PSYCHOLINGUISTIC INTERPRETATION OF THE GENDER CONCEPT: LINGUISTIC CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PERCEPTION OF LITERARY TEXTS
Keywords:
gender concept, psycholinguistics, linguistic consciousness, literary text, character, sensory-perceptual representation, inner speech, emotional-axiological evaluation, gender stereotype, cognitive poetics.Abstract
This article examines the psycholinguistic realization of the gender concept in Uzbek literary texts and its relationship with linguistic consciousness, attention, sensory-perceptual representation, emotional-axiological evaluation, memory, inner speech, and the perception of literary characters. Gender meaning is interpreted not as a fixed and immutable set of psychological qualities, but as a context-dependent meaning formed through the interaction of a specific literary situation, a character's communicative behavior, and verbal and non-verbal signals. Selected passages from Said Ahmad's "Ufq", Qo'chqor Norqobil's "Osmon ostidagi sir", Ulug'bek Hamdam's "Uzoqdagi Dilnura", and Cho'lpon's "Kecha va kunduz" are analyzed to identify the psycholinguistic mechanisms involved. The findings show that laughter, crying, silence, facial expression, or firmness should not automatically be interpreted as stable gender markers; rather, their meaning is determined by context, the affective situation, plot development, and interpersonal relations between characters.
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