Abstract
Nonverbal means are elements of the national vocabulary which represent the nation’s consciousness in language, which are actively used in belletristic texts. Nonverbal elements are distinct in world languages both by their structure and meaning. This feature is one of the main language factors which create difficulties for translators while they interpret belletristic texts. For instance, the majority of lacunae (untranslated parts of text) in the Russian variant of the epic novel "Abai Zholy" (The Path of Abai) are the nonverbal elements. The purpose of the study is to assess the level of communicative recognition of the Kazakh people by considering how communication aids are coded in the language, as well as to determine the similarities and differences of nonverbal components in the Kazakh and Russian languages from the point of view of lexicology, grammar, pragmatics and stylistics. In the course of the research, comparative analysis of translations, grammatical analysis of nonverbal means, lexical-semantic analysis and cognitive analysis methods were used. As a result of the research, it was found that there are more language units and grammatical structures expressing the meaning of "күлу" (to laugh) in the Kazakh language than in the Russian language. In the translation of this kinema, it was found that words with the root "смех" in the Russian language was actively used, and due to the lexical-grammatical features of languages, linguistic and cultural factors, the accuracy, expressiveness and semantic features of the nonverbal components in the translated text were not fully preserved. The relevance of the research can be seen from the fact that the linguistic representation of nonverbal actions in M. Auezov's epic novel "Abai Zholy" and its linguistic value in the translated text are considered for the first time on the basis of the anthropocentric paradigm and in the interlinguistic aspect.