DESCRIPTION OF WOMEN'S IMAGE IN ENGLISH AND
UZBEK PROVERBS
Z.N.Djumaniyazova
University of Tashkent for Applied Science, Tashkent
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10439713
Key words:
linguistics, cognitive linguistics, gender, woman, femininity, modesty, generosity, wisdom
.
Abstract:
In this article, several proverbs from English and Uzbek with a female character were analyzed. It
artistically depicts the chastity, honor and femininity of English and Uzbek women.
Linguistics is a science about language, its social
nature, function, internal structure, classification,
rules
of
specific
languages
and
historical
development. The object of the science of linguistics
is the language, and it has been studied in different
periods, the characteristics and functions of the
language from different points of view. In the last
decade, cognitive linguistics has become one of the
most rapidly developing areas of the science of
language as a result of the new methodological
direction of knowledge, i.e., the widespread
development of research based on the cognitive
approach.
The emergence of cognitive linguistics is
associated with the work of American scientists in
the second half of the 1970s (Lakoff; Paivio; Taylor,
etc.). Russian linguists are also working successfully
in this field and have made a significant contribution
to the development of some of its theories (E.
Kubryakova; O. Kolosova; A. Baranov; R.
Frumkina, etc.). Many works on the interdependence
of language and cognition are found their place in
Uzbek linguistics as a new field (D.U. Ashurova, Sh.
Safarov, O. Yusupov). After all, cognitive linguistics
justified itself as a science.
It is known that cognitive linguistics mainly
deals with semantics, which is why it is also
described as "consistent semantics". As language
units serve to represent the objects and actions that
occur in the world, semantics connects the
relationships between language units in the real or
imaginary world. Linguistic semantics studies these
relations. While semantics as a branch of linguistics
answers the question of how a person can convey
various information using words and grammatical
rules, the focus of cognitive linguistics is not only
the "unity of language form and substance", but
more importantly "language and human unity", and
this is its difference from structural linguistics.
Accordingly, cognitive linguistics is closely related
to communicative pragmatics and discourse theory.
Cognitive science is also defined as a science that
studies the processes of consciousness and higher
perception based on the use of theoretical
information models.
One of the important features of cognitive
linguistics is that it allows us to see language in
relation to man, that is, his mind, knowledge,
thinking and understanding processes, in which the
main focus is on how language forms and any
linguistic phenomena are connected to human
knowledge and experience and how they are in the
human mind and focuses on how it is depicted.
Accordingly, it is no exaggeration to say that
cognitive linguistics continues the history of
interaction with the science of language and the
science of human psychology (A.A. Potebnya, G.
Shteinthal, W. Wundt). Because despite the fact that
linguistics and psychology are two different social
sciences that differ sharply according to their
methodology, the formation of language relies on
certain psychological mechanisms.
It can be said that cognitive linguistics is
closely related to psycholinguistics, if the cognitive
approach is one of the methods of explaining
language events using the theory of knowledge.
Because
"psycholinguistics
as
a
science
psychologically bases linguistic hypotheses (or, in
other words, the application of psychological
methodology to the theory of linguistics), while
cognitive linguistics bases psychological hypotheses
linguistically (determining their reality)."
O. Yusupov defines the tasks of cognitive linguistics
as follows:
1) to determine the role of language in the
emergence of human knowledge;
2) understanding the processes of categorization
(creating concepts and dividing them into types),
conceptualization
(creating
concepts)
and
nomination of the world and things in it;
3) to determine the relationship between the
conceptual system and the language system;
4) solving problems related to linguistics and
cognitive (conceptual) images of the world.
In our study, the fourth of the above-mentioned tasks
of cognitive linguistics, that issues related to
linguistic and cognitive images of the world, will be
considered from the perspective of gender research
in the phraseological system of the language. In this
work, we determine the specific social and cultural
characteristics of the concept of woman through the
theory of knowledge in the phraseological system of
the language, and we can confirm that linguistics is
inextricably linked with linguistics and cognitive
linguistics.
D. Kurtson also describes linguistics as a
branch of sociolinguistics: "Linguistics, a branch of
linguistics that is part of sociolinguistics...".
Although it has been a long time since the difference
in women's speech was noticed, research in this area
is still ongoing. We know that in linguistics, the
difference between women is noticeable not only in
the tone of voice, but also in the words they use a lot
in conversation. The word gender is used as a
scientific term in sociology, psychology, linguistics
and other fields to describe the place and difference
of women in society. The word gender is often used
in the biological and physiological field. In gender
linguistics, various related and unrelated features of
women's language are studied. Gender linguistics
(linguistic gender ology) is a scientific direction that
uses a linguistic concept that studies gender (socio-
cultural gender, understood as a traditional
construction, relatively autonomous from biological
sex) as part of interdisciplinary gender research.
The results of many researches in this field
can be seen in the following proverbs: “Three
women are four gossips. A house well-furnished
makes a woman wise. A woman's mind is in her
beauty. Woman's tongue wags like a lamb's tail. A
silent woman is a gift from God. A woman is like
the moon-some nights it is silver others gold”.
The mentioned proverbs describe situations typical
of women's speech (sharpness of her tongue,
talkativeness, variability, propensity for discussion,
her wisdom). All these examples cannot be said to
belong to all women in the world, most of them have
been formed as stereotypes.
Along with observations of traditional
methods of analysis in linguistics, interest in new
methods of analysis connecting it with sociology,
psychology and other sciences is growing. New
modern directions are emerging in linguistics related
to these methods of analysis. One of such directions
is linguo -gender ology. The source of research of
this science is the study of gender characteristics of
language, which includes two issues: differences and
specific characteristics of women's speech; in the
language system, attention is paid to language units
that express concepts related to femininity
In the study of gender issues in linguistics, all
forms of speech activity: written and spoken texts
can serve as research objects. There are many works
devoted to these issues in world linguistics. The
reason why discourse is given special importance in
the study of the language and gender problem is that
many phenomena conditioned by femininity signs,
including the characteristics of women's speech,
occur in speech. In the studies carried out in the
Uzbek language, the term discourse means more oral
text. In any interpretation, the discourse is
inextricably linked with the concept of the text. It
should be noted that in linguistics, the issue of the
relationship between the concepts of discourse and
text has been the cause of scientific debate. At this
point, the following opinions of linguist Sh. Safarov
are reasonable: "It is appropriate to study these two
phenomena that are being compared in the relation
of "hyperonym" - "hyponym". Discourse is a certain
type and series of human conscious activity, and the
text is a manifestation of it. The interpretation of the
category of discourse in such a broad sense,
generalizing content, is already recognized as a rule
for the communication system, other fields of
science interested in human conscious activity -
philosophy, sociology, psychology, cybernetics,
etc." It is not difficult to determine femininity in the
process of communication. At this point, it is
appropriate to dwell on some gender features of the
discourse.
When
talking
about
the
gender
characteristics of the discourse, the comparison of
lexemes used in women's speech is also of particular
importance.
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