GENDER CONCEPTS AND LINGUISTIC MODELS OF FEMALE IDENTITY IN THE POETRY OF ANNA AKHMATOVA AND ZULFIYA ISROILOVA

Abstract

The article presents a comparative analysis of gender concepts and linguistic models of female identity in the poetry of two prominent twentieth-century poets, Anna Akhmatova and Zulfiya Isroilova. The study is conducted within the frameworks of cognitive poetics and linguocultural studies and aims to identify the conceptual structures that shape feminine world perception in Russian and Uzbek poetic traditions, as well as the ways in which the experience of the female “self” — emotional, cultural, and existential — is constructed in these traditions. Special attention is paid to the analysis of key concepts such as love, memory, fate, home, voice, and woman, along with the mechanisms of their linguistic representation, including metaphorical models, cultural codes, semiotic structures, and emotional dominants. The paper examines metaphorical patterns (woman as the voice of memory, woman as pain/wound, woman as the guardian of the world), strategies of subjectivity in poetic discourse, and the specific features of culturally embedded codes.