Authorial Neologisms as a Marker of Individual Literary Style in Russian, Uzbek, and English Literary Discourse: A Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspective

The present study investigates authorial neologisms as one of the most productive linguistic mechanisms for constructing individual literary style in Russian, Uzbek, and English literary discourse of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The research focuses on the interaction between lexical innovation, stylistic identity, and literary representation, emphasizing how newly created lexical units contribute to the formation of artistic reality and conceptual meaning. Special attention is paid to the linguistic creativity of writers whose works demonstrate distinctive approaches to neological construction. Literary texts by Viktor Pelevin, Chingiz Aitmatov, James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, and Margaret Mitchell serve as the empirical basis of the analysis. The study examines word-formation patterns, stylistic functions, pragmatic effects, and sociocultural determinants that influence authorial lexical invention. The findings demonstrate that authorial neologisms function not merely as language innovations but as cognitive and artistic tools that express historical consciousness, ideological perspectives, national identity, and individual aesthetic vision.