Abstract
This article examines metaphysical representations of the human inner world and their manifestation through emotional units in Uzbek and English languages. It discusses how linguistic expressions of emotions reflect cultural values, collective memory, and national cognition. By comparing conceptual metaphors, idioms, and culturally embedded emotional lexicon, the study demonstrates how each linguistic community conceptualizes psychological experience and how metaphysical thinking is encoded in language.
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