UNIVERSAL CONCEPTS AND TYPOLOGICAL SIMILARITIES IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LITERARY TEXTS

This article examines the role of universal concepts and typological similarities in English and Uzbek literary texts. It focuses on how life, fate, love, homeland, time, space, honor, and moral responsibility are represented in different literary traditions. Drawing on comparative literary studies, cognitive poetics, and linguocultural interpretation, the article argues that typological similarity does not eliminate national specificity; rather, it reveals how common human experience is artistically transformed in culturally distinct forms. Special attention is paid to the ideas of Khalida Akhtamovna Mamatkulova, whose research stresses the relationship between universal human concepts, worldview, national identity, and literary meaning.