Cognitive and Language Sciences | Article | Published 2024

Cultural features of cultural expressions in English and Uzbek communication

Keywords: culture, communication, verbal communication, verbal expression, high-context culture, low-context culture, speech, speech act.

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of cultural features of English and Uzbek verbal expressions in communication. As these two languages belong to totally different language families, they both also differ in terms of culture. The aim of this research paper is to identify and analyze similar as well as distinguishing features of both English and Uzbek culture and the use of verbal expressions in the process of communication. So as to achieve our aim, the research makes use of some research methods that help to define scholars’ views on culture and verbal communication and to identify similar and dissimilar cultural features of verbal expressions in both culture. The object of this article is verbal expressions, whilst the subject matter is cultural features of English and Uzbek verbal expressions in communication. The results of the analyses are illustrated with a number of examples in English and Uzbek.

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