Psycholinguistic Aspect of Emotive Lexicon in English and Karakalpak Languages
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Emotions are fundamental to human communication, and language serves as a primary medium for expressing them. In psycholinguistics, emotive vocabulary plays a key role in understanding how emotions are conceptualized, encoded, and interpreted across cultures. The study focuses on the emotive lexicon in English and Karakalpak languages, exploring how emotional meanings are conveyed through lexical units, metaphors, interjections, phraseological expressions, and intonation. While both languages reflect universal emotions, their linguistic realizations differ due to cultural, social, and cognitive factors. Despite advances in cross-cultural psycholinguistics, comparative studies on emotion vocabulary in minority Turkic languages like Karakalpak remain underrepresented. The paper aims to identify the cognitive-emotive structures underlying the usage of emotive lexicon in English and Karakalpak, with attention to metaphorical expressions, cultural imagery, and contextual nuances. The analysis reveals that English tends toward concise, individualized emotional expression, often amplified in digital communication via idioms and emojis. In contrast, Karakalpak employs vivid, collective imagery and traditional metaphors rooted in communal life. Phraseology in both languages shows unique cultural markers, and interjections vary significantly in intensity and use. This research highlights the interplay of language, culture, and cognition in two typologically distinct systems and demonstrates how cultural psychology shapes emotional perception. The findings provide insight into language-specific emotional frameworks, contributing to translation theory, intercultural communication, and emotion studies in psycholinguistics.
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