TAGGING AND CATEGORIZING EMOTIONS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LEXICAL FIELD

Abstract

This article explores the tagging and categorizing of emotional vocabulary within the English and Uzbek languages by analyzing lexical‑semantic fields, cultural variation in emotional expression, and cross‑linguistic alignment strategies. Drawing on recent comparative studies, it examines how emotions are identified, categorized, and aligned across these linguistic systems, highlighting key semantic and cultural nuances that influence linguistic representation, cognitive metaphor, and translation. The study concludes that universal emotional concepts exist in both languages, but lexical richness, metaphorical structures, and cultural norms shape distinct organisation and categorization within their respective lexical fields.