Abstract
Mazkur maqola deintensifikatsiya kategoriyasining lingvistik tabiati va nazariy asoslarini tahlil qilishga bag‘ishlangan. Tadqiqotda ushbu hodisa semantik, kognitiv va pragmatik yondashuvlar asosida kompleks tarzda yoritiladi. Deintensifikatsiya ma’no intensivligining pasayishini ifodalovchi vositalar tizimi sifatida izohlanadi. Maqolada uning leksik (downtonerlar, hedging birliklari), sintaktik (modal konstruktsiyalar) va diskursiv darajalarda namoyon bo‘lish xususiyatlari tahlil qilinadi. Shuningdek, deintensifikatsiyaning kommunikativ-pragmatik funksiyalari, xususan, xushmuomalalik strategiyalari va epistemik ehtiyotkorlikni ifodalashdagi roli ochib beriladiReferences
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