LINGUOCULTURAL FEATURES OF MILITARY TERMINOLOGY IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

Abstract

Military terminology constitutes one of the most significant and culturally marked layers of professional vocabulary in every language. It reflects not only military organization, strategic concepts, and technological development, but also the historical memory, national mentality, ideological orientation, and cultural worldview of a society. The present article investigates the linguocultural features of military terminology in English and Uzbek languages from comparative, semantic, historical, and pragmatic perspectives. The research aims to identify the national and cultural peculiarities embodied in military vocabulary and to determine how military terms function as carriers of collective values, traditions, and sociocultural experience. The study demonstrates that English military terminology has evolved under the influence of technological modernization, colonial expansion, globalization, and NATO military standards, whereas Uzbek military terminology reflects ancient Turkic military traditions, Islamic cultural heritage, Soviet military discourse, and contemporary national reforms after independence. The article examines lexical-semantic structures, metaphorical models, abbreviations, euphemisms, borrowings, and culturally specific military concepts in both languages. Special attention is devoted to the interaction between language and culture in military discourse and to the role of terminology in shaping national identity.