THE FIELD STRUCTURE OF THE JUSTICE CONCEPT IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LINGUOCULTURES: A COMPARATIVE COGNITIVE-SEMANTIC STUDY

Abstract

Justice represents one of the fundamental moral, philosophical, legal, and sociocultural concepts through which individuals and communities interpret fairness, rights, responsibility, equality, and appropriate social conduct. Although the idea of justice possesses considerable cross-cultural significance, its linguistic representation and conceptual organization are shaped by historically established values, communicative practices, and culturally specific systems of meaning. The comparison of English justice and Uzbek adolat is particularly relevant because these lexical units share a substantial semantic foundation while participating in partially different lexical, phraseological, and discourse networks. This study aims to examine the field structure of the JUSTICE/ADOLAT concept in English and Uzbek linguocultures, identify its nuclear, near-peripheral, and far-peripheral components, and explain similarities and differences in its cognitive-semantic and linguocultural representation