Foregrounding is a linguistic and stylistic phenomenon that intentionally deviates from conventional language norms to create emphasis, aesthetic appeal, or emotional impact. This paper conducts a comprehensive contrastive analysis of foregrounding techniques in English and Uzbek, examining grammatical structures, lexical innovations, and stylistic devices in literary and media texts. The study reveals that English foregrounding frequently relies on syntactic rearrangements, phonetic patterns, and lexical creativity, whereas Uzbek employs morphological flexibility, proverbial parallelism, and culturally embedded metaphors. By comparing these strategies, the research highlights how linguistic typology and cultural context shape rhetorical expression. The findings contribute to cross-linguistic stylistics, offering insights into how different languages manipulate form and meaning for artistic and communicative effects.  

Foregrounding, deviation, parallelism

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