The concept shame represents one of the most culturally loaded emotional constructs in human cognition, and it plays a central role in regulating social behavior, moral responsibility, and interpersonal communication. This study provides an expanded comparative examination of the lingo-cognitive and lingocultural characteristics of the concept shame in Uzbek and English, focusing on how speakers of these languages conceptualize shame at the level of mental representation, linguistic encoding, and culturally prescribed norms. Through the use of conceptual analysis, cognitive semantic interpretation, and cross-cultural comparison of linguistic and phraseological expressions, the research elucidates both universal psychological mechanisms of shame and highly culture-specific distinctions shaped by the Uzbek collectivist worldview and the English individualistic framework. The findings demonstrate that while English speakers primarily experience shame as an inner moral emotion related to personal responsibility, Uzbek speakers tend to understand uyat as a socially enforced construct closely tied to communal expectations, family honor, gender roles, and culturally regulated behavior.

Shame, uyat, lingo-cognitive analysis, linguoculture

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