of the oral text; analysis of semantics and structures at different levels of the oral text as a form; sound repetitions and primary transformations in the formulaic system; elements of sound-distributing technique in the Kazakh folklore, structural analysis - all together, as the oral audio system for texts structuring. The methodology used in the works of the most-known Kazakh scholars is based on the works of M. Perry and A.B. Lord, the so-called oral theory of Perry-Lord or Oral Tradition. The auditory-oral tradition of the Kazakh nomads, according to the philosopher A. Kodar, is a “total oral discourse” or verbal and musical art that replaced many other arts known to the settled peoples of Europe and Asia in the environment of traditional nomadic life.

Keywords: genesis, oral theory (Oral Tradition), zhyrau, epic, formula, function, Turkic, structural analysis of a text.