This study explores the linguistic and cultural representation of joy and sadness in English and Uzbek. While emotions are universal to human beings, their verbal expression is shaped by cultural traditions, values, and communicative practices. By comparing idioms, metaphors, phraseological units, and ritualized expressions, this study identifies both similarities and differences in the conceptualization of happiness and grief. The findings reveal that English discourse emphasizes individuality, abstraction, and metaphorical imagery, while Uzbek discourse stresses collectivism, directness, and ritualized forms of emotional expression.
Hamidov Doniyor Sadikovich (Wed,) studied this question.