Yusupov Alisher Sharafiddinovich

Аннотация

This paper focuses on the cross-linguistic analysis of presupposition in Agatha Christie’s detective stories, emphasizing their role in guiding readers’ understanding and framing the narrative context. Presupposition, a semantic-pragmatic phenomenon, involves implicitly stating information that is taken for granted by both the speaker and the addressee, thereby adding depth and complexity to character dialogue, suspects’ testimony, and plot progression. In Christie’s texts, presupposition contributes significantly to character relationships, suspicion, and eventual resolution of the mystery. This study applies a contrastive linguistic approach, comparing presupposition mechanisms in the original English texts and their Uzbek translations. Our main aim is to identify and describe linguistic signals, transformation strategies, and semantic effects related to presupposition across both languages. Furthermore, we investigate how these mechanisms influence the way the stories are perceived by readers in different linguistic and cultural contexts. The comparative analysis shows that while some presuppositions are directly preserved in translation, others are rendered more implicitly or are even reformulated due to linguistic, semantic, or cultural differences. This process may affect the degree of suspicion, dramatic tension, or eventual resolution of the plot. Our study contributes to a better understanding of the role of presupposition in literature and highlights the necessity for careful semantic-pragmatic consideration during translation, ensuring that the author’s intent is successfully conveyed across linguistic borders. Keywords: Presupposition, Agatha Christie, cross-linguistic analysis, semantic-pragmatic phenomenon, translation, Uzbek, English. way subsequent messages are processed and Introduction: Language is a powerful tool for framing interpreted by the recipient. Presupposition is knowledge, guiding understanding, and influencing the frequently used in literature, particularly in detective way we perceive reality. Among its mechanisms, stories, to create a sophisticated plot structure, foster presupposition stands out for its ability to enable dramatic tension, and produce an atmosphere of authors to sneak information into a text, adding depth, suspicion. Agatha Christie, recognized as the “Queen of complexity, and an aura of mystery. This semantic- Crime”, skillfully utilizes presupposition in her stories to pragmatic phenomenon involves implicitly stating aid character deception, misdirection, and eventual information that is already taken for granted by both resolution of the plot, adding a unique flavor to her the speaker and the addressee, thereby affecting the American Journal Of Philological Sciences 186 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ajps American Journal Of Philological Sciences (ISSN – 2771-2273) narrative style. numerous presuppositional signals. This corpus includes well-known stories such as Murder on the This study aims to carry out a cross-linguistic analysis of Orient Express, Death on the Nile, A Miss Marple Short presupposition in Agatha Christie’s works, focusing on Story, and several other texts that collectively provide their expression and transformation in English and a broad range of presuppositional mechanisms for Uzbek. Our main objective is to uncover how contrastive analysis. The Uzbek translations were taken presuppositional mechanisms translate across from reliable and widely recognized editions, ensuring linguistic borders and how this process might affect the their credibility for comparative study. way the stories are perceived by readers in different linguistic and cultural contexts. This comparative view The first step in our method was the manual is especially important in understanding both the identification of presupposition triggers within the universal and language-specific mechanisms by which English texts. This process involved a close semantic- presupposition operates, and how it guides the pragmatic reading of the stories’ dialogue, narration, interpretive process for the readers. Furthermore, the and character exchanges. We classified study contributes to developing a greater awareness of presuppositional signals into several major categories, semantic-pragmatic subtleties in translation, which is a following the framework proposed by Levinson (1983) key consideration for retaining the author’s intent, and Yule (1996): definite descriptions, temporal dramatic effects, and character relationships in the adverbs, factive verbs, iterative expressions, change of target language. state verbs, and possessive structures. Each presupposition was then carefully documented The significance of this study lies not only in its alongside its context within the text, noting its role in contribution to the discipline of semantics and advancing the plot or influencing character pragmatics but also in its potential to aid practitioners relationships. of translatio