ISOMORPHIC FEATURES OF EMOTION-RELATED IDIOMS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK: SEMANTIC SIMILARITIES AND COMMON FIGURATIVE IMAGES

Abstract

This article examines the isomorphic features of emotion-related idioms in English and Uzbek, with particular attention to semantic similarities and shared figurative images. Although English and Uzbek belong to different linguistic and cultural traditions, both languages employ similar conceptual mechanisms to express human emotional experience. The study focuses on idioms denoting happiness, anger, fear, sadness, anxiety, and other emotional states. The analysis demonstrates that body parts, the heart, blood, heat, cold, vertical orientation, movement, and spatial relations are among the most productive figurative sources in both languages. Examples such as make one's blood boil – qoni qaynamoq, have one's heart in one's mouth – yuragi og‘ziga kelmoq, and be over the moon – boshi ko‘kka yetmoq illustrate different degrees of semantic and figurative correspondence. The findings indicate that many similarities between English and Uzbek idioms are motivated by shared human bodily experience, while differences in their lexical realization reflect the cultural and phraseological specificity of each language. The study is relevant to comparative phraseology, cognitive linguistics, translation studies, and intercultural communication.