Phraseological units that verbalize nonverbal behavior transform bodily action – gesture, facial expression, posture, and gaze – into culturally stabilized meaning. Their contrastive study is important for linguoculturology because similar movements may be interpreted through different social norms, and these interpretations become conventionalized in the idiomatic layer of a language. This article compares English and Uzbek phraseological units denoting nonverbal actions and reconstructs their cultural scripts through a scenario-based lens, focusing on (a) the bodily form, (b) pragmatic intention, and (c) socially expected interpretation. Uzbek phraseographic evidence (dictionary fixation and semantic explanations) is examined alongside selected studies addressing paralinguistics, professional communication, and multimodal discourse. The analysis shows that both languages share a strong preference for face-, head-, and hand-centered imagery, but they differ in the pragmatic “center of gravity”: Uzbek units more often index relational ethics (respect, propriety, responsibility), while English units more often foreground individual stance (skepticism, distance, emotional control). These divergences are especially salient in translation, where literal equivalence may preserve bodily form but fail to activate the intended cultural script.
| Mualliflar | Atayev , Gulam Kabulovich |
|---|---|
| Jurnal | Lingvospektr |
| Nashr sanasi | 2026-01-07 |
| Jild | 12 |
| Son | 1 |
| Betlar | 117-121 |
| Til | Ingliz |
Фразеологические единицы, невербальные действия, телесная семантика, лингвокультурология, английский язык, узбекский язык, паралингвистика, культурно обусловленные значения, Frazeologik birliklar, noverbal harakatlar, jismoniy semantika, lingvokulturologiya, ingliz tili, o‘zbek tili, para-lingvistika, madaniyatga xos maʼnolar, Phraseology, linguoculturology, nonverbal communication, kinesics, somatic phraseology, English, Uzbek
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