A Comparative Study Of Proverbial Phraseological Units With Ethnonymic And Biblionymic Components In Uzbek And English

Abstract

This article presents a comparative linguistic analysis of proverbial phraseological units containing ethnonyms and biblionyms in Uzbek and English. Such phraseological units reflect ethnic identities, historical memory, cultural values, and religious worldviews of each society. The study examines structural-semantic features, cultural connotations, and pragmatic functions of these proverbs. Despite belonging to different language families—Uzbek to the Turkic group and English to the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages—both languages show parallels in the use of ethnonymic and biblionymic components as symbolic markers. However, the linguistic forms, cultural associations, and metaphorical mappings differ significantly. This research contributes to understanding how languages encode ethnic and religious concepts in fixed expressions and what these structures reveal about cultural cognition.