The development of science requires new research. Obviously, the search for this innovation is growing in the Kazakh language, the main category of cognitive linguistics is the study of the concept, the presentation of which is based on specific facts. However, in accordance with the knowledge of our people about the world, we can say that the concept of “child” in the Kazakh culture through the wealth of the country, a detailed study of the new direction was not fully implemented.In this regard, it is important to study the problem of determining the social significance of the child in society, in the family in accordance with the nature, worldview, spiritual and cultural values of our nation through the concept of the child, accumulated over the centuries. The article reveals the essence of the semantic space “child” in the worldview of the Kazakh nation, a conceptual analysis of the works of the Kazakh writer T. Akhtanov is carried out. The theoretical foundations and methods of studying the semantic space of the "child" are determined.

In the modern Kazakh literary world, the function of lexical means of representing the concept of “child” is defined.