THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LEXICAL ECONOMY AND ITS EXPRESSION THROUGH STYLISTIC DEVICES IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK
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Keywords: lexical economy, stylistic devices, semantic compression, English, Uzbek, comparative stylistics, language economy.Abstract
Annotation. This article explores the theoretical foundations of lexical economy
and its realization through stylistic devices in English and Uzbek. Lexical economy is
understood as the ability of language to convey a maximum amount of information
with a minimum number of linguistic units. The study investigates the role of ellipsis,
metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, phraseological units, abbreviations, and conversion
as principal mechanisms of semantic compression. The research demonstrates that
despite belonging to different typological groups, English and Uzbek share a common
tendency toward concise and semantically dense expression. At the same time, the
structural realization of lexical economy is determined by the specific grammatical
organization of each language. English, as an analytic language, frequently relies on
conversion, abbreviation, and syntactic reduction, whereas Uzbek, as an agglutinative
language, achieves economy through productive affixation and contextual omission.
The findings confirm that stylistic devices perform not only expressive but also
cognitive and communicative functions by increasing semantic density and enhancing
pragmatic impact.
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