Abstract

The article analyzes the ethno-linguistic aspects of the creation of a work ethic and the prerequisites for nation-building.
Expectations of a socio-economic nature (the dynamics of economic growth, and, as a result, expectations of an improvement in the financial situation, an increase in the social and property status), and, on the contrary, pessimistic expectations are variables, and the ethnic and linguistic characteristics of society are stable and permanent signs.
It is described using the example of the German language as Martin Luther’s change of the semantic connotative component in the word Beruf led to the creation of a new work ethic known as the work ethic of Protestantism. In addition, the question was raised about the uselessness of the church hierarchy in Catholicism and the establishment of horizontal relations in Protestant communities instead of vertical, hierarchical relations in the Catholic Church was consecrated. This opened up the possibility of nation-building in the countries of Western Europe. A comparison of the words of the German and Kazakh languages about labor and work is carried out.
The experience of Western Europe demonstrates that semantic deprivation, in essence, a semantic revolution, is needed in the worldview for the formation of a work ethic and progress in the process of nation-building in Kazakhstan.