Pragmatic-Cognitive Modeling Of Space And Movement Concepts In English And Uzbekistan

Abstract

This research work is devoted to the comparative study of linguistic and mental models of space and movement concepts in English and Uzbek at the intersection of modern cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, in which the features of conceptualization of the world in both languages ​​are analyzed. The article, based on Leonard Talmy's theory of the typology of movement reality, deeply studies the differences between the "satellite-framed" (expressing direction through additional elements) nature of the English language and the "verb-framed" and agglutinative nature of the Uzbek language. The study identified the metaphorical transfer of spatial relations and their pragmatic functions in discourse, and as a result, the cognitive dissonances between action verbs and spatial prepositions (in English) and conjunctive adverbs (in Uzbek) were scientifically substantiated. The results show that English speakers pay more attention to the manner of performing the action (manner), while Uzbek speakers focus on the direction and result of the action (path/result). This study is of great importance for translation studies, linguistic modeling of artificial intelligence, and the theory of intercultural communication, and sheds light on the specific mechanisms of thinking in two different systemic languages.