INGLIZ VA O‘ZBEK MATNLARIDA “OTA”, “ONA” VA “BOLA” KONSEPTLARINING LINGVOMADANIY JIHATLARI

Abstract

This article investigates the linguocultural encoding of three central family-role concepts -father, mother, and child -in contemporary English and Uzbek texts. Through comparative semantic, phraseological, and etymological analysis, the study identifies both universal conceptual features shared across the two languages and culturally specific encodings that reflect contrasting value systems. The findings demonstrate that both cultures conceptualise the father as an authority and provider figure; however, the Uzbek concept embeds paternal authority in an explicitly religious and collectivist framework absent from contemporary English usage. The mother concept occupies an exceptionally sacred position in Uzbek linguistic culture, encoded through a dense network of reverential expressions that contrasts with the more pragmatic framing found in English. The child concept diverges most sharply on the axis of individual autonomy versus family-duty orientation. These findings contribute to contrastive linguistics, linguoculturology, and intercultural communication studies.