STRUCTURAL-SEMANTIC AND FUNCTIONAL-STYLISTIC ASPECTS OF THE ANTONYMIC CONCEPTS OF “HONESTY” AND “THEFT” IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LINGUOCULTURES
Keywords:
concept, antonymy, verbalizer, linguoculture, evaluation, semantics, discourse, stylisticsAbstract
This article examines the concepts of “honesty” and “theft” as opposing semantic units in the English and Uzbek languages. Their verbalizers – that is, the linguistic means by which these concepts are expressed—are comparatively analyzed from structural-semantic, stylistic, and functional perspectives. The study identifies cultural characteristics, cognitive-linguistic foundations, and contextual uses in discourse. The results reveal the evaluative components and semantic load of these concepts in national cognition.
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