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Abstract
This article investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) and human translators render affective expressions in English–Uzbek translation. Translating emotions requires not only semantic accuracy but also pragmatic competence and cultural sensitivity. Drawing on emotion linguistics, pragmatics, and translation studies, the research compares AI-generated translations with human renderings of emotional expressions such as gratitude, empathy, anger, politeness, irony, and indirectness. The findings indicate that while AI excels in speed and lexical consistency, human translators outperform AI in preserving emotional nuance, pragmatic intent, and cultural appropriateness.
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