LINGUOCULTURAL FEATURES OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK FOLK TALES

Abstract

This article examines the linguocultural features of phraseological units found in English and Uzbek folk tales, focusing on how idiomatic expressions encode national mentality, moral values, and cognitive worldview. Employing comparative-descriptive and structural-semantic methods, the study analyzes units drawn from both folklore traditions, revealing shared thematic categories such as deception, fate, and kinship alongside divergent culture-specific imagery rooted in religious cosmology, somatic symbolism, and material life. The findings demonstrate that folk tales not only employ existing phraseological units but also generate new ones through recurrent narrative formulae. The study contributes to translation studies and foreign language pedagogy by highlighting the cultural mediation required for adequate cross-linguistic phraseological equivalence