A COGNITIVE AND PRAGMATIC COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE MEANING IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK

Abstract

This article deals with the issues based on the activation of figurative meanings in English and Uzbek through a cognitive and pragmatic comparative framework. Figurative language, especially metaphor and metonymy, increasingly replaces literal meanings in everyday communication, literature, media, and educational discourse. The study explores how conceptual mappings and pragmatic inferencing motivate such semantic shifts. Drawing on cognitive metaphor theory and discourse pragmatics, the paper analyzes cross-linguistic similarities and differences in meaning extension, pragmatic motivation, and emotional expressiveness.