THE REFLECTION OF NATIONAL-MENTAL (CULTURAL) FEATURES OF STYLISTIC DEVICES IN THE TRANSLATION BETWEEN ENGLISH AND UZBEK
Abstract
This article examines how stylistic devices that embody national-mental (cultural) color in English and Uzbek are conveyed in translation. The study explores the culturally marked metaphors, idioms, proverbs, epithets, and symbolic expressions that shape each nation’s linguistic worldview and emotional perception. Special attention is given to the challenges that emerge when culturally bound stylistic units have no direct equivalents in the target language. Using comparative and pragmatic approaches, the research identifies strategies such as cultural adaptation, functional substitution, descriptive rendering, and contextual reinterpretation as effective tools for preserving stylistic and cultural meaning. The findings demonstrate that successful translation of culturally loaded stylistic devices requires not only linguistic proficiency but also deep cultural awareness and sensitivity to national conceptual systems. Ultimately, the paper argues that the translator’s ability to reproduce cultural color and stylistic effect plays a decisive role in achieving communicative equivalence between English and Uzbek texts.
Keywords
national mentality; cultural color; stylistic devices; English–Uzbek translation; culturally bound units; metaphor; idiom; pragmatic adaptation; linguistic worldview; communicative equivalence.
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