The current study investigates cross-national pragmatic tendencies present in socio-political newspaper discourse in the United States and Uzbekistan. It explores how linguistic choices and pragmatic strategies are employed to influence readers’ perceptions, focusing on newspapers such as The New York Times and O’zbekiston Ovozi. The research identifies recurring pragmatic features, such as implicit meaning, presupposition, rhetorical questions, and modality. The comparative approach reveals culturally embedded patterns in media language use, emphasizing how political context, communicative intent, and audience expectations shape discourse. This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of how language is pragmatically utilized in different sociopolitical environments.

Media discourse, pragmatics, cross-cultural communication

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