ANTHROPONYMS AS CULTURAL CONCEPTS IN UZBEK AND ENGLISH: A CORPUS-BASED COMPARATIVE LINGUOCOGNITIVE ANALYSIS.

This thesis presents a comparative linguocognitive and corpus-based analysis of Uzbek and English anthroponyms evaluated as key cultural concepts. Personal names operate far beyond simple referential markers; they are structural units that store dense ethnocultural, historical, and socio-cognitive data. By leveraging representative corpus data from the National Corpus of Uzbekistan and the British National Corpus, this study systematically analyzes the structural, semantic, and cognitive frameworks underlying naming conventions in both linguacultures. The analysis delineates how Uzbek anthroponyms preserve explicit, transparent semantics tied heavily to protective, religious, and aspirational cultural codes. In contrast, modern English anthroponyms exhibit extensive de-semantization, shifting their primary cognitive function from descriptive literalism to allusive, historical, and aesthetic paradigms. The study applies a mixed-methods approach to isolate denotative, significative, and pragmatic components within the onomastic field, establishing a modern framework for anthropocentric Turkic-Germanic comparative linguistics.