THE LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF IMAGES OF NATURE IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK FOLK SONGS

Abstract

This article compares the lexical, grammatical and poetic means through which images of nature are expressed in English and Uzbek folk songs. The illustrative corpus includes the Uzbek ritual song “Boychechak”, references to “Binafsha” and stork-related songs, and the English traditional songs “The Cuckoo”, “It’s a Rosebud in June” and the harvest song “The Green Grass”. The analysis groups words for flowers, birds, seasons, weather and landscape, and examines tense, imperative and optative forms, address, repetition and personification. The findings suggest that nature in these songs functions not only as scenery but also as a linguistic means of connecting seasonal change with ritual action, work and communal memory.