The Concept of Mugham in the Azerbaijani Language

Abstract

In this article music, one of the unique pieces has been studied as the means of expression of national values and folk thought in the conceptual system. Talking about Azerbaijani culture and Azerbaijani music, “mugham” that has a matchless importance and value mass is especially highlighted. Mugham’s being accepted as a concept and being studied is one of the main objectives of conceptual linguistics. However, though up to the contemporary period, mugham has been studied in terms of structure and internal consistency and from philosophical, national and some several other aspects in the countries such as Azerbaijan, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Arabia, Germany and Iran, it still hasn’t been investigated as a linguistic fact. From this point of view, mugham has been approached in a conceptual way in our research, its all-verbal base has been explained as a means of expression of Azerbaijani thinking. That is to say, mugham has been explored as a part of cultural thinking and all the internal structure of a mugham dastgāh has been interpreted from lexical and semantic aspects. It is worth pointing out that mugham has been involved in the research in a broad sense in this article. And each of the mugham dastgāhs is a topic of separate studies.