World Applied Sciences Journal 27 (Education, Law, Economics, Language and Communication): 141-145, 2013 ISSN 1818-4952 © IDOSI Publications, 2013 DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2013.27.elelc.29 Corresponding Author: Karabulatova, Kazan Federal University, Tatarstan street, 2, 420021, Kazan, Russia. 141 Ethno-Linguistic Peculiarities of Semantic Perception of Language Competence of Tatar Bilingual Children Irina Sovetovna Karabulatova, Zinaida Vasilyevna Polivara and Radif Rifkatovich Zamaletdinov 1 2 1 Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia 1 Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia 2 Abstract: In this article the authors study the phenomenon of interaction between the two systems in the linguistic consciousness of a bilingual. These systems encode the same items and phenomena of social reality. Moreover, they describe the mechanism for the implementation of language interference in the situation of artificial bilingualism, taking into account a number of linguistic and extralinguistic factors. As an example, the researchers take the ethnolinguistic space of Tatarstan and Tyumen Region, because the Tatars are the indigenous people in these areas. The phenomenon of mass regional bilingualism among the Tatar population is considered in the boundaries of psycholinguistic and cognitive approaches. The paper contributes to the examination of such problems as cross-cultural communication, Russian as a foreign language, comparative linguistics with a glance to the peculiarities of national world-view. This may promote such issues as relation between language and thought, language and culture and interaction between sensory and rational components in the categorization of the world. Key words: Ethno-psycholinguistic norm Bilingualism Linguistic competence Association reactions Linguistic culturology INTRODUCTIONS where the intermediate link is the Russian-speaking The parallel existence of two languages and, in intercultural communication between such non-sister particular, Russian-Tatar bilingualism is a topical question languages, as the Tatar // the Russian and the Kazakh // in the conditions of polyethnic linguistic fields of the Russian. The result of such efficient evolutionary Tatarstan and Tyumen Region. The advantage of the development of different types of national language Tatar language in the situation of bilingualism is in the personalities become a Eurasian language personality, fact that it is studied first in these regions because the inside of whose there is a constant peaceful dialogue of Tatars are the indigenous people there. The long-term Eastern and Western cultures” [1: 857]. This process functioning of the Tatar and Russian languages reflects covers many different kinds of activity and operations the history of Russian statehood, the replacement of the with data. That is why the question of how language “Turkic-Tatar” vector by the “Slavic-Russian” one in influences cognition at large becomes topical. Besides, it using language as a means of interethnic communication is necessary to study interiorized language, language as and reflects itself in polycommunicative and a cognitive tool and ways of representing knowledge and ethnocognitive activity. outward objects in consciousness and also mechanisms That is why researchers speak about the variability of and ways of processing this knowledge. Turkic language personality which is realized in the vector The term “ethnolinguistics” (ethnosemantics, from Turkic Russian-speaking personality to Russian anthropolinguistics) was introduced due to the Turkic-speaking personality: “A mutative character of the research of American scientists F. Boas and E. Sapir. evolutional development of the languages-contactors They showed the relation between ethnos, culture and provides a smooth transition from the Turkic-speaking language, which entailed long discussions in scientific language personality to the Russian language personality, community [2; 3]. language personality, providing the understanding and