Intergenerational Communication in Uzbek and English Families: The Role of Age, Family Status and Communicative Distance

This article examines the pragmatic characteristics of intergenerational communication in Uzbek and English families with particular attention to age, family status and communicative distance. The study focuses on forms of address, requests, advice and disagreement between older and younger family members. The analysis demonstrates that age and family position influence linguistic choices in both languages, although these relations are expressed through different linguistic resources. Uzbek family communication makes productive use of kinship terms, the sen–siz distinction and age-related forms of address, while English relies more on personal names, modal constructions and contextual means of regulating interpersonal distance. The study argues that communicative relations between generations are not fixed but change according to family roles, topic, situation and the participants' knowledge and experience.