A COMPARATIVE LINGUOCULTURAL ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS THROUGH JAKOBSON'S LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

Аннотация

This article explores the linguocultural characteristics of common speech acts across English, Uzbek, and Karakalpak languages by applying Roman Jakobson's six language functions. Using culturally contextualized examples from literature, the article highlights how different language communities employ language functions to realize speech acts such as greeting, thanking, apologizing, addressing, and casual conversation. This analysis is further framed by Hofstede's and Triandis's cultural dimensions to account for deeper sociocultural implications in communication.