LINGUOPRAGMATIC ASPECT OF OFFICIAL LETTERS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES)
Keywords:
linguopragmatics, official letters, English, Uzbek, speech acts, politeness, communicative intention, institutional discourse, pragmatic equivalence, business correspondence.Abstract
This article examines the linguopragmatic features of official letters in English
and Uzbek, focusing on communicative intention, institutional context, speech acts,
and politeness strategies. The study employs a qualitative contrastive approach
combining genre analysis, speech-act theory, and pragmatic interpretation. Illustrative
examples demonstrate how the two languages express requests, instructions, refusals,
apologies, gratitude, and institutional obligations. The findings indicate that English
and Uzbek official correspondence share the objectives of clarity and professional
politeness but employ different linguistic resources. English frequently uses modalized
questions and indirect requests, whereas Uzbek often employs respectful grammatical
forms and conventional institutional expressions. These differences depend on genre,
authority, and communicative purpose rather than fixed cultural patterns. The article
emphasizes pragmatic equivalence as a key principle of translation and offers
recommendations for professional writing and language teaching.
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