LINGUOCULTURAL PECULIARITIES OF ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

This article explores the linguocultural peculiarities of the English and Uzbek languages, focusing on how social values, traditions, and worldviews are encoded in linguistic structures and lexicons. Employing a comparative qualitative methodology, the research analyzes 100 ethnocultural units drawn from educational dictionaries and authentic texts, covering areas such as address forms, politeness strategies, cultural realia, and idiomatic expressions. The findings reveal fundamental differences in communication styles, with Uzbek reflecting collectivist, high-context cultural traits through indirectness, honorifics, and culturally loaded expressions, while English exhibits characteristics of an individualistic, low-context culture with more direct speech and syntactic politeness markers. The lexicographical treatment of cultural terms in bilingual dictionaries was found to be insufficient, often lacking necessary cultural annotations, which may hinder language learners’ cultural understanding.