Abstract:
This article uses an interdisciplinary approach to analyze textual sources from nomadic civilization. Linguistic analysis
has been increasingly used due to the emergence of a huge array of autochthonous and authentic written sources.
It is impossible to extract the necessary historical information from those sources without using a new research
method. This study aims to apply discourse analysis to medieval textual sources called edicts published in 1400–1635
by the leaders of the Central Asian states. This approach is expected to enable a detailed study of the structure of
edicts, as well as speech patterns and terms used in the text. The results of the study revealed the structure of the
examined edicts, as well as socio-cultural, economic, and communicative features of the nomadic society. First, the
discourse repertoire of Edicts from Sygnak is rather unique, as evidenced by comparative analysis of patents from the cities of Sygnak, Sayram and Turkestan located in the Syr Darya basin. Second, edicts in this study refect the result of the mutual infuence of sedentary and mobile lifeways. Third, the arguments behind certain speech patterns used in the examined edicts emerged under the infuence of Turkic traditions.
