Onomastic Metaphors in The Works of Utkir Hoshimov Xaydarova Feruza

Аннотация

This article explores the use of onomastic metaphors in the literary works of Utkir Hoshimov, a prominent Uzbek writer known for his rich and culturally nuanced language. Onomastic metaphors—those derived from proper names such as personal names, place names, and ethnonyms—serve as a significant stylistic device in Hoshimov’s narratives. They not only enrich the imagery and expressiveness of the text but also reflect the national mentality, historical consciousness, and sociocultural context of the Uzbek people. The study analyzes selected examples from Hoshimov’s major works to identify how proper names are metaphorically transformed to convey emotional, symbolic, or evaluative meanings. These metaphorical usages highlight the deep interconnection between language, identity, and cultural memory in Uzbek literature. Keywords: Utkir Hoshimov, onomastic metaphor, Uzbek literature, cultural memory, stylistic device, personal names, toponyms, ethnonyms, linguistic imagery, national identity. speech, a rhetorical device, and a tool of artistic Introduction: The metaphor is described as “a expression. However, by the 20th century, perceptions necessary tool of thinking, a form of scientific of metaphor had changed: its spheres of existence had reasoning,” “a means that extends the hand of the expanded, and metaphor came to be seen as a true intellect,” and “one of the most powerful tools for manifestation of fundamental cognitive activity. understanding the world,” serving as a key to grasping Notably, the article also stresses that metaphor, while the universe and reflecting the features of human being one of the most productive tools for cognition. Attention has been given to metaphor since understanding the world, simultaneously serves to the time of Aristotle. The scholar defines metaphor as economically and intelligently regulate the number of a linguistic tool based on the process of transferring the separate lexical units in a language [4;117]. properties of one object to those of another [2;686]. D. Khudoyberganova evaluates metaphors not only as One of the leading contemporary specialists on possessing significant cognitive-semantic value in a text metaphor, N.D. Arutyunova, states: “There is no more but also as phenomena that reflect the unique aspects beautiful method of providing vivid illustrations in of the national cultural mindset of a language speech than metaphor” [3;188]. In recent years, community. She asserts that texts constructed on the linguoculturology has emerged as a relatively new basis of similes and metaphors allow for the scientific discipline. Within this field, metaphor has identification of patterned textual structures primarily been studied as a means of artistic expression characteristic of a given language. The scholar has and has been recognized as an integral component assessed them as precedent forms of text [9;18] and (object) of linguoculturology. Of particular note is N. has proposed a classification of metaphors into word, Mahmudov’s article “Term, Figurative Word, and word combination, sentence, and microtext forms Metaphor,” which deserves special attention. This [7;36]. article emphasizes that metaphor has been studied in the field of world philology for over two thousand Metaphor is a universal means of understanding the years, and nearly all philosophers of the classical era world, through which the interaction of cognition, interpreted metaphor mainly as an embellishment of language, consciousness, and culture is manifested. It American Journal Of Philological Sciences 357 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ajps American Journal Of Philological Sciences (ISSN – 2771-2273) undoubtedly arouses interest in linguocultural their appearance as onomastic metaphors. “Onomastic research. units may also be used metaphorically in literary texts. When metaphor is manifested through such units, it is The use of metaphor in literary works individualizes the referred to as an onomastic metaphor, which involves speech of characters and imbues it with the author's using a specific onomastic unit in a non-name context unique style. A new image, a new metaphor expands — that is, relying on the similarity between a concept the cultural space and reveals its inner essence and and a name (for example, expressing the meaning of a meaning. generous person through the anthroponym Hotam)” In recent years, onomastic metaphor has been [1; 54]. “If a metaphorically used onomastic unit has distinguished as a specific type of metaphor in been accepted as a cultural standard of a specific linguistics. As is known, “onomastic metaphors, which feature in a particular linguoculture, its connection to are one type of metaphor, are phenomena that reflect the concepts and ideas formed in the minds of the the expressive potential of our language. A name representatives of that linguoculture also becomes endowed with metaphorical meaning, particularly in evident. In other words, the fame of a particul