Ingliz va o‘zbek lingvomadaniyatida “oq” va “qora” rang konseptlarining lingvokognitiv xususiyatlari

This article presents a contrastive investigation of the linguocognitive, semantic, and linguocultural properties of the colour concepts “white” and “black” in English and Uzbek linguocultures. Drawing on relevant theoretical sources, the study examines the formation of colour categories, the theory of basic colour terms, the core-periphery structure of the colour semantic field, and the denotative, connotative, and pragmatic potential of colour adjectives. The research employs descriptive, contrastive-semantic, and conceptual analysis methods. In particular, it discusses Berlin and Kay’s theory of basic colour terms, Kay and McDaniel’s interpretation of colour categories as fuzzy sets, and approaches to the semantic classification of adjectives. In the practical and analytical part of the study, the author conducts a contrastive analysis of 20 English and Uzbek phraseological and fixed expressions containing the components “oq/white” and “qora/black”, applying five linguocognitive criteria. The findings indicate that the Uzbek component “oq” is predominantly associated with spiritual purity, good intentions, and social approval, whereas the English component “white”, in addition to purity, performs such semantic functions as mitigating meaning, expressing uselessness, and indicating occupational and social classification. Expressions containing “qora/black” reveal shared semantic features associated with sorrow, illegality, and negative moral evaluation, while also demonstrating context-dependent meanings related to the intensity of labour and specific discourse functions. The findings substantiate that the linguocultural meanings of colour concepts should be examined not merely at the level of individual lexemes but through the interaction of phraseological expressions, context, and communicative situations.