Masharipov jahongir axmedovich conceptual analysis of the components of metaphor with the elements of mentality in english and uzbek

The topicality of the research work. 
As it is being paid great importance 
to teaching and learning of foreign languages, great number of researches have 
being done in this field. Our dissertation is dedicated to conceptual analysis of the 
components of metaphor with the elements of mentality in English and Uzbek, and 
their lexical-stylistic features. Metaphor is colorful device of a language. Either 
consciously or unconsciously all of us use a number of metaphors each day. It is 
used by ordinary people, used at the academic level at the same time. The most 
interesting thing is that we are not always aware of this phenomenon. The 
metaphor has been with human being since the genesis of mankind. And only in 
the vicinity of 5
th
century it began to be studied in rudimentary scope. The most 
discussed period of it was indeed 20
th
century. Metaphor has not lost its intriguing 
feature so far. It is now being investigated in deeper scale connected with mind. 
Scholars now are eager to know about why men use this or that metaphor, what 
inspires or triggers them to use metaphor and likewise issues. Metaphor was and is 
one of the most captivating and intriguing aspects of linguists. Therefore, its 
importance does not shrink and stay actually. 
The object of the research work:
metaphors with the elements of 
mentality in English and Uzbek (on the materials “A tree grows in Brooklyn” by 
B.Smith and “Dunyoning ishlari” by U.Hoshimov) 
The subject of the research work:
study of the meanings and 
interpretations of metaphors and their characteristics in English and Uzbek; 
conceptual analysis of mentality elements of metaphors in English and Uzbek, and 
their lexico-stylistic features 
The aim of the research work. 
To figure out discrepancy between 
traditional and conceptual metaphor. To find out how often metaphors (especially 
those with mentality elements) are used in speech (in the example of literary 

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* how metaphor affects to speech and what kind of metaphors are used 
frequently and why certain ones are used commonly in the English and the Uzbek 
languages. Moreover, to analyse them conceptually and categorize them based on 
the certain conceptions (like anger, love, etc.)To reach this aim we have