This article examines the communicative and stylistic characteristics of honorific forms in Uzbek and English from a comparative pragmalinguistic perspective. Drawing on politeness theory, speech etiquette, and face management frameworks, the study analyzes how respect and social relations are grammatically and stylistically encoded in both languages. The findings reveal that Uzbek employs a highly grammaticalized honorific system based on morphological and syntactic markers, whereas English relies on indirectness, modality, and discourse strategies. These differences reflect distinct cultural norms while serving similar pragmatic functions in communication.

Honorifics, politeness strategies, speech etiquette

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