REVEALING SOCIAL IDENTITY THROUGH DIALECT-SPECIFIC LEXICAL UNITS: A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH AND UZBEK
Abstract
This article provides a comparative analysis of the sociolinguistic characteristics of dialect-specific lexical units in English and Uzbek and their role in shaping and expressing social identity. The study is conducted on the basis of corpus linguistics and sociolinguistic approaches, using data from the British National Corpus (BNC), the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), and the Global Web-Based English (GloWbE) for English, as well as electronic texts, dialectological sources, and samples of authentic spoken discourse for Uzbek. The results of the study show that dialect-specific lexical units in both languages serve as important linguistic indicators of a speaker’s regional, social, and cultural affiliation. While dialect vocabulary in English is more closely associated with age and social group factors, in Uzbek it primarily functions to reinforce regional and cultural identity. The scientific novelty of the article lies in interpreting dialect-specific lexis as an active constructor of social identity and in applying a comparative corpus-based approach to English and Uzbek.
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sociolinguistics, dialectal lexis, social identity, corpus linguistics, English language, Uzbek language.How to Cite
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