LINGUOCULTURAL FEATURES OF SPEECH BEHAVIOR OF RUSSIAN-UZBEK BILINGUALS
Keywords:
linguoculturology, bilingualism, speech behavior, Russian-Uzbek bilinguals, speech etiquette, culturogenderema, code-switching, politeness, contrastive linguistics, intercultural communication.Abstract
The article examines the linguocultural specificity of speech behavior of Russian-Uzbek bilinguals as a phenomenon situated at the intersection of two language systems and two cultural codes. The author argues that bilingual speech behavior cannot be adequately described through grammatical or lexical interference alone: it represents a synthesis of value orientations, communicative norms and culturally conditioned models of interaction inherited from both contact cultures. The paper outlines the conceptual framework of contrastive linguoculturology, introduces the notion of the culturogenderema as a unit of cultural-linguistic analysis, and identifies the principal domains in which Russian-Uzbek bilingual speech behavior manifests culturally specific features: forms of address, greeting and farewell formulas, strategies of politeness, expression of respect, family and gender-marked communication, and pragmatic code-switching. The findings contribute to the comparative study of speech etiquette in conditions of stable mass bilingualism in Uzbekistan.
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