Abstract
Abstract The relevance of the study is due to the increased interest of researchers in the study of the chronotope category in recent decades, and the lack of a unified approach to the analysis of the chronotope in the scientific community. The purpose of the article is to study the value aspects of space-time in the author’s mind through the study of the linguistic representation of the chronotope in Kazakh fiction and journalistic prose. To achieve the goal, the article uses a structural, biographical, hermeneutical, and comparative method. The article studies the spatiotemporal organization of literary texts of Kazakh writers: “Diary of a trip to Issyk-Kul” by Sh.Sh. Ualikhanov, “Tuyuk su” by G.K. Belger,” and “The tale of a century-old steppe man” by B.T. Alimzhanov. Based on the study of literary texts, using the indicated methodology, the key chronotopes for each selected work are identified. It has been established that the category of space-time in all the studied works is characterized by complexity, diversity, and multidimensionality. The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that the method of analysis of the chronotope category presented in the article can be applied in the study of the chronotope in literary texts.