Cultural Cognition in Uzbek Detective Fiction: The Role of Private Discourse

This article investigates the role of cultural cognition in shaping private discourse within Uzbek detective fiction. By analyzing how linguistic structures and narrative strategies reflect culturally influenced cognitive processes—such as collective reasoning, emotional decision-making, and gender-specific strategies. Drawing on cognitive linguistics and cultural studies, it examines the use of propositional, schematic, metaphorical, and metonymic models. The analysis underscores how Uzbek cultural values, such as collectivism and loyalty, shape narrative cognition, distinguishing it from Western detective fiction. The findings contribute to understanding the cultural dimensions of cognitive processes in literary discourse.