Author: Juraqobilova, Hamida Xolmatovna

Annotation: Metaphor is a multifaceted linguistic phenomenon that reflects the national and cultural characteristics, traditions, customs, and worldview of a people. For this reason, interest in studying metaphors from a linguistic-cognitive and linguistic-cultural perspective, both within a single language or through a comparative analysis of different languages, is increasing today. This contributes to the development of social and cultural relations between the peoples who speak the Uzbek language and the languages being compared, helping to identify both similarities and differences in the associative thinking of both nations. In the article, the phenomenon metaphor was researched as a linguistic phenomenon which reflected the national-cultural characteristics and worldview of the people from the linguo-cognitive and linguo-cultural point of view. The national-cultural features cognitive metaphors of the Uzbek language were analyzed in the sample of Abdulhamid Cholpon’s novel called “Night and Day” in the translation of French language.

Keywords: cognitive metaphor, language and cognition, conceptual metaphor, concept, linguistic phenomenon, national and cultural characteristics, fiction text, associative thinking.

Pages in journal: 51 - 59