Abstract
This article examines the linguocognitive modeling of the concept of “mental state” through a comparative analysis of English and Uzbek literary discourse. Within the anthropocentric paradigm, language is interpreted as a reflection of human cognition, emotions, and inner experiences. The study analyzes how mental states are verbalized at lexical, morphological, and syntactic levels, based on examples from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Abdulla Kadiri’s O‘tgan kunlar.References
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