COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK TEXTS

Аннотация

This article looks at how people use metaphors in English and Uzbek. Metaphors are not a way to make language more interesting but they also show how people think and what they believe in. They reflect what people in a country think is important and what they value. The goal of this article is to find out what is the same and what is different about how metaphorsre used in English and Uzbek. This is done by looking at things that people have written in books and newspapers. The article wants to see how people, in these two languages use metaphors to express their ideas and thoughts and what this says about English and Uzbek metaphors. In this study, qualitative and comparative methods were employed to reveal how metaphors function semantically and pragmatically in both languages.