THE EMOTIONAL FUNCTION OF RUSSIAN AND UZBEK PAREMIAS
Keywords:
paremia, emotion, emotionality, emotional-evaluative semantics, proverb, saying, Russian language, Uzbek language, linguistic worldview, linguoculture.Abstract
This article examines Russian and Uzbek paremias as a crucial means of expressing a person's emotional and evaluative attitude toward the surrounding reality. Paremias – comprising proverbs, sayings, and other fixed folk expressions – are an integral part of the national linguistic worldview. They reflect a people's historical experience, moral values, traditions, distinctive ways of perceiving the world, and modes of emotionally responding to various life situations. Particular attention is paid to the emotional function of paremias and to a comparison of how positive and negative emotions are expressed in the Russian and Uzbek languages. The analysis demonstrates that, while universal emotional meanings exist, the ways in which they are linguistically represented are largely shaped by national-cultural specificities. Studying paremias reveals the close interrelationship between language, culture, thought, and human emotional experience.
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