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2025-11-07
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE SEMANTIC AND CONCEPTUAL FEATURES OF THE “RAIN/YOMG’IR” CONCEPT IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES
Nodirakhon Ashurova
Associate Professor of the Department of "Foreign Languages", “University of Economics and Pedagogy” Andijan, Uzbekistan
Keywords: rain, yomg‘ir, semantic shades, semantic system, conceptual metaphor, cognitive linguistics, linguistic relativism, lexical field, corpus analysis, intensity, connotation, impersonal construction, comparative semantics, metaphorical extension, semantic components.
Abstract
This article examines the semantic shades of meaning of the English lexeme “rain” and the Uzbek lexeme “yomg‘ir” from the perspectives of cognitive linguistics and comparative semantics. The study analyzes their denotational core, intensity-based variants, metaphorical extensions, connotational layers, and syntactic behaviors within a comprehensive linguistic framework. By integrating methods of corpus linguistics, lexical field theory, conceptual metaphor analysis, semantic component analysis, and typological-syntactic comparison, the structural and cognitive nature of the rain/yomg‘ir concept in both languages is systematically explored. The findings demonstrate that English exhibits a highly differentiated meteorological classification system, whereas Uzbek predominantly highlights spiritual, poetic, and symbolic connotations. Furthermore, the metaphorical and semantic structure of the “rain/yomg‘ir” concept is shown to be closely linked to the conceptual worldview of each linguistic community, consistent with the principles of linguistic relativism. The article identifies both culture-specific and universal semantic features of the lexeme and presents theoretical and practical implications for comparative linguistics.
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