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COGNITIVE-PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF LINGUISTIC UNITS EXPRESSING EMOTIONS IN ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

Emotion concepts, emotive vocabulary, conceptual metaphor, pragmatics, comparative analysis, cognitive linguistics, intercultural communication, English, Russian, Uzbek.

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This article explores the cognitive and pragmatic features of linguistic units expressing emotions in English, Russian, and Uzbek.
Through a comparative analysis, the study identifies universal and culturally specific models of conceptualizing and verbalizing
emotional experiences. The research reveals that while all three languages share certain universal conceptual metaphors (e.g.,
anger is heat), their linguistic realizations and the dominant pragmatic strategies for expressing emotions differ significantly.
These differences are determined by linguistic typology, historical-cultural experience, and national communicative etiquette.
The findings have implications for cognitive linguistics, intercultural communication, translation studies, and language teaching.