THE NATIONAL-CULTURAL SPECIFICITY OF THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF FAMILY VALUES IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK

Abstract

The article investigates the national-cultural specificity of the conceptualization of family values in English and Uzbek from the perspectives of cognitive linguistics, linguoculturology, cultural semantics, and comparative linguistics. The study proceeds from the assumption that family, while constituting a universal sociocultural institution, is conceptualized and linguistically represented through culturally specific systems of values, social norms, interpersonal expectations, and collective experience. The research focuses on lexical units, kinship terminology, phraseological expressions, proverbs, metaphorical constructions, and discourse patterns that verbalize family-related values in English and Uzbek. Particular attention is given to such value domains as family cohesion, respect for parents and elders, individual autonomy, responsibility, affection, marriage, child-rearing, intergenerational relations, hospitality, and social solidarity. The study contributes to comparative linguoculturology and cognitive linguistics and has implications for intercultural communication, translation, foreign-language education, and the interpretation of culturally marked discourse.