ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2022
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 1

Expression of ethnic and cultural identity in english and uzbek proverbs

1The second Year Master Degree Student, Bukhara State University, Bukhara, Uzbekistan Email id: madinasubhonova2@gmail.com

2Docent of the English linguistics, Department of Bukhara State University, Bukhara, Uzbekistan Email id: gadoyevamavlyuda59gmail.com

Online published on 10 March, 2022.

Abstract

This article is devoted to the expression of ethnic and cultural identity in English and Uzbek proverbs and sayings. We studied several folklore examples on different topics and analyzed the expression of nationality, ethnicity in two languages. We tried to find proper equivalents of proverbs from one language into another.

Keywords

Proverbs, Folklore, Nationality, Paremeology, Mentality, Cultural Identity, Linguaculturology