TRANSLATION STRATEGIES AND EQUIVALENCE PROBLEMS OF PHRASAL VERBS IN UZBEK AND ENGLISH
Abstract
This article examines the translation strategies applied to English phrasal verbs when rendered into Uzbek, and the equivalence problems that arise from the structural and semantic asymmetry between the two languages. English phrasal verbs, as highly idiomatic and polysemantic units, often lack direct one-word equivalents in Uzbek, an agglutinative language that expresses similar meanings through analytic verb constructions or affixation. The study classifies the main translation strategies — literal translation, functional substitution, descriptive translation, and omission/compensation — and evaluates their effectiveness in achieving semantic and pragmatic equivalence. The findings suggest that full equivalence is rarely achieved at the lexical level, and translators must rely on contextual and functional equivalence strategies instead.
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