Pragmatic Equivalence of English Dialectal Units in Uzbek Translations of British Fiction

The paper investigates the problem of pragmatic equivalence in the translation of English dialectal implicit units into Uzbek. It argues that the dialectal node functions as a pragmatic act — a stance-taking device — rather than as a lexical item, and that equivalence must therefore be measured at the level of perlocutionary effect and social indexing, not at the level of formal correspondence. Through comparative analysis of source-text fragments and their Uzbek renderings, recurrent loss patterns are identified (neutralisation of social index, loss of humour, register flattening) and a set of equivalence-oriented techniques is proposed, including prosodic compensation, syntactic stylisation and the calibrated use of Uzbek colloquial markers. The results confirm that pragmatic equivalence is attainable, though always partially, and that its degree correlates with the translator's awareness of the implicit layer.