LINGUOPRAGMATIC IMPLICITNESS IN TRANSLATED TEXTS: AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH LITERARY WORKS AND THEIR UZBEK TRANSLATIONS

This article examines linguopragmatic implicitness as a translation problem in the transfer of English literary prose and drama into Uzbek. Drawing on Gricean pragmatics, presupposition theory and relevance-theoretic accounts of translation, the study treats implicit meaning not as an optional stylistic layer but as a core component of the author's communicative intention. The material comprises fragments from works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and O. Henry, compared with their Uzbek renderings. Using comparative, contextual and pragmatic analysis, the paper identifies the major types of implicitness — conversational implicature, presupposition, culturally conditioned implicitness and implicit evaluation — and describes the strategies translators use to handle them: preservation, explicitation, compensation, pragmatic substitution and omission. The findings suggest that the typological gap between analytic English and agglutinative Uzbek, with its rich inventory of particles, honorific forms and evidential markers, pushes Uzbek translators toward selective explicitation. Excessive explicitation, however, risks flattening irony and removing the interpretive effort that the original deliberately demands. The article argues for a relevance-oriented criterion of adequacy: a translation succeeds when it enables the target reader to recover comparable implicatures at a comparable cognitive cost.