CROSS-CULTURAL PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK COMMUNICATION

Abstract

 The‍‌ paper dives into the pragmatic aspects of the cross-cultural emotional expressions in English and Uzbek communication. The research shows that emotions like joy, anger, and sadness are differentially verbalized and even non-verbalized across various languages because these are essentially cultural products. The study looks at how emotive speech acts become pragmatically operative in these two linguistic communities by investigating politeness strategies, indirectness, emotional intensity, and social hierarchy. The comparison of English individualistic nature with Uzbek collectivist behavior allows the researchers to figure out how emotional communication is a mirror of the general cultural values and the norms of the interpersonal relationships. The results from this work are getting ready to become a reservoir for intercultural pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics, with the attraction of the insights for translation, language teaching, and cross-cultural communication.