CULTURAL CONCEPTUALIZATION IN ENGLISH-UZBEK LITERARY TRANSLATION
Keywords:
Cultural conceptualization; English-Uzbek translation; literary metaphor; culture-specific item; forms of address; extralinguistic context; pragmatic reconstruction; authorial idiolect.Abstract
This article examines culturally and conceptually marked elements in English-Uzbek literary translation, focusing on metaphorical imagery, culture-specific references, and forms of address. These features reflect worldview, social relations, cultural memory, and evaluative position, so they cannot be treated as isolated lexical units. Using a qualitative cognitive-cultural analysis of English micro-contexts and Uzbek variants, the study shows that direct translation may retain words but lose conceptual function, while excessive domestication may erase cultural specificity. A context-sensitive model based on conceptual preservation, culturally calibrated adaptation, and pragmatic reconstruction is proposed. Successful translation depends on preserving the relationship between linguistic form, cultural meaning, and narrative function.
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