PRAGMATIC STRATEGIES OF NEGATIVE EMOTION VERBALIZATION IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK MEDIA DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Keywords:
Negative emotions; media discourse; pragmatics; English; Uzbek; mitigation; intensification; evaluation; verbalization.Abstract
This article examines pragmatic strategies through which negative emotions are verbalized in selected English and Uzbek media discourse. The study is grounded in authentic television, interview, podcast and social-media examples collected for a comparative PhD investigation. A qualitative discourse-pragmatic procedure identifies emotion domains, linguistic realization, pragmatic modification and communicative function. The analysis shows that negative affect is constructed not only by emotion lexemes but also by mitigation, intensification, metaphor, evaluative wording, phraseology and discourse markers. In the English material, conversational mitigation, gradation and indirect contextual loading are recurrent; in the Uzbek material, relatively direct nomination frequently combines with figurative and culturally salient evaluation. These are corpus-based tendencies rather than categorical properties of the languages.
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