LINGUISTIC-CULTURAL FEATURES OF THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THEMES AND FORMS OF UZBEK AND ENGLISH FOLKLORE
Today, the study of issues such as language and personality, language and culture, language and thinking is deepening in the fields of linguistics - psycholinguistics, linguoculturalism, cognitive linguistics, and pragmalinguistics. The anthropocentric approach to language embodies the latest achievements of these fields and is increasingly strengthening its status as an independent paradigm. In the literature on linguistic culture, metaphors are put together with proverbs, phrases, similes, which are considered the main linguistic and cultural units of the language. Folklore lives by word of mouth, literature lives through writing. Folklore works are performed orally and sung, while literature is only read. It helps to spread and popularize the sample of oral folklore in performance. However, if the version performed by a skilled performer with high artistic skills is not recorded, after the death of the creator, this very example is doomed to disappear. "... reflects the fundamental cultural values, because it is based on the national-cultural outlook ”[1, 91-b.].