THE LINGUO-COGNITIVE INTERPRETATION OF THE “LIFE-DEATH” DICHOTOMY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH AND KARAKALPAK LITERARY TEXTS
Keywords:
language, cognition, literature, life, death, dichotomy, metaphor, English literature, Karakalpak literature, twentieth century, culture.Abstract
This article explores the linguo-cognitive interpretation of the “life-death” dichotomy in twentieth-century English and Karakalpak literary texts. Through a comparative and analytical approach, it examines the ways in which writers from both literary traditions conceptualize, express, and contest the opposition of life and death as foundational existential categories. Focusing on metaphorical frameworks, narrative structures, and cultural codes, the study reveals the commonalities and differences in how human experience with mortality and vitality is embedded in language and literature. The article also highlights the role of specific historical, social, and cultural events that shaped the evolution of these themes in both English and Karakalpak writers’ works. The findings show that while the dichotomy is treated as a universal motif, its poetic realization, cognitive background, and symbolic manifestations are tightly interwoven with national memory, worldview, and literary innovation.
