COMPARATIVE LINGUOCULTURAL ANALYSIS OF CORONAVIRUS LEXICON IN THE ENGLISH AND UZBEK NAIVE PICTURE OF THE WORLD
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic became not only a global health crisis but also an important linguistic phenomenon that transformed the lexical systems of many languages. New words, idioms, slogans, and phraseological expressions rapidly emerged in response to unprecedented social changes. Language became one of the primary instruments for communicating preventive measures, expressing emotional reactions, and reflecting cultural values associated with the pandemic. Previous studies have mainly focused on COVID-19 terminology, neologisms, and media discourse. However, comparatively little attention has been devoted to the representation of coronavirus -related phraseological units within the naive worldview of differen t linguistic communities. The naive worldview reflects people's everyday perception of reality and is verbalized through proverbs, idioms, slogans, and other stable expressions that preserve cultural experience.Author Biography
Nigora Abdullayeva
Senior teacher, Department of Theory of Translation and Comparative Linguistics
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