Abstract
It comes as no surprise that study of folklore language is regarded as arelevant issue.As the phenomenon of national cognition is revealed by identifying the semantics of the language. And in the linguistic study, researching the genre features of folklore has the results similar to interdisciplinary research. Folklore genres are studied sufficientlyin the literary and folkloric studies, in both domestic philology and foreign philology. The linguistic representation of time and space in Kazakh fairy tales and epic poems are considered in the given article. The characteristic features of the linguistic representation of time and space in Kazakh fairy tales and epic poems are analyzed.Moreover, relevant examples are offered as evidence. The relevance of the study is determined by great interest of linguistic science to the issues of national and cultural specificity of folk texts, which is caused by peculiarities of historical development, beliefs, traditions and customs of native people.