NATIONAL CULTURE IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK PROVERBS: A COMPARATIVE LINGUOCULTURAL STUDY
Abstract
This article examines English and Uzbek proverbs as compact cultural texts. Proverbs are treated not only as ready-made sayings, but also as verbal models of social experience, moral judgement and collective memory. The study compares several conceptual fields: work, time, home, family, community, speech etiquette, nature and fate. English proverbs tend to foreground personal responsibility, pragmatic calculation, economic value of time and individual self-control. Uzbek proverbs give broader space to family continuity, respect, hospitality, neighbourhood, patience and communal solidarity. The contrast is not absolute; both traditions share many universal moral ideas. Yet their imagery, pragmatic tone and axiological accents differ. The article also discusses translation problems and argues that proverb translation requires cultural equivalence, not merely lexical substitution.
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