LINGUOCULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

The relevance of this study arises from the practical need to interpret idiomatic expressions through the cultural meanings embedded in their imagery. The research defines linguocultural analysis as a three-dimensional procedure combining structural form, conceptual image, and contextual function. Historical-comparative analysis, hermeneutic interpretation, source criticism, and close reading of literary contexts were applied to English and Uzbek phraseological material. The analysis established three recurrent categories: culturally marked images, shared human experience, and context-dependent pragmatic meaning. English expressions more frequently organize imagery around social conduct and everyday institutions, whereas Uzbek expressions more visibly preserve traditional communal relations and symbolic evaluations. The resulting typology demonstrates that formal equivalence cannot guarantee cultural equivalence. The study contributes a combined classification model for bilingual phraseological interpretation and recommends using literary context alongside dictionary definitions in translation and language teaching.