There is represented the emblematic comprehension of the linguocultural script “hospitability” in the communicative behavior of Kalmyk people. There are considered its linguistic, discursive and ritual signs.

There is given the linguistic and cultural description of the concept orphan in the Kalmyk and the Russian languages. There are considered the conceptual, figurative and perceptive and value characteristics of the given concept. Through the investigation of its nominative density, associative signs, there is stated the ethnic specificity of the concept orphan in the compared linguistic cultures.