A CROSS-LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ASPIRATION IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK

Аннотация

Cognitive linguistics focuses on the relationship between language and thought, investigating how linguistic structures reflect cognitive processes. A comparative study of English and Uzbek languages provides a unique perspective, as these languages belong to different linguistic families: English is an analytic language, while Uzbek is agglutinative. Cognitive metaphors, which structure how we perceive abstract concepts through more concrete experiences, are a key focus in this field. For example, metaphors for emotions like anger or success manifest differently in English and Uzbek.