PROBLEMS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AMONG UZBEK AND ENGLISH SPEAKERS
Keywords:
cross-cultural communication, Uzbek speakers, English speakers, communicative competence, pragmatics, politeness, cultural misunderstanding, non-verbal communication, stereotypes, translation.Abstract
This article investigates the major cross-cultural communication problems that may occur between Uzbek and English speakers in different social, educational, academic and professional contexts. In the modern globalized world, communication between representatives of different languages and cultures is becoming more frequent and more necessary. However, successful communication does not depend only on grammatical correctness or vocabulary knowledge. It also requires the ability to understand cultural norms, pragmatic meanings, politeness strategies, non-verbal signals, social distance and the communicative expectations of the interlocutor. The article analyzes the main sources of misunderstanding between Uzbek and English speakers, including directness and indirectness, forms of address, politeness norms, silence, eye contact, personal space, time perception, stereotypes and translation-related pragmatic problems.
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