PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH AND UZBEK TONGUE TWISTERS

Pragmatic analysis examines tongue twisters not through the question "What do they mean?" but rather through the question "What do they cause to happen?" In this approach, the discursive context is not merely cataloged; instead, the primary focus is on the speech act that occurs between the speaker, the listener, and the group when a tongue twister is uttered. While the locutionary form of a tongue twister is typically a short text, its illocutionary force engages the listener in a performance, and its perlocutionary effect manifests as laughter, astonishment, competition, self-testing, or the need for self-correction. This criterion helps minimize redundancy: the analysis centers not on the setting in which a tongue twister is used, but on the specific speech force through which it functions.