CORPUS-BASED TRANSLATION OF GENDER CATEGORIES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND UZBEK: A COMPARATIVE TYPOLOGICAL AND PRAGMATIC STUDY
Abstract
This study investigates the translation of gender categories between English and Uzbek from corpus-based, typological, and pragmatic perspectives. Although English and Uzbek differ significantly in their grammatical and lexical representation of gender, the translation of gender-related expressions remains a challenging issue due to structural asymmetries, semantic shifts, and cultural factors. The research aims to identify translation strategies employed in rendering gender categories and to examine the extent to which semantic equivalence and pragmatic meaning are preserved across the two languages. The study adopts a corpus-based comparative methodology, utilizing authentic examples extracted from English and Uzbek corpora, parallel translation texts, and literary and media discourse. Corpus linguistic techniques, including concordance analysis, collocation analysis, and contextual interpretation, are combined with comparative typological and pragmatic approaches to evaluate translation patterns. The findings reveal that gender categories are translated through lexical substitution, contextual adaptation, explicitation, neutralization, and pragmatic reformulation, depending on linguistic and cultural contexts. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that typological differences between the two languages significantly influence translation choices and may lead to shifts in pragmatic meaning. The research contributes to corpus linguistics, translation studies, comparative linguistics, and gender linguistics by proposing an integrated analytical framework for investigating gender translation between typologically different languages.
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gender categories, corpus linguistics, translation studies, English–Uzbek translation, comparative typology, pragmatics, semantic equivalence, gender translation, corpus-based analysis, cross-cultural communication.How to Cite
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