The Phonostylistic Methods and Means of Creating Comic Situations in The Speech of Uzbek Comedians

Аннотация

This article explores the phonostylistic and phonopragmatic strategies used by Uzbek comedians to construct humorous situations in performance discourse. It investigates the role of phonetic manipulation— particularly vowel elongation, consonant gemination, and stress variation—in conveying irony, sarcasm, intensification, emotionality, and cultural symbolism. Drawing on examples from well-known performers such as Hojiboy Tojiboyev and Avaz Oxun, the study demonstrates how these phonostylistic tools enhance communicative effect, evoke laughter, and reflect national identity. The findings highlight the anthropocentric and functional nature of sound alteration in comedic speech, underscoring its relevance for the broader study of Uzbek phonostylistics. Keywords: Phonostylistics, phonopragmatics, Uzbek humorous discourse, vowel lengthening, sound substitution, expressive speech, national identity, parody, linguistic play. Introduction: In recent years, phonostylistics has Foundational contributions to the field of emerged as a dynamic subfield within Uzbek linguistics. phonostylistics have been made by Uzbek scholars such While earlier studies have addressed the stylistic and as Mamatov [4], Sherboyeva [2], and Rahmatullayeva pragmatic aspects of phonetic elements, the discourse [10], who examined expressive potential in different of Uzbek comedians—particularly the purposeful layers of the language. Their work underlines the idea manipulation of sound for comedic effect—remains an that phonetic elements can carry stylistic weight and underexamined area. Humorists often deploy phonetic communicative function beyond their acoustic devices such as vowel elongation, consonant doubling, properties. Internationally, similar inquiries into and stress shifts not only for aesthetic variation but also suprasegmental features in humorous or performative to reinforce cultural meaning, convey emotion, and speech can be found in works by Crystal (1998) and generate laughter. These techniques are especially Attardo (2001). However, much of the existing research prominent in performance contexts like stand-up remains rooted in literary or dialogic language. As comedy, askiya, and televised satire, where language noted by Isaqova [7], phonetic manipulation in legal or becomes a primary vehicle of social critique and public discourse has been studied in connection with entertainment. This paper aims to analyze these register and clarity, yet few studies have ventured into phenomena through a phonopragmatic lens, performance linguistics, where sound is exploited illustrating how intentional sound modification creatively and contextually. functions as a linguistic strategy in humorous discourse. The main part Literature Review A number of scholarly studies have been conducted in American Journal Of Philological Sciences 117 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ajps American Journal Of Philological Sciences (ISSN – 2771-2273) Uzbek linguistics concerning the stylistic [10, 132; 3, 22] a result of lexical, morphological, and syntactic and pragmatic [7, 172] features of phonetic devices. interactions (e.g., lexeme + morpheme, lexeme + However, considering the significant expansion of the lexeme). research scope of phonostylistics in recent times, we In the speech of Uzbek humorists, wordplay typically believe that it is necessary to carry out more serious carries a humorous, ironic, or laughter-inducing and in-depth investigations in this field. This view is character. "Laughter-inducing devices are diverse and supported by several scholars [5, 45-48; 2, 22]. In can be found across all linguistic levels, including particular, a thorough study of the linguo-stylistic phonetic, lexical, morphological, and syntactic layers." features of sound modifications in the speech of In particular, the speech of humorists may reflect humorists, their phonopragmatic interpretation, the national mentality through phonostylistic phenomena connotative meanings associated with the such as assonance (vowel elongation), alliteration pronunciation of speech units, wordplay related to (repetition of consonants), and gemination (consonant phonetic changes, as well as the stylistic potential of doubling) [2, 4]. It is well established that the formation suprasegmental elements such as intonation, pause, of humorous discourse engages phonetic, lexical, and and stress in the discourse of satirists and comedians, grammatical resources, each performing specific can provide important theoretical conclusions for the communicative functions. It is important to remember development of phonostylistics in the Uzbek language. that, just as other linguistic units possess stylistic In general linguistic practice, phonetic phenomena in potential, the semantic-stylistic capacity of phonetic our language are primarily triggered by natural factors tools also becomes evident within the framework of such as the tendency toward brevity in speech, the the text. presence or abs